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Reading theatre yourself. The best way to learn about theatre.

There is one thing almost as much fun as going to see a play. According to some, it is even more fun than going to see a play: reading a play yourself. And then not by yourself, but with a few others. That you divide the roles and start reading aloud. With a cup of tea, coffee or a glass of wine on the side.... 

Self-employed: you don't have to be able to do everything on your own, seek career guidance!

Following the exploration of the labour market in the cultural sector made by the Social and Economic Council (SER) and the Council for Culture last month, there was a lot of attention on the low earning self-employed in the cultural sector. Promising headlines such as "Everyone gets paid except the artist" (NRC) and "It's a matter of waiting every month to see if I earn enough" (Volkskrant) could account for recognition... 

Contemporary trends in theatre and performance at Something Raw Festival 2016

Three mongols playing Mongols. Dschingis Khan, the opening performance of Something Raw, is provocative and consequential. With this performance by German theatre collective Monstertruck, or the also Berlin-based Man Power Mix by Sheena Mcgrandles and Zinzi Buchanan, the festival Something Raw lives up to its name. Something Raw is a festival in which Amsterdam theatres Frascati, De Brakke... 

Holland Festival 2016: urgent, challenging and inviting

Never before has the Holland Festival placed itself at the centre of society as it is today. The 2016 programme is steeped in the turbulent times in which we live. The Netherlands holds the presidency of the European Union this spring. Artistic director Ruth Mackenzie has taken this fact unflinchingly to give 'Europe' a wide place in the programming. In presenting... 

Stefan de Walle and Joris Smit (Kurt van der Elst photo)

The reviewer, for anyone whose flesh is occasionally weak

Wie een historisch theaterstuk geloofwaardig naar het heden wil verplaatsen, kan maar beter radicaal te werk gaan, moet regisseur Theu Boermans gedacht hebben. En wie zijn bewerking van Nikolaj Gogols De Revisor bij het Nationale Toneel ziet, kan niet anders dan hem gelijk geven. Met verwijzingen naar asielzoekers, kleedhokjesgluurders, dataspionage en subsidiefraude lijkt het stuk gisteren geschreven. Toch blijft Boermans… 

Van Veen (vvd), Pechtold (d66) and Monasch (pvda) during the culture budget debate

We were read in 2015: 300,000 visitors, a total of 10,000 hours of reading time.

Tijd voor ons succeslijstje. In 2015 trokken we 60.000 bezoekers meer dan in 2014. Dat is iets om trots op te zijn. Een website die zich richt op de verhalen die de bestaande media de klein vinden, en dan zulke cijfers. Dat we die 300.000 bezoekers trokken is één, dat ze gemiddeld 2 en een halve minuut per verhaal besteedden,… 

The 10 theatre performances you wish you had seen in 2015

Although the supply has been declining for years, there are still more new shows than a person can see. So nobody sees everything, everybody misses a lot, which was the case in 2014. But these performances no one would have wanted to miss, even if two of them were not even seen in a theatre. And no dance, for that our partner was dance audiences this year too. #1... 

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Aluin speelt “1600, Slag bij Nieuwpoort”: veelbelovend begin van historische serie

Vandaag werd bekend dat de sinds vijf jaar heropgeleefde Gijsbrecht-traditie wegens gebrek aan subsidie weer stopt. Jammer natuurlijk, al hoeven we ook niet zo hard te rouwen om het einde van deze Amsterdamse gewoonte, die sinds 1638 bestaan heeft. Het stuk is immers totaal onspeelbaar, historisch volledig naast de feiten en al-met-al een nogal pretentieuze weergave van de geschiedenis van… 

Firma Mes - BOT (photo by Joris Jan Bos)

BOT by Firma MES: delightful drama for laughers and thinkers

'KUT TONEEL' has been spray-painted over BOT's poster. Another features penises and a clown's nose. Does Firma MES' new show arouse so much aggression? In any case, the young theatre company from The Hague promises us a play about "unkind people". But that doesn't quite pan out. On the flat floor of Theater aan... 

Theatersector: “Gemeenten, stop met bouwen van schouwburgen!”

Altijd fijn als iemand een commissie instelt die een oplossing moet bieden voor alle problemen. De Nederlandse theatersector heeft dat een paar maanden geleden gedaan. Onder leiding van oud-minister Guusje Ter Horst hebben Rinda den Besten (oud-wethouder Utrecht), Sadik Harchaoui (Forum) en Ryclef Rienstra (VandenEnde Foundation) onderzocht wat er allemaal beter kan in de relatie tussen het theater en het… 

The five shows you must see in December

The National Opera, Hänsel und Gretel (opera) It is the best-known fairy tale opera of all time. Not surprisingly, as Humperdinck's adaptation of Hansel and Gretel is overtly rooted in folk music as in almost Wagnerian orchestration. It was bound to be a success. Richard Strauss conducted the world premiere; Amsterdam features International Opera Award Winner Lotte de Beer's version. She moves... 

Hilversum municipality closes Achterom Theatre

De voorstelling ‘Bed & Breakfast’ van Debby Petter in Theater Achterom in Hilversum was net afgelopen. Directeur Gerlofke Hekelaar sprak het publiek toe, want het was de allerlaatste voorstelling geweest. Na 45 jaar houdt Stichting Theater Achterom op te bestaan. Weer een theater dat ten onder gaat door de bezuinigingen in de culturele sector. Maar is geldgebrek wel de enige… 

In the theatre, all fear disappears

Ik heb even getwijfeld of ik wel verslag zou doen van de theaterworkshop die maandag 9 november, in het kader van Dancing on the Edge, door Koon Theatre aan Syrische vluchtelingen werd aangeboden. Tijdens de workshop bereiden de vluchtelingen een korte presentatie voor die vrijdag 13 november, voorafgaand aan de theatervoorstelling Above Zero, in Stadsschouwburg Utrecht wordt getoond. De reden… 

New: a Blab with playwright Nassim Soleimanpour.

Next week sees the start of festival Dancing on the Edge. Unlike its name suggests, this festival, with performances in The Hague, Amsterdam, Utrecht and Rotterdam, is not only about dance, but also about film, theatre and politics. The 'Edge' it is about, the festival looks for in its theme: an urgent artistic dialogue with the Middle East. More needed now than... 

Loïc Perela and Jan Martens: As a spectator, you are finally faced with a question again

Zoals ik in mijn eerdere artikel over de Nederlandse Dansdagen schreef, won choreograaf Loïc Perela dit jaar de Prijs van de Nederlandse Dansdagen Maastricht. Het leverde hem 12.000 euro op om in zijn nieuwe project HASHTAG te steken. De toekenning van de prijs heeft sommige eerdere winnaars op weg geholpen (Monique Duurvoort, Joost Vrouenraets, Erik Kaiel, Muhanad Rasheed, Joeri Dubbe,… 

Liesbeth Gritter maakt ‘doorgecomponeerde’ popmusical op basis van Top 2000

“It’s all right.” in hoeveel liedjes van de Top 2000 komt die zin voor? Te veel om op te noemen. Dan nu dus de opdracht al die verschillende “It’s allright”’s te zingen in de melodie waarin elk publiek ze zal herkennen. De vier spelers in ‘Total Eclipse of The Heart’ van Theatergroep Kassys vullen op die manier een dik uur… 

Inequality and exploitation: from Genesis to today

At the Gala van het Nederlands Theater, she won the Colombina 2015 for best female contributing role, in Genesis. From this week, Antoinette Jelgersma, actress with the Nationale Toneel, plays in Ronald Schimmelpfennig's The Golden Dragon. From biblical history to life anno now - but there are more similarities than you might think. Jelgersma sits relaxed 

Berlin plays Tagfish, poetic documentary theatre about emptiness, and more emptiness

From today, the documentary performance Tagfish tours the Netherlands. The Belgian theatre collective Berlin has been making finely crafted theatre installations since 2004, playing on the border of documentary and fiction, television and theatre, current affairs and eternity. Tagfish is ostensibly about the perils surrounding the redevelopment of a piece of wasteland near Essen. Die Zeche Zollverein already had a monumental... 

The six shows you must see in October

Opera2Day, Mariken in de tuin der lusten (opera) The young The Hague company Opera2Day produces one splendid performance after another. But at the same time it does not rest on all its laurels, opting for adventure by presenting an entirely new opera together with the Nationale Toneel. At the centre is Mariken van Nieumeghen, the girl "who lived with the devil for seven years", the music is by Calliope Tsoupaki and... 

240 Pubers stil krijgen bij Shakespeare? Een gebruiksaanwijzing.

Veel theatermakers smeken heimelijk om de invoering van lijfstraffen voor scholieren met CKV. Scholieren met CKV zijn er namelijk op uit om het leven van acteurs te verwoesten. Ze worden daarin bijgestaan door ongeïnteresseerde docenten, die op hun vrije avond meer moeite doen om in de smaak te vallen bij hun pupillen dan bij de aanbieders van cultuur. Als compromis gelden… 

Eline Vere's wrong choices

Who has not read the book before, in Dutch at secondary school? Eline Vere, Louis Couperus' debut novel, is one of the classics of Dutch literature and was on the reading list for a long time. The novel, which appeared in 1888 as a serial in daily newspaper Het Vaderland, tells the story of Eline Vere, a 23-year-old woman from a well-to-do family, who longs... 

Matthijs Rümke (1954 - 2015): inspired and committed theatre talent will not go to waste

'Young people can very well decide for themselves where they want to go or not go. And it just so happens that most of the time it is not to the theatre. So what? That will come naturally. Young people make their own choices, and that more often includes a house party than a play. Dragging them inside is counterproductive. And above all, no compulsory book-list performance,... 

My Fringe 2015 in 3 performances

Those who do not want to open the theatre season in 'Black Tie' and with a gala would do well to go to the Fringe Festival. Already in its tenth year, the festival is bouncing in all directions, this year with 80 performances. Unselected, untamed and unjudged, as they call it themselves. In other words, sometimes you see something wonderful and sometimes you... 

The figures are in. And they don't say anything at all.

We had already announced it. This period is all about positive framing by the arts sector. Good news has to be spread, although people don't really know why. After all, there are no shareholders to be kept happy, only concerned art lovers. Anyway. On Wednesday 9 September, NRC journalist Daan van Lent presented the result of an investigation into the... 

Regelzucht van wantrouwige overheid treft creatieve sector in het hart

Het is het best zichtbaar in de podiumkunsten. De laatste tijd verschijnen er opvallend veel vacatures voor ‘zakelijk leider’ in de cultuursector. We hebben tijdens het theaterfestival eens wat oren te luisteren gelegd, en dan hoor je wat. Openlijk reageren wil niemand, daarvoor zijn de belangen te groot en de reputaties te kwetsbaar. We vatten het daarom hier maar globaal… 

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