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Acteurs hebben ambivalente gevoelens bij het ‘prijzencircus’, ofwel het Gala van het Nederlands Theater #tf2010

Een rode loper, veel champagne en nog veel meer geknuffel. Het is een warm weerzien voor theaterland, het Gala van het Nederlands Theater in de Amsterdamse Stadsschouwburg. Een spannend weerzien ook, want de belangrijkste Nederlandse toneelprijzen worden vanavond uitgereikt.
De genomineerden schrijden in prachtige avondkledij naar hun plek voorin de zaal. De zenuwen zijn voelbaar en de sfeer is wat plechtig. Tot gastvrouw Clairy Polak het podium betreedt met de woorden: ‘Zo hier voor u staand ...

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'I am Zutphenian, but also Turkish' actor Sadettin Kirmiziyüz gets jury nomination for Wilders, The Musical

Gijs Scholten van Aschat was so convincing that casting director Hans Kemna was a bit scared of him. Van Aschat did an original wilderness speech and shock went through the audience. Since he now plays the villain of villains with Orkater (Richard III), convincingly delivering a hate speech reasonably is a piece of cake for him. Two true Wilders fans found... 

Frank Sanders teaches young musical talents to let loose and empathise during the special Sondheim Musical Masterclass #tf2010

'He fears that the real thing may have come along a hundred times, but he missed it.'
'Exactly. And how old are you?'
'Twenty.'
‘Tja...’

Yoran de Bont, deelnemer aan de Sondheim Musical Masterclass, praat met musicalgoeroe Frank Sanders over de betekenis van het lied dat hij zojuist heeft gezongen: Someone is waiting uit de musical Company. Kan hij als jonge musicalacteur dit soort beladen teksten wel eigen maken? Met de juiste begeleiding zeker, blijkt na tien minuten sparre...

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Comedic and dramatic play in Mokhallad Rasem's experimental, surreal 'Iraqi Ghosts' #tf2010

In pak, met dierenmaskers op, poseren vijf acteurs op het podium. Ze stellen een beer, konijn, hert, haan en aap voor. Vanuit deze ‘freeze’ beginnen zij dierengeluiden te maken en te bewegen. Een ritmische performance volgt. Geboeid, maar verward, bekijkt het publiek de vervreemdende dans. Wat hebben die dieren toch met de oorlog in Irak te maken? Net als je je begint af te vragen of je wel in de goede zaal zit, zetten de spelers hun maskers af en geven het antwoord: ‘Heeft u zich ooit afgevraa...

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Pictorial 'Raging heights, restless souls' for people of all ages #tf2010

Wuthering Heights is often mentioned in the same breath as other nineteenth-century classics such as Jane Eyre or Pride and Prejudice, but Emily Brontë's book is infinitely darker than those other coquettish girl books. Heathcliff and Cathy's big, dramatic passion actually connects surprisingly well with emos who are Twilight, True Blood and devour other contemporary vampire stories.

Adaptor Jeroen Olyslaegers and director Floor Huygen were well aware of this when they adapted the novel for the stage into Fierce heights, restless souls, a co-production of Dutch youth theatre company Artemis and Flemish Antigone. The show garnered high praise, can now be seen in TF, but was also nominated for two Gouden Krekels, the awards for youth theatre.

Sanja Mitrovic wins BNG theatre award of 45,000 euros with performance 'Will you ever be happy again?" #tf2010

Sanja Mitrovic has won the BNG New Theatermakers Prize 2010. She receives the prize of 45,000 euros for her performance 'Will You Ever Be Happy Again'? In which she took care of both directing and acting. She can spend the prize money on a new performance next season.

'About Animals' by Elfriede Jelinek is so unprecedentedly ruthless and dire, you wish for a way out #tf2010

'Kontneuken tegen meerprijs.' 'Doen die ook pijpen zonder condoom?' 'Die heeft een keer aan mijn lul gezogen en toen was ze de hele nacht misselijk. 's Ochtends heeft ze in mijn bed gekotst.' Continu doen ze suggestieve dansjes en voortdurend kijken ze de zaal in, met een vastgebeitelde glimlach die ergens tussen geamuseerd en geniepig in zit. De zes spelers van Over Dieren zijn uitdagend en meedogenloos. Susanne Kennedy’s regie van het stuk van Nobelprijswinnares Elfriede Jelinek is ongekend n...

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Director Thomas Ostermeier argues for 'dramatic non-dramatic' theatre in his masterclass #tf2010

Ze is net terug van een lange vakantie in haar geboorteland Noorwegen en, al vinden veel Noren Ibsen tegenwoordig saai, zelf houdt ze van zijn werk. Maren Bjorseth is derde-jaars regiestudente aan de AHK. Haar Nederlands is vlekkeloos; het is moeilijk te geloven dat ze hier pas twee jaar woont. Maren is een van de vier regie-studenten die is uitverkoren om een masterclass te volgen van de Duitse regisseur Thomas Ostermeier, artistiek leider van Schaubühne Berlin. Vorig jaar was in de Stadschouw...

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Actors make audience laugh and gawk with intrigue in theatrical jam session 'Night Guests' #tf2010

“Ik ben achtenvijftig.” Plompverloren onthult Saskia Lemming (Oda Spelbos) haar grootste geheim aan echtgenoot en uitgerangeerde volkszanger René Lemming (Peter Bolhuis). Hij trouwde twaalf jaar geleden met haar, in de veronderstelling dat ze een jonge blom was. Op zijn beurt laat hij weten dat hij ‘Jij bent het neusje van mijn zalm’, zijn nummer één hit, eigenlijk voor een andere vrouw heeft geschreven. De bom barst in realityshow ‘De Lemmings’. Of eigenlijk: op het podium in De Balie, waar ...

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Dutch actors relive emotional childhood memories during Shelley Mitchell's Method Acting Masterclass #tf2010

“Wij zijn kunstenaars. Acteren is een roeping. Niet iedereen begrijpt dat. Soms is het een eenzaam bestaan.” Begripvol, bijna moederlijk, spreekt Shelley Mitchell een groep Nederlandse acteurs toe in De Balie. De Amerikaanse actrice en oprichtster van The Actors Centre of San Francisco laat hen tijdens een driedaagse masterclass kennis maken met ‘method acting’. Niet doen alsof, maar één worden met je personage. Een manier van acteren die veel bekende acteurs een Oscar heeft opgeleverd. Denk a...

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Stunning transformations by Shelley Mitchell in poignant monologue 'Talking with Angels' #tf2010

Invisible forces, described as angels, speaking through a Jewish woman to her friends at the time of the Holocaust in Hungary. A mysterious and true story, translated into the one-woman performance Talking with Angels by American actress Shelley Mitchell. A huge success in America. Yesterday on stage for the first time in the Netherlands.

True theatre is like Storm and Cappuccino: irresistibly sublime, says Adelheid Roosen on #tf2010

'It is a wonderful thing, for instance, that every day, my body shows the same eager desire for a keigoeie kappoetzjino. That every 24 hours the desire to 'want to taste' is born in me and wants to hit me again. And I don't have to do anything for that, that desire drags me into the shower and saliva starts foaming... 

NNT's 11 minutes not only makes you lose the desire to laugh, but all lust. My wife regrets that. #tf2010

Ola Mafaalani. That's a very fierce one. So you can never ignore that. The human is so full of passion and emotion that all her stage work, because she is a director, cannot possibly leave you cold. At least, so it was until recently, with me personally finding her last play at Toneelgroep Amsterdam 'Hemel boven Berlijn' the most beautiful, because it was also the most... 

Opening #TF2010: 'Theatre should be at the forefront of discussion on society, instead of being dictated to by prevailing mores.'

On 2 September 2010, actress, writer, theatre and television producer Joan Nederlof opened the Dutch Theatre Festival with a speech that was as entertaining as it was provocative. As it was her turn to pronounce the annual 'State of the Theatre', Nederlof, born in 1962, seized the opportunity to call on her own generation to take a stand in the social debate. She did so in her own relatable way, known for her roles on TV (Deer Park) and in the theatre (Inside Out):

Drama is much more suited to interpret history than film. @RvanH writes essay on Hannah and Martin at #TF2010

Hannah and Martin by Mugmetdegoudentand is not only a heartwarming performance, played by one phenomenal actress and one inimitable theatre personality, it is also a brainteaser. Trouw reviewer and theatre scholar Robbert van Heuven felt challenged to write a short essay in response to this performance.

Door Robbert van Heuven
Feiten bepalen maar een klein deel van de geschiedschrijving. Veel belangrijker is de vraag hoe die feiten zich tot elkaar verhouden, ...

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First ACT Award presented to casting legend Hans Kemna: 'I didn't want to come at all' #tf2010

Everyone wants to kiss him for a moment. Hans Kemna, shining centre of the 'book ball for actors', has just won the very first ACT Award. The award was presented at Amsterdam's Stadsschouwburg, during the ACT gala, the prologue to the Dutch Theatre Festival.

Benjamin Verdonck opens Flemish Theatre Festival: artists must be environmentally aware #tf2010

We had completely forgotten about the environment. While the streets in the Netherlands are flooded and some Dutch people are already talking about Pakistani conditions, here the talk is mainly about looming austerity measures and disintegrating Christian Democrat power blocks. 'Artists of today must relate to environmental issues' is therefore a comment we do not expect to hear from an artist in the Netherlands. We... 

This is my father: flaming stab at anti-Semitism to be seen on #tf2010

In This is my father, young theatre-maker Ilay den Boer (1986) literally puts his own father in the spotlight. He does so by giving his father the lead role in a performance that is all about him. This results in intimate and voyeuristic theatre.
Before the performance, you will be given a booklet describing the life of Gert den Boer. Based on dates and events, visitors can ask questions to the men on stage. Father and son answer, open doors and tell anecdotes. But what if it turns out that they handle some events very differently? Where Jewish Ilay sees signs of anti-Semitism, his own reformed father recognises an innocent incident. How differently do father and son view issues like discrimination or hatred?

Branden: legendary top theatre to be seen again in Amsterdam #tf2010

The destructive power of war and hatred
Writer Wajdi Mouawad (b. 1968) fled his native Lebanon at the age of nine. At the time, a brutal civil war had been raging there for years. Together with his family, he ended up in Canada via France.
There, he develops into an internationally renowned playwright. His work is now performed all over the world. The Ro Theatre introduced Mouawad to the Netherlands for the first time this theatre season.
Regisseur Alize Zand...

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On to Theatre Festival TF and International Choice Rotterdam Theatre

  The Dodo has had its baptism of fire. We now know what the basics are, and therefore what can be improved. and of course there will be others with even more suggestions. We're going to take all that into our tents this July, think and sleep on that and then go with the new insights.... 

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