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

by one of our members
6 September 201030 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

"I am fifty-eight." Plumply, Saskia Lemming (Oda Spelbos) reveals her biggest secret to husband and jaded folk singer René Lemming (Peter Bolhuis). He married her 12 years ago, thinking she was a young blonde. In turn, he reveals that he actually wrote 'You are the cream of my crop', his number one hit, for another woman. The bomb bursts on reality show 'The Lemmings'. Or rather: on stage at De Balie, where Hadewich Minis, Peter Bolhuis, Oda Spelbos and Yorick Zwart compete in Night guests. A three-hour improvisational 'jam session'.

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

by one of our members
2 September 201029 March 2022
6 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

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.

Thanks to Elfriede Jelinek, since 9 June we know a little better what it is like to be Austrian. #hf10

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 June 201030 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

By Wijbrand Schaap (photo Arno Declair) Since Wednesday 9 June 2010, the Netherlands has been looking a bit more like Austria again, although with us the mountains are in the southeast, instead of the west. And there's another difference: we are still allowed to see the stage work of Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek, while the stern writer's work in her...