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'He fears that the real thing may have come along a hundred times, but he missed it.'
'Exactly. And how old are you?'
'Twenty.'
'Well...'
Het Dodo Internationale Keuze-journaal, aflevering 2: Wijbrand Schaap kwam, zag en werd overwonnen door Kris Verdoncks zeven installaties over benarde mensen. Het had moeten eindigen met verschrikkelijke knallen, een ingeblikt vuurwerk op een paar meter van de toeschouwers. Maar dat mag dus in Nederland niet meer sinds Enschede. En al helemaal niet met Belgisch vuurwerk. Theatermaker, installatiekunstenaar en videojockey Kris Verdonck belandde…
In suits, wearing animal masks, five actors pose on stage. They represent a bear, rabbit, deer, rooster and monkey. From this 'freeze', they start making animal noises and moving around. A rhythmic performance follows. Fascinated, but confused, the audience watches the alienating dance. What do these animals have to do with the war in Iraq anyway? Just when you start to wonder if you are in the right audience, the actors take off their masks and answer: 'Have you ever wondered what the war in Iraq has meant to the animals there? We never hear anything about them in newspapers or on TV.'
A new day, so new chances to find the Fringe's greatest gem. Today, I am taken from Theatre Bellevue into a nearby alley. Suddenly I see her lying there. A junk, like there are more walking around in Amsterdam. I prefer to walk around it quickly. Afraid of smelling them or being accosted. Metro, a piece of...
Zo’n koele nazomeravond als donderdag 9 september 2010 is een perfecte avond voor de try- out van het locatiestuk ‘Natives‘ van acteursgroep Wunderbaum. Heldere lucht, mild optrekkende herfstkou en nagenoeg windstil. Locatie: een moerassig grasveld tussen twee verlaten woonblokken in de Rotterdamse wijk Pendrecht. Ooit gebouwd vanuit de naoorlogse idealen van familiegeluk, gemak en bereikbaarheid, maar al snel te benauwd, vergrijzend en…
In my search for the gem of the Fringe, I stumbled upon two musicals at the Rose Theatre on Wednesday night. At the Fringe Festival, anything goes, yet I was surprised by Christiane by F*K Theatre. In this musical, young people sink to the bottom of society. They drink and blow. Everyone lives in their own little world. Main character Christiane falls in love with an addicted boy and so also comes into contact with the dark sides of the drug scene. You expect to see the raw sides of this dark world in a story like this, but from the first song Christiane far too well behaved. It reminds me of a feel good-school musical. Eight neat boys and girls sing about 'a trip with friends around you'. They do this so sweetly and in harmonious harmony singing that what you hear and see is totally inconsistent with the story.
Nik van den Berg is undoubtedly someone to keep an eye on. In theatre Bellevue, he gives a parody of a rock star in a bizarre act. 'Is this it,' I think for a moment, but it soon becomes clear how cleverly Van den Berg shapes this stage beast in a fur coat. In an unintelligible language, he plays a number of songs, meticulously portraying the mannerisms and gestures of a great rock artist.
Slowly he takes a sip of tea, takes another drag of his cigarette, drops the ash into his tea and then, in utmost concentration, throws the entire cigarette into the tea. A soundtrack starts, then Nik starts the concert with his electric guitar. The songs in NIK©#2 be about life, its problems and difficulties. But it could just as easily be about making a cheese sandwich. Van den Berg's timing is peerless, as is his empathy. This certainly worked on my chuckles, though there will be those who expected more from it.
'Butt-fucking at extra cost.' 'Do they also do blow jobs without a condom?' 'That one sucked my cock once and then she was nauseated all night. In the morning she puked in my bed.' Constantly they do suggestive dances and constantly they look into the room, with fixed smiles that are somewhere between amused and sneaky. The six actors of About Animals are challenging and relentless. Susanne Kennedy's direction of Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek's play is unprecedentedly bleak and arrives as a punch in the gut.
Jelinek's wrote a text about prostitutes and their clients, partly based on eavesdropping tapes from an Austrian escort agency, in which the men talk about women as if they were animals, or more precisely, like farmers talk about their cattle. In her direction, Kennedy places great emphasis on the viewer's gaze. 'The woman is being watched and is always an object, the man is watching and is the subject. Looking is not innocent,' She said in an interview. The three men, in foul light blue show suits, talk over the women; the women, in dresses on which little subtle emphasis is placed on their nipples and crotch, obligingly talk after them. They look at us defiantly, making us complicit in the humiliating situation.
When the 30th edition of the Netherlands Film Festival kicks off on 22 September, the first Golden Calf will be awarded to Rolf Orthel. This was announced by festival director Willemien van Aalst at a press conference today.
Producer and director Orthel receives this award for his special merit for Dutch film culture. In 1975, he made a name for himself with the impressive documentary A semblance of doubt, about the prisoners and guards of Auschwitz and Westerbork. As a producer, he often committed to difficult projects by young makers. The documentary he produced Bastøy, about a Norwegian prison island, will premiere this festival.
Net nu bekend werd dat het musicalproductiehuis M-Lab in financiële nood verkeert, komt er een handreiking van de Nederlandse theatercritici. De jaarlijkse Prijs van de Kritiek gaat namelijk naar het laboratorium dat musicals produceert die er bijna altijd toe doen. We citeren het juryrapport: Een laboratorium is er niet alleen voor enigszins wereldvreemde wetenschappers die op de vierkante millimeter aan het priegelen…
She has just returned from a long holiday in her native Norway and, although many Norwegians find Ibsen boring these days, she herself loves his work. Maren Bjorseth is a third-year directing student at the AHK. Her Dutch is flawless; it is hard to believe she has only lived here for two years. Maren is one of four directing students chosen to take a master class from German director Thomas Ostermeier, artistic director of Schaubühne Berlin. Last year, the Stadschouwburg showed his Hamlet (starring a nasty, rather fat Hamlet) and in December, Ostermeier will direct Ibsen's Spoken at Toneelgroep Amsterdam.
The master class is a collaborative project of TF with the AHK and actors from ACT. It is the first day of school for the students and, as Maren says, they were immediately thrown into the deep end: 'It was very short and intensive, we worked from ten to three and Thomas Ostermeier came to watch twice. So it really is a work in progress.'
"I am fifty-eight." Plumply, Saskia Lemming (Oda Spelbos) reveals her biggest secret to husband and jaded folk singer René Lemming (Peter Bolhuis). He married her 12 years ago, thinking she was a young blonde. In turn, he reveals that he actually wrote 'You are the cream of my crop', his number one hit, for another woman. The bomb bursts on reality show 'The Lemmings'. Or rather: on stage at De Balie, where Hadewich Minis, Peter Bolhuis, Oda Spelbos and Yorick Zwart compete in Night guests. A three-hour improvisational 'jam session'.
The room is lit in red. This creates a shadowy atmosphere as you might expect at a nightclub. The music starts playing and from the stairs a young lady in a snappy outfit comes down. She serves pieces of sausage and plays with the crowd. She introduces herself as Lolita. A man in the front row may unbutton her zip. She...
Door Willem Jan Keizer
Rotterdam – De vijftiende editie van het Gergjev Festival is vrijdagavond in bijzijn van Hare Majesteit de Koningin in concertgebouw de Doelen officieel van start gegaan met een concert van het Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest onder leiding van Valeri Gergjev. Hoewel het festival zich afspeelt op een kleine twintig locaties in de stad – niet alleen in de Doelen maar ook in de Laurenskerk, het conservatorium, museum Boijmans van Beuningen en tal van andere onverwachte locaties – is het festival in de stad nagenoeg onzichtbaar.
"We are artists. Acting is a vocation. Not everyone understands that. Sometimes it's a lonely existence." Understanding, almost motherly, Shelley Mitchell addresses a group of Dutch actors at De Balie. The American actress and founder of The Actors Centre of San Francisco introduces them to 'method acting' during a three-day master class. Not pretending, but becoming one with your character. A way of acting that has won many famous actors an Oscar. Think of Robert De Niro, Juilette Binoche, Al Pacino and Kate Winslet.
Hannah and Martin by Mugmetdegoudentand is not only a heartwarming performance, played by one phenomenal actress and one inimitable theatre personality, it is also a brainteaser. Trouw reviewer and theatre scholar Robbert van Heuven felt challenged to write a short essay in response to this performance.
Het was een prachtig idee, maar het dreigt nu al, halverwege de dag, aan datzelfde succes ten onder te gaan. #askacurator, De twitter-actie van meer dan driehonderd musea van over de hele wereld, waarbij internetgebruikers vragen kunnen stellen aan museumdirecties, heeft te lijden onder een aanval van viagra-, porno- en andere onzinverkopers. Immers, dat type internetondernemer zoekt uit welke onderwerpen…
Geluidsopname hier te beluisteren!
U hoort achtereenvolgens Axel Rüger, directeur van het Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, die reageert op de door VVD-er Mark Harbers geponeerde stelling dat de kunstwereld niet ondernemend genoeg is. Daarop volgt een reactie van oud cultuurwoordvoerster van het CDA Nicolien van Vroonhoven (door presentator Twan Huys consequent Nicolien van Vroemhoven genoemd) en oud NNT-acteur Boris van der Ham, nu cultuurwoordvoerder van D66.
Indeed, the name Xynix was somewhat outdated. And since, thanks to the efforts of its own company and Yo! Opera, which started as a youth opera festival, opera nowadays turns out to be suitable for young people too, a more adult name is appropriate: Holland Opera. The company settled in Amersfoort in a former company building near the railway station: De Verensmederij. The building, after a renovation, is...
Dan moet je net Twan Huys hebben. De presentator van Nova die in een paar schoolmeestervragen alle verkiezingsambities van Job Cohen om zeep wist te helpen. Hij zal zondag 29 augustus dezelfde truc kunnen gaan uithalen met een paar linkse politici en kunstbobo’s in het traditionele Uitmarktdebat in Paradiso.
‘In dit museum hemelen we het landschap zo vaak op, dat we nu eens de destructie, de ontreddering en de dreigende verandering van het landschap wilden laten zien.’ Volgens Han Steenbruggen, directeur van Museum Belvedere in Heerenveen-Oranjewoud, werd het tijd voor expositie die toont wat oorlog, natuurrampen en klimaatverandering met het landschap doen: ‘Met deze tentoonstelling reflecteren en reageren we…
The destructive power of war and hatred
Writer Wajdi Mouawad (b. 1968) fled his native Lebanon at the age of nine. At the time, a brutal civil war had been raging there for years. Together with his family, he ended up in Canada via France.
There, he develops into an internationally renowned playwright. His work is now performed all over the world. The Ro Theatre introduced Mouawad to the Netherlands for the first time this theatre season.
Director Alize Zandwijk chose the play Fires and puts on a bold and convincing version. Assisted by a talented cast of actresses and actors. You see the mother Nawal Marwan and her twins Jeanne and Simon. Nawal is dying.
1 september is het ‘Askacurator-dag’. Nu al meer dan honderd musea in nu al veertien landen zetten die dag hun curator aan de computer om vragen van internetgebruikers te beantwoorden. Het is een primeur. Nog nooit eerder was zo’n vragenuurtje wereldwijd te volgen, en nog nooit eerder kregen internetgebruikers toegang tot de mensen achter musea als het Tate Modern, Van…
By Leo Bankersen
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, de verrassende Gouden Palm-winnaar van dit jaar, krijgt komend weekend zijn eerste Nederlandse vertoning op het nieuwe festival World Cinema Amsterdam. De jury van Cannes had met deze keuze zelfs onder critici enig rumoer veroorzaakt. Want was dit geestenverhaal van de Thaise cineast met de onuitsprekelijke naam nu een saaie en obscure film, of juist een cinematografische hoogstaand meesterwerk?
De Dodo heeft zijn vuurdoop gehad. We weten inmiddels wat het in de basis inhoudt, en dus ook wat er te verbeteren valt. en natuurlijk zullen er nog anderen zijn met nog meer suggesties. Dat gaan we allemaal meenemen in onze tentjes deze maand juli, daar gaan we over denken en slapen en dan gaan we met de nieuwe inzichten…
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