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Halina Reijn

Laura van Dolron plays in front of 2 people and that's pretty ok. Nerd podcast #6 with Marijn Lems, Wijbrand Schaap and special guest Laura van Dolron

by Wijbrand Schaap
5 March 202130 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, FAITS DIVERS, PODCAST, PODIUM ART, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Marijn (NRC/Theaterkrant) and Wijbrand (Culture Press) disagree quite often, prompting another solid podcast about how to look at theatre professionally. This time, Wijbrand had got excited about the fact that stand-up philosopher Laura van Dolron performed a play for two invited guests each time, professionals mostly, and that they then wrote entire newspaper pages full of...

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Fred Goessens leaves ITA: 'In every group there is such a reliable lobster as me'

by Wijbrand Schaap
12 March 202029 March 2022
15 min read
For members only, PERSONAL, PODIUM ART, THEATER, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Fred Goessens has been dead, but is still alive. As uncompromising as ever. The Netherlands' most reliable actor makes an interim will after twenty-two years with Toneelgroep Amsterdam. 'I had shit on everything' This interview was published 10 years ago in TheaterMaker, the trade magazine for the theatre sector. As Fred Goessens is now leaving ITA, the company where he once...

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"'Well nice' is not good enough, that falls right off." Film critic Jan Pieter Ekker on possibly the last Directors' Forum at the Dutch Film Festival

by Helen Westerik
27 September 201929 March 2022
7 min read
For members only, FILM, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

The Dutch Film Festival is about to erupt. A spacious week with a broad overview of everything moving on Dutch screens, from public film to short student film. Last year was noisy: directors, editors and cameramen expressed gloom about the quality and guts of patriotic film. Visitor numbers don't seem to be overblown either, although...

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Ivo van Hove directed a top-notch broadcast of Zomergasten, with a wonderful lead role for Janine Abbring.

by Wijbrand Schaap
2 September 20192 September 2019
5 min read
MEDIA, PODIUM ART, THEATER, BECOME A MEMBER

Janine Abbring has managed to pull the somewhat ramshackle institution Zomergasten out of the doldrums. She has fun, is excellently prepared, is genuinely interested in her guests and has managed to push the eternal battle element into the background without making the broadcasts less exciting. That battle element was always: does the interviewer succeed in 'breaking' the guest? Because.

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Zvizdal - Tsjernobyl so far so close, door Berlin/Het Zuidelijk Toneel

Do you want the audience back, Sarah Sluimer? Then give it back to the actors.

by Wijbrand Schaap
8 May 201714 September 2018
5 min read
ACTUAL, PODIUM ART, PREMIUM, THEATER

In the Volkskrant of 8 May 2017, Sarah Sluimer lets loose. The opinion maker (for Volkskrant and De Correspondent, among others) used to be a theatre maker and now wonders aloud why she is a bit done with theatre. Because she actually writes that down. I quote: 'I breathed theatre. I ate performances and was convinced that what was there,...

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7 reasons why you should invest in Holland Festival 2017 #hf17

by Wijbrand Schaap
9 February 201730 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, DANS, Holland Festival, MUSIC, OPERA, PODIUM ART, PREMIUM, SPECIALS, THEATER

Ruth Mackenzie has achieved an enormous amount in the short time she has been boss of Holland Festival. I've experienced the festival now since the late 1990s and watched it evolve from something very personal and sometimes obscure (under Ivo van Hove), to an ethereal feast of sizzling aesthetics (with Pierre Audi), to what it...

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The 10 theatre performances you actually wanted to see in 2014, even if you had to leave Amsterdam for half of them

by Henri Drost
27 December 201411 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC, OPERA, THEATER

It's raining annual lists and we're merrily joining in. As subjective as anyone, after all, no one sees everything, and opinions on taste can always differ. Of course, also in this list many performances in or from the Randstad, but half of them were not yet shown there. And all genres mixed together. As long as it is theatre. With the only limitation: no repeats, apologies Ring and Lohengrin (DNO), St John Passion (NRO). And no dance, because for that our partner dance audience.

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One and a half million for art. Provided it is directly demonstrably useful

by Wijbrand Schaap
9 July 201411 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL

One and a half million euros sounds quite a lot. So a cry of joy will be heard here and there now that Jet Bussemaker is allocating that extra amount to culture. After all, this is yet another make up after the almost 300 million her ministry took from the sector earlier. However, the conditions the culture minister attaches to the money tell a different story: the money is only for art that is demonstrably useful.

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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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DUS retains grant, leadership leaves

by one of our members
25 October 201230 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

The Netherlands' most striking company when it comes to handling grant money has been saved. The Theatre newspaper reports that the central government has agreed to the new adjusted budget, which had to be prepared after earlier this year a loss of over 2 million euros had arisen. So the company keeps the one and a half million euros and artistic director Jos Thie and his business partner Jelle Snijder are chased out of the city with pitch and feathers, where they can join the Supervisory Board that had already turned a little too blind eye. After all, putting in an overpriced production to make up for the deficit from an earlier run of that same overpriced production: no entrepreneur would ever allow that.

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We talk endlessly about climate change and then the lights go out. #decision

by Wijbrand Schaap
22 September 201129 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

It is the most frequently asked question to actresses: whether it is difficult, crying on command. And invariably Carice van Houten or Halina Reijn then replies to Matthijs van Nieuwkerk or Jeroen Pauw that there are all kinds of tricks for that. For crying. Just think of something nasty, tiger balm, onions, and Vaseline. Now, however, it turns out there is something where even...

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