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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.

Toonder exhibition hits target, misses essence

by one of our members
26 October 201230 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Het Letterkundig Museum mist met zijn ‘Dubbel Denkraam’ tentoonstelling over het leven en werk van Marten Toonder de essentie van de kunst van Toonder.
De tentoonstelling oogt wel fraai gestyleerd, en volgt chronologisch het leven en werk van Toonder. Er is aan het begin een hokje in de vorm van een schip – de vader van Toonder was kapitein en nam Amerikaanse comics mee voor zijn zoons, wat Toonder als kind inspireerde – en aan het eind een hokje verborgen in een grote dikke typische Toonder-boo...

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The 1 per cent and the concert hall; classical music as a henchman of the rich against 'the 99 per cent'

by one of our members
15 October 201130 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

While anti-capitalists were plotting to occupy Amsterdam's Beursplein this week - if you can at least put the protesters under that heading - in the US, anger over THE 99 PERCENT shifted to the concert hall. The discussion flared up in response to two events. Wall Street was occupied; and the Metropolitan Opera received $182 million in donations in one year, a record amount....