Marietje d’Hane Scheltema, haar naam zij geprezen. Wat vond ik haar vroeger oubollig met haar keurige rijmpjes waarmee ze klassiek Griekse en Romeinse drinkgelagen wist om te zetten naar Kralings-keurige bakvispartijtjes. En wat kon ik het dus mis hebben. Want wat werkt haar vertaalwerk van Ovidius’ Metamorfosen goed in de handen van de mensen van Aluin. Gisteren was de première…
Twee mannen. Niet eens zo heel erg gespierd, niet eens zo heel erg stoer. Maar wat een dokwerkers. En wat een eenvoud om iets heel moois te vertellen. De een rolt zichzelf op als een steen en de ander rolt die steen een berg op. Die berg bestaat uit podiumdelen die elk zeker een halve meter in hoogte van elkaar…
Called The Winter Collection, it is a five-day mini-festival full of surprises. Utrecht-based Theatre Kikker has now made it a tradition to provide some real surprises every year around Sinterklaas. 10 performances by young creators, from video art, to rowdy dance performance, from a silent monologue to post-dramatic cyberpunk, enough to give any theatre lover a wake-up call....
Speaking of diversity, within the dominantly white theatre audience, it is also full of bubbles. Over the past two weeks, for instance, I have just let it dawn on me how little overlap there is between the audiences of the two art theatres in my city, Utrecht. At least: for a while I sort of immersed myself in the world of...
'When Paul moves his little finger something happens. They have a scene where Jochem draws a picture of Paul. Paul is posing naked. And that lasts. That takes a long time. You and I, as amateurs, would fill that with all sorts of poses and movements, but Paul doesn't do anything. You think. And all sorts of things happen. HIj is doing something, then, but....
What happens when you take someone's head off? Little, you will say, since the accompanying body dies. But then you are wrong. Because at the first GRIP evening at Utrecht's Theater Kikker, Steven Michel showed that the rest of the body then just takes over. Fascinating to notice how you go from a bare back to...
The first bare female breast I consciously observed in my life was the happily swishing boob of the girl in the Fa advertisement. It must have been sometime deep in the 1970s. The same time the Pacifisties Socialistiese Partij also did something similar with a cow in the background. Now, a good forty years later, the...
While Jan Martens' latest work, The Common People (2016), was at Amsterdam's Stadschouwburg last weekend, Utrecht's Theater Kikker is showing two older hits this week: Sweat Baby Sweat (2011) and The dog days are over (2014). Sweat and Dogdays are blockbusters and have already toured the world. At Kikker, they can now be seen as part of a...
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