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THEATER

With text, movement, actors, sets.

Audience put in their place

by one of our members
20 June 201429 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, THEATER

Although both performances were created in very different ways, parallels can be drawn between 'Romeo and Juliet. To Romeo and Juliet' by Karina Kroft and 'Crastest Ibsen II - People's Enemy' by Sarah Moeremans / Noord Nederlands Toneel. Director Karina Kroft and actor Joep van der Geest in conversation about their relationship with a classic play and their audience.

Director Karina Kroft began by weaving together the texts of Shakespeare and Handke. She wanted Ro...

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Isabella Rosselini is endearing with her animal stuff. 4 missed opportunities in Bestiaire d'amour at @hollandfestival

by Wijbrand Schaap
20 June 201411 July 2016
3 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER

Every Holland Festival there is at least 1 performance which a lot of people wonder why it is programmed. This year, that honour falls to 'Bestiaire d'Amour' by and starring Isabella Rosselini. We take a moment to look for answers.

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7 confusing reasons why the stage version of The Fountainhead rattles, but you should still go.

by Wijbrand Schaap
19 June 201430 March 2022
5 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER

Topical again, now that Toneelgroep Amsterdam is reviving the play, my review from 2014. This week, the stage adaptation of The Fountainhead premiered. The book is terrible, the performance rattles, the actors win only narrowly. The content, however, creates even more confusion, which is why I won't stop you from going to see it. And Hans Kesting, of course. I put it this way.

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Wandering through the dunes with literature @Oerol Festival

by one of our members
18 June 201411 July 2016
6 min read
ACTUAL, LITERARY, THEATER

Literature is starting to conquer its place at Oerol, which makes sense because poetry and prose are everywhere. The landscape inspires writers and poets to write beautiful texts and at the same time, through literature, visitors take in the environment in a poetic way. What forms of literature can you encounter on Terschelling?

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Bitter tears, screaming loneliness. Kušej does Fassbinder @HollandFestival 2014

by Fransien van der Putt
16 June 201411 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL, FILM, Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER

Nice 'old-fashioned' Holland Festival: a special set-up that confronts the audience with the implications of their own position and viewing behaviour. And that's just as well with Fassbinder's 'Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant'. Melodrama was no stranger to the German theatre and film wizard. The bitter tears are of a fashion queen and her entourage, clinical is the setting, wafer-thin the story, and yet unusually exciting how this lady drama develops.

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Tis Pity! Holland Festival brings the best show to the smallest audience.

by Wijbrand Schaap
16 June 201430 March 2022
2 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER

Language is music. Sometimes we forget that. Then we think language is a way of conveying objective meanings. Kind of silly. Language is food for all the senses. No strumming is needed under that. That's pure opera without embellishments. The English-language performance 'tis Pity she's a whore' I saw at the Holland Festival yesterday proves that. Even if you don't understand the seventeenth-century phrases, it is a joy to listen to.

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Warhorse is almost perfect: 6 reasons to go. Or stay away.

by Wijbrand Schaap
15 June 201411 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER

Saturday, June 14, went off in a flood of evening gowns, dinner jackets, Dutch celebrities and Gooische Tanks War Horse premiered. A play about a war in which the Netherlands was neutral, and of which there are memorial stones in every village in the rest of the world. You can go and see it. Or not. We have listed six arguments.

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On M2M and genius theatre makers who completely miss the mark

by Daniel Bertina
13 June 201430 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Holland Festival, THEATER

One of the rules of thumb of contemporary theatre art reads as follows: There is no middle ground in a production with an insanely long title. Such a production is fantastic, or dies of its own pretensions. With Judson church is ringing in Harlem (made to measure) / twenty looks of paris is burning at the judson church (m2m), the latter is the case.

In 2012, I saw an earlier performance by dancer/choreographer Trajal Harrell, titled (M)imosa. A fascinating, disruptive and be...

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4 ways to quiet a room: Jelinek strikes at Holland Festival

by Wijbrand Schaap
11 June 20142 April 2022
3 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER

This year's trip will go to India and Nepal. Because that seemed nice to him. Visitors to the Dutch premiere of Jelinek's Die Schutzbefohlene were looking forward to the summer. Next year they would visit a friend in Vietnam. Little hassle to get a visa. As a white European, the whole world is yours. You can go anywhere. The man did not realise how privileged he was.

Then the hall lights went out and suddenly there were all these people on the stage without visas or residence permits....

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Legendary director Peter Brook (89): Theatre is the field given to me

by Wijbrand Schaap
13 May 20143 July 2022
15 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER

The Valley of Astonishment. Titles don't come much prettier than that of 'The Valley of Astonishment'. Theatre legend Peter Brook's tentative last play is coming to Amsterdam. The Holland Festival gave me and two journalists from Parool and NRC, respectively, the opportunity to talk to the already legendary director when he was alive. Pretty special, because the man who enchanted an entire generation of theatre-makers and audiences with performances such as the nine-hour Mahabharata in Avignon, is considered a deity among theatre connoisseurs and enthusiasts.

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Is Anne too big for reviews? 3 reasons why I find it hard to review Anne

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 May 201411 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, THEATER

Someone commented on Facebook that it looked a bit odd for a newspaper to hand out stars for a play based on The Diary of Anne Frank. Although I myself shudder to give out stars this early for a Godwin make, surely there is something to The Play and The Review. Indeed, reviews of The Play to The Diary seem superfluous. For how do you review such a play, with such a history? Isn't fuss about layering or no layering, adventurousness or no adventurousness in the direction even a little irreverent? So these are three issues, which led me to consider that maybe it shouldn't be possible at all. Anne review.

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Juliette Binoche plays at Toneelgroep Amsterdam

by Wijbrand Schaap
5 May 201411 July 2016
1 min read
ACTUAL, THEATER

Because Dutch culture the Dutch only notice when scoring abroad (also applies to football, by the way): Big news about the Netherlands' first company. National coach Ivo van Hove of Toneelgroep Amsterdam has appointed none other than Juliette Binoche snared for a lead role in a play.

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You may ask 1 question to theatre legend Peter Brook, what will you ask?

by Wijbrand Schaap
25 April 201430 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, THEATER

I will be talking to Peter Brook in Paris on 7 May 2014. For people who have studied theatre, this is something very special. The man once wrote a very well-organised and manageable booklet that is on the shelf of all theatre people: The Empty Space. But he was also the director of performances where more people attended than there were ever seats. In other words. At parties, daring or being able to say you have been to a performance at Les Bouffes Du Nord, or nine hours in ...

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Johan Simons receives 150,000 euros: 'I thought, that must be for Elsie'

by Wijbrand Schaap
17 April 201411 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, THEATER

This year's Prince Bernhard Culture Fund Prize goes to Johan Simons. At the announcement, in a meadow below Utrecht, the director was surprised: he suspected the prize was meant for his wife, Elsie de Brauw, widely regarded as one of the best actresses in the Netherlands and Belgium.

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Tom Waits exists thanks to Partch. 7 reasons to go see Delusion of the Fury. And listen.

by Wijbrand Schaap
14 April 201411 July 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL, VISUAL, Holland Festival, OPERA, SPECIALS, THEATER

'Harry Partch knew exactly what he was doing. He chose very specific bourbon bottles to fill in those 43 steps in the octave. So he made music that is very accessible, but also very elusive. And that's what good art should do.'

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'Already depressed when the sateh is finished.' Lineke Rijxman on 'The Freudjes' by Mugmetdegoudentand.

by Wijbrand Schaap
9 April 201430 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, THEATER

Update: performance The Freudjes has been postponed for now, until probably later this year.

'I think it's theatre. Psychoanalysis is theatrical.' Lineke Rijxman is fascinated by psychiatrists. Not because she walks through their doors herself, but because psychiatry is a rewarding subject for someone who makes theatre. That is why it had to happen: a play about Freud. But not about Sigmund himself, or his family. The play "The Freudjes (No Family)" is about three sisters i...

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Jeroen Willems (1962 - 2012)

by Wijbrand Schaap
3 December 20123 December 2017
4 min read
ACTUAL, In Memoriam, MUSIC, PODIUM ART, THEATER

The Netherlands' greatest artist is dead. Can happen. But can I then also curse heartily? Because Jeroen Willems is irreplaceable. As a journalist, you know the drill: of actors over 60, or of otherwise fragile stature, you have a necrootje ready. If you are well-known and meet the requirements, count on your friends and acquaintances to...

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Ivo van Hove is God. According to New Yorkers.

by Wijbrand Schaap
18 November 201230 May 2022
23 min read
For members only, PODIUM ART, THEATER

Anyway: while Amsterdam's city newspaper Parool was embarking on a campaign against the Dutch capital's city company at the behest of the Flemish publishing board, the same Toneelgroep Amsterdam was winning the hearts of New York audiences with a production of the already years-old 'Roman Tragedies', which a few here did not even like overall: http://www.wijbrandschaap.nl/2007/06/romeinse-tragedies-hf2007ta/

No sour sounds in America so far. This sam...

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Order of the Day renews theatre

by Wijbrand Schaap
5 September 201229 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, MEDIA, TELEVISION, THEATER

I did it just like that. Proclaimed a show as the most important theatre innovation for 20 years. That's daring. Even though I made the term a bit more vague in a subsequent tweet, because, yes, there has been quite a lot of innovation in recent years, left and right in theatres. So let's stick to 'the last few years'. And then...

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