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The Back Door, publicity image. Photo: Jan Dirk van der Burg

'Return Turkey': brave confession from a gutmensch on #tfboulevard

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 August 201629 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Boulevard, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER

The world is changing quite a bit and it's nice when artists do something with it. Festival Boulevard gives Lizzy Timmers the opportunity to make an attempt. That attempt, performed in a somewhat run-down cultural centre in a real Bossche power district, is quite something. Backurk is the name of this semi-documentary performance. Timmers has immersed herself in young, well-educated, well-integrated Turks who have come to the Netherlands...

Griet Op de Beeck's MONA will blow you away at Festival Boulevard #TFBoulevard

by Henri Drost
9 August 201630 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, Boulevard, LITERARY, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER

No, these sentences are not in Griet Op de Beeck's theatre monologue Mona, but nicely sum up the bestseller Come Here That I Kiss You (28 printings in just under two years). Op de Beeck adapted the first part into one of Festival Boulevard's most impressive performances. We do see nine-year-old Mona's sentence as a backdrop, complete...

Fringe notes (1): Hard lessons in comedy at Edinburgh Fringe festival #edfringe

by Leo Bankersen
8 August 201630 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PODIUM ART, THEATER

Amazing how more than a thousand performers at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival are willing to try their hand at the most difficult genre: comedy

Boulevard. Scenic photo Piknik Horrific Laika. Photo : Kathleen Michiels

Horror and humour vie for power at Festival Boulevard #tfboulevard

by Wijbrand Schaap
8 August 20167 August 2017
4 min read
ACTUAL, Boulevard, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER

Project Cloud, the latest experiential artwork by Bossche city artist Lucas de Man, may need a disclaimer. Anyone entering the seven-storey work had better not do so in the company of a solid existential crisis. The visitor before me did, and still needed a very good talk with a psychological counsellor afterwards. Who...

Scenefoto the bicycle thief, Johan petit. Bart van Nuffelen, Photo: Kurt van der Elst

'Bicycle thief': Last-century Flemish formation theatre at Festival Boulevard #tfboulevard

by Wijbrand Schaap
7 August 201630 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Boulevard, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER

Once upon a time there was this film, Ladri di Biciclette, Bicycle Thieves in Dutch. Italian director Vittorio de Sica established a totally new film movement with it in 1948: neo-realism. Amateur actors pretty much played their own lives at the bottom of the social ladder. Engaging, inspired, raw and confrontational, especially at the time. Little people, caught in the spiral of social...

Tent Theatre in Den Bosch: The Turret of Order of the Day

Tent Theatre in Den Bosch: high quality, shame about the sound #tfboulevard

by Wijbrand Schaap
6 August 201629 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Boulevard, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER

Sometimes, people are so angry politically that they furiously turn down the chance to become the country's boss themselves upon hearing the word 'prime minister'. Oscar Kocken, the cheerful host and creator, together with Daan Windhorst, of 'Het Torentje' noticed this last Friday. He was trying to warm up a passer-by to his performance, in a tent on the...

Tomorrow's dance summit now on show in The Hague

by Frans van Hilten
6 August 201630 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS, PODIUM ART

Nederlands Dans Theater's summer course gives a glimpse of the future. At the top dancers of tomorrow, but also the choreographers: many of the company's dance makers created a first piece for this summer course. This year, the course also gives a look at the old stage of the half-demolished Lucent Danstheater in The Hague. You can catch a...

Zvizdal - Chernobyl so far so close, by Berlin/The Zuidelijk Toneel

If you have nothing but love - Zvizdal is stunning highlight of Festival Boulevard #tfboulevard

by Wijbrand Schaap
6 August 20165 July 2023
8 min read
Boulevard, FILM, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

I experienced by far one of the most impressive theatre experiences of my life on Friday 5 August 2016. I was a guest at 'Zvizdal - Chernobyl so far, so close' by the Flemish company Berlin, in co-production with Het Zuidelijk Toneel. I saw this 'documentary installation' in an empty factory hall in Den Bosch, where the work is a beautiful resting point in...

Hieronymus Bosch: Garden of Delights triptych.

Masterpiece Hieronymus Bosch dominates opening Festival Boulevard #tfboulevard

by Wijbrand Schaap
5 August 201630 March 2022
4 min read
Boulevard, DANS, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS

Adding three tonnes a year is cause for celebration. But Viktorien van Hulst, at the helm of the Bossche Theatre Festival Boulevard for the second year, had to restrain herself in her opening speech. Because the subsidising Performing Arts Fund does not give money to a large number of well-performing fellow institutions despite a positive assessment, the suffering in the performing arts exceeds the joy. Torn is called that....

ISH Fund Performing Arts awards

Performing Arts Fund cuts dance subsidies. Not enough, according to some.

by Ruben Brugman
3 August 201629 March 2022
7 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS, PODIUM ART

The Performing Arts Fund announced the awards for the 2017-2020 period. What does this mean for the dance sector? Pluralism and 'bleeding through'. While everyone is on holiday, the Performing Arts Fund announced the grant awards for the performing arts for the 2017-2020 period. And it was reiterated: the fund is facing a previously initiated budget cut of 30 per cent. That would...

Viktorien van Hulst (Boulevard): 'The thresholds are low but the bar is high' #TFBoulevard

by Hannah Roelofs
2 August 20161 August 2017
4 min read
ACTUAL, Boulevard, SPECIALS

Boulevard flags fly everywhere in Den Bosch in the sunshine. The office of the 32-year-old Theatre Festival Boulevard on Sint Josephstraat is a jumble of people walking in and out. The beaming director, Viktorien van Hulst, has bags under her eyes like a festival director should have three days before the opening.

The 5 youth performances you must see during Theatre Festival Boulevard

by Henri Drost
1 August 201630 July 2017
3 min read
ACTUAL, Boulevard, DANS, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER

Festival Boulevard kicks off on 4 August. The traditional reason to come back from holiday in August has a fuller programme than ever this time. With lots of youth theatre. We'll help you get started in advance.

Waanzinnige heldin in opera Hanna Kulenty

by Thea Derks
30 July 201630 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, MUSIC, OPERA, PODIUM ART, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Een opera over het meervoudig persoonlijkheidssyndroom, kan dat wel? De Pools-Nederlandse componist Hanna Kulenty (1961) en de Canadese librettist Paul Goodman (1955) waagden het en oogstten veel lof met The Mother of Black-Winged Dreams. Deze opera beleeft volgende week zaterdag 6 augustus zijn Nederlandse première tijdens de NJO Muziekzomer, in een coproductie met Dutch National Opera Academy. Waanzinnige heldinnen, de gangbare operaliteratuur wemelt…

Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016): Finnish icon of contemporary music

by Thea Derks
28 July 201630 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, MUSIC, OPERA, PODIUM ART

Last Wednesday night, 27 July, Einojuhani Rautavaara died at his home in Helsinki, following complications during an operation. Aged 87, he was widely regarded as the uncrowned heir apparent to Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), who wrote his last notes around 1930.

Swans 2016

These are the winners of the Swans 2016. Or not.

by Ruben Brugman
28 July 201630 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS, PODIUM ART

Three dancers and three dance productions have been nominated for Swans 2016. On Friday 7 October in Maastricht, Daphne Bunskoek and Art Rooijakkers will announce who the winners are during the Nederlandse Dansdagen's Opening Programme 2016. But you can already draw a few conclusions from the list of nominees.

Joseph Puglia shines in music Luciano Berio

by Thea Derks
16 July 201613 February 2019
3 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, MUSIC, SPECIALS

American-Dutch violinist Joseph Puglia is a passionate advocate of contemporary music. Last year he scored highly with his rendition of the Violin Concerto by Anders Hillborg, together with the young musicians of the NJO Symphony Orchestra. He is first violinist of Asko|Schönberg, with whom he presented the world premiere of the violin concerto composed especially for him earlier this year Roads to Everywhere By Joey Roukens.

dance academy royal conservatoire national ballet academy

Charm and muscle at final performance of dance courses

by Ruben Brugman
10 July 201630 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS, PODIUM ART

Overwhelming final performances from the dance departments of the Royal Conservatoire and the National Ballet Academy shed light on young talent. And at the courses themselves.

Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016), the great humanist of Iranian cinema

by Leo Bankersen
5 July 201630 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016) zette de Iraanse cinema op de kaart met diep doorleefd humanisme in een minimalistische vorm.

Theatre festival Boulevard

Theatre Festival Boulevard: Not the Avignon, but the Berlin of the Netherlands?

by Wijbrand Schaap
30 June 201620 February 2017
4 min read
ACTUAL, Boulevard, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER

There are many reasons not to go on holiday. It costs money, you come back more stressed than you went, the food is no good, it costs tons of CO2 and it doesn't increase mutual understanding between countries either. Reason enough, then, to just stay here and enjoy the free time given to you by the boss, or by yourself if you are self-employed. Without being barked at by airport staff.

Suburbia’s Vijand van het Volk waarschuwt voor neoliberalisme

by Rudolf Hunnik
27 June 201630 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, PODIUM ART, THEATER

Vijand van het Volk is de zomervoorstelling van Theatergroep Suburbia, in de regie van Albert Lubbers. Het stuk haakt aan bij de actualiteit van corrupte bankiers, milieuschandalen en overheidsdienaren die klokkenluiderkwesties in de doofpot stoppen. Deze sterke voorstelling is scherp van toon, polemisch en met vileine humor. Beter dan in eerdere Suburbia-voorstellingen past het vertrouwde dynamische acteerwerk mooi in de theatrale ruimte. Dit keer is dat de grote open schuur op Stadslandgoed de Kemphaan.

Ça ira (1) Fin de Louis, Joël Pommerat, photo: Elisabeth Carecchio.

On the edge of Europe, Holland Festival attracts 86,000 visitors #HF16

by Wijbrand Schaap
26 June 201620 February 2017
2 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Ruth Mackenzie has brought new impetus to the Holland Festival. Not that her predecessor Pierre Audi did badly, but the British organisational talent has brought topicality and urgency to the programme. When she devised her programme theme, she too will not have suspected that the concept of 'Edges of Europe' would take on such a charge. After all, simultaneously with the last weekend of the festival, the English people decided, against the wishes of everyone but the Welsh, to leave the European Union behind. The Netherlands suddenly found itself on the far edge of Europe, with only a view of distant Ireland.

Nicolas Mansfield: Today I feel more European than ever. #Brexit

by Nicolas Mansfield
25 June 201630 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, OPERA, PERSONAL, PODIUM ART

24th of June, 2016. What a day. I spent it at the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in The Hague. Speaking with civil servants about the achievements, plans, challenges and dreams of the Dutch National Touring Opera. All in the shadow of something I find difficult to process.

Akram Khan Until the Lions © Jean Louis Fernandez

Akram Khan's 'Until the Lions' drags you through borders #HF16

by Maarten Baanders
24 June 201630 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, DANS, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

As soon as you enter the Ketelhuis of Amsterdam's Westergasfabriek, a dark droning tone takes you into the misty, somewhat ominous atmosphere of 'Until the Lions' by Akram Khan Company. A huge disc from a tree trunk, with jagged annual rings and cracks, will become the scene of a mythical battle. At stake is the human body: weak, strong, male, female. Boundaries will perish.

Roaring, pounding big band overwhelms with conspiracies #hf16

by Helen Westerik
24 June 201629 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM, Holland Festival, MUSIC, SPECIALS

A big band, a ticking clock, conspiracy theories and twelve-tonality. Mix that in a theatrical setting and it can go whooping out of control. Yet composer Darcy James Argue manages to make it a propulsive and energising whole, with help from director Isaac Butler and cinematographer Peter Nigrihi.

Wunderbaum sends you into the night with a smile #HF16

by Hannah Roelofs
23 June 201620 February 2017
3 min read
Holland Festival, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER

This year's Holland Festival spotlights Rotterdam-based theatre collective Wunderbaum with the revival of 'The Coming of Xia', premieres of 'Privacy' and 'The Future of Sex' and the film 'Stop acting now'. With this film, Wunderbaum concludes their four-year project 'The New Forest', a 'Platform for social change', according to Wunderbaum, "The New Forest depicts transition and casts a...

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