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Few actors can portray timidity as aptly as Jan-Paul Buijs. With his wonderful Circus Treurdier, he made a catchy performance that anyone who has something against big mouths should enjoy. Especially at chat show tables and on Twitter, but also with the incessant smattering of columns in the Volkskrant; the big mouths of the betwetervolk exert a power that you...
We can already chalk up Angélique Kidjo as one of the most disarming appearances at the 2022 Holland Festival. The Benin-born singer is this year's associate artist, together with German director Nicolas Stemann. On Wednesday 9 March, she performed as a commanding speaker at the press conference with which the Holland Festival opens its public relations offensive each year. It was a...
The cultural field, like everyone else, is deeply shocked by developments in Ukraine. We are deeply concerned about the impact of the large-scale hostilities in Ukraine on the people of the country. To show solidarity and to express sympathy and support, the cultural field is organising the #♥rtforUkraine campaign next weekend 4, 5 and 6 March 2022 with...
Tijdens de aankomende Makersdag op 7 maart in Het Huis Utrecht presenteert de Utrechtse Lichting zich, een groep Utrechtse theatermakers die tijdens de pandemie is afgestudeerd. De omstandigheden waarin deze makers hun eerste stappen in het werkveld hebben moeten zetten, waren in coronatijd zwaar. HKU Theater, Theater Kikker en Het Huis Utrecht bieden deze theatermakers daarom gezamenlijk de mogelijkheid om…
Wat betekent het om als collectief opera te maken? En wat betekent het om dat op een inclusieve manier te doen? In samenwerking met De Nationale Opera maakt Asko|Schönberg ruimte vrij voor experiment, zowel op het podium als in de repetitiestudio. Die ruimte is bedoeld voor onderzoek naar nieuwe werkvormen met een collectief karakter. Uit deze samenwerking komt in de…
Susannah Elmecky and Emma Remmelts were in the third year of the Utrecht School of Theatre when Covid struck. Now they have both graduated and started careers on stage. In this podcast, they tell how they experienced the time of lockdowns. Also joining us is Victorine Plante, director of theatre group Aluin, where Susannah Elmecky is now playing a beautiful role in...
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz. Remember that name. A writer who left us only two books, and whose life history reads like a twentieth-century horror novel. He wrote, in 1939, three years before his death by a torpedo in the Indian Ocean, 'The Man Who Took Trains', under his English pseudonym John Grane. This book, published in 2018 in the original German...
Giving up a loved one poisons bodies, which then repel each other. Is there consolation for pain from cruelty? About a thousand children under 20 die every year, most of them babies. And 600 people die in traffic, thankfully far fewer than before, but more since 1945 than in the Holocaust. There are no collective commemorations for it, bereaved families often suffer in...
STIP-theaterproducties en Plein Theater presenteren de gehele voorjaarsvakantie de jeugdtheatervoorstelling Micro… de dingen komen in opstand (7+). In deze fantasievolle en humoristische voorstelling worden alledaagse objecten leven in geblazen. Ze krijgen stemmen en gevoelens en gaan in fel protest. In het theater zijn dagelijks tal van extra bonusactiviteiten die kinderen voor en na de voorstelling kunnen beleven. Over de voorstelling…
From this week, try-outs of Poison, about an ex-couple who lost a child, are playing. After the premiere on 19 February in Leiden, as many as 70 performances will follow throughout the country. Actor Stefan de Walle is ready for it. The wonderful play Gif by Lot Vekemans has been performed in 21 shows since its premiere in 2009 at NTGent under Johan Simons,...
We like to play by the rules. That's quite OK if you're driving through a historic city centre in a tractor or truck combination, for instance, but it gets tricky when the rules stop obeying themselves one day. The actors of the rather physical theatre group Bambie, Paul van der Laan, Jochem Stavenuiter and Tessa Jonge Poerink, have worked with...
Een dag als alle andere. Gewoon, onderweg. Naar je werk. Naar huis. Je kent het wel. Je kent de weg, de auto, het is rustig. Geen tegenliggers, vrijwel geen zijwegen… Je ontspant achter je dashboard. Zo’n dag dus, als allerlei andere. Tot dat bericht, dat ogenblik… dat alles verandert. Voor haar en voor hem en vooral: voor altijd. SMART is een…
Belgian composer Stefan Prins rattles the conventions of musical practice with his innovative approach. His brand new inhabit_inhibit is a visionary work, based on the ideas of Timothy Morton, in which man's loss of control over his environment is made audible and tangible in a penetrating way. To do so, Prins uses spatially arranged instruments, electronics and feedback loops. Follow the news,...
With the performance Krant, Dutch playwright Joeri Vos of De Veenfabriek aims to criticise the major Belgian newspaper operators in the Netherlands. But it also paints an unflattering picture of journalism. Vos, he revealed beforehand, has serious concerns about the independence of news supply. After all, Dutch dailies such as AD, Telegraaf, Volkskrant and NRC, as well as many...
In terms of religion, we are badly off with a single supreme and omniscient god who is also Love. Theologians and philosophers have therefore been earning a fat living for a couple of decades explaining all the misery in the world where God is only love. No. Then the classical Greeks. With them, free will ruled. Not...
Sometimes I dream of a subsidy system where artists can actually carry out their wild plans all the way, to the extreme. Or, indeed, are obliged to do so. That, for example, if you make a musical, you actually have to put a live band on stage, and are not allowed to use a studio recording. And that you then have to pay money for that...
Beste Bibliotheek Zuid-Kennemerland, graag solliciteer ik naar de functie ‘programmamaker Cultuur & Sociaal Domein’ die je publiceerde op de website ‘Culturele Vacatures‘. Ik ben namelijk een enorme aanhanger van het idee dat een bibliotheek zich zo min mogelijk moet associëren met boeken. Daar walmen de stofwolken je immers al direct van tegemoet. Jullie wisten natuurlijk ook allang dat een boekenkast…
Nobody understands yet why the theatres, museums and concert halls have to stay closed, while shops and contact professions are back in full swing. And rightly so: we all want a normal life again, going to the movies together, dancing at a cool concert, and strolling past art in a museum. We need relaxation. However, there is also a downside to this...
It all goes into effect only in 2023, at the earliest, but the first gusts of fresh wind blowing through the Performing Arts Fund are stirring the treetops. Under new director Viktorien van Hulst, the Fund wants to put an end to the many subsidy schemes that in recent years, under the guise of 'customisation', have become a bureaucratic jungle...
In honour of David Bowie's 75th birthday on 8 January 2022, the long-awaited album "TOY" will be released on 6×10-inch vinyl, cassettes and a 3 CD set a day before. In fact, this previously unheard album is part of the Brilliant Adventure boxset, which fans have been able to buy for 150 euros since November 2021. Is this a long-awaited sign from the afterlife, or...
Het weekend van vrijdag 7, zaterdag 8 en zondag 9 januari 2022 wordt een bijzonder theaterweekend ondanks de lockdown, want dan gaat Maas theater en dans twee bestaande voorstellingen én een unieke Peuterpersconferentie live uitzenden. De Grote Red Je Reet Show (6+) en Lampje (8-108 jr) zouden in de kerstvakantie meerdere keren spelen voor publiek, maar spelen in plaats daarvan…
The opening images of West Side Story (2021) already tell a whole story. It is contained in a few frames. A billboard showing a grandiose new housing project. The camera glides past it almost casually as we glide over rubble of a New York slum, not with the characteristic fire escapes along the facade, as in the first film adaptation (1961) of this 1957 musical theatre piece,...
Pure panic and existential angst: that's the picture you get when you approach makers in the arts personally about the effects of trickle down (the trickle down of corona funding from the government to those makers). The Creative Coalition may be making a fist for them, talking to the minister about it, the institutes debating it, but the makers are silent....
Patricia Goduto (37) stond begin deze eeuw op het podium in grote shows van Stage Entertainment toen een oud jeugdtrauma opspeelde en haar in een jaren durende psychose stortte. Haar leven veranderde onherroepelijk, ze raakte verslaafd aan medicijnen en alcohol en werd ongeneeslijk verklaard door haar behandelaars. Nu staat ze alweer een paar jaar op de planken, genezen van haar…
Creating a character you really feel involved with as an audience is what dance maker Sandra Kramerová is rock solid at. Her solo performance Majka drags me along from the start. But precisely because she performs her choreography so strongly, I am left with the feeling afterwards that I am missing something. That's a wonderful experience. It's not going well...
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