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holland festtival

Turning against the dying of the light at the direction of Katie Mitchell #HF22

by Wijbrand Schaap
18 June 202219 June 2022
ACTUAL, Featured, Holland Festival, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER

If humanity goes extinct, there has been a woman somewhere who was the last not to have a child. To whom does that honour belong? At the Holland Festival, an ensemble of 12 performers now perform a requiem for that last non-mother. Actress and singer Joy Wielkens is the extraordinarily disarming high priestess in this at times quite heavy evening, in which the end of...

NRC asked when Wagner would be cancelled. At the Holland Festival, we get an answer to that question, via Schauspielhaus Zurich #HF22

by Wijbrand Schaap
16 May 2022
ACTUAL, Featured, Holland Festival, OPERA, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER

'For me, the world of Wotan equals the world of Putin.' Christopher Ruping, director of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen to be shown in Amsterdam in June, makes no bones about it: 'Siegfried [central character of Wagner's monster production, ws] is a very problematic character. He kills the dragon without asking questions. We give the dragon...