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Disgusting image or boomer panic? Amsterdam Fringe Festival causes a stir with campaign image

by Wijbrand Schaap
September 6, 20227 September 2022
5 min read
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Some things that used to be fun cannot be done now. Things like smoking in class, posters of David Hamilton in the dorm room, underpaying women, driving a car with a bottle of gin behind it, you name it. This week, an interesting riot was added. The Amsterdam Fringe Festival, the naughty sister of the Dutch Theatre Festival, chose a campaign image that, to...

What I learned from Alida Dors and the Dutch Playwriting Prize

by Wijbrand Schaap
4 September 20224 September 2022
5 min read
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Of the 122 stage texts read by the jury of the Dutch Toneelschrijfprijs, just under 30 were written by female authors. In a field where the number of female workers is huge, this is striking. Because, the jury rightly stated, in written Dutch theatre, the male gaze is still dominant. While the theatre audience percentage-wise more women...