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Ryan van den Akker plays Hiroshima in a child's soul; Voice of Alfred Jodocus Kwak comes to Enschede

by one of our members
8 March 2021
2 min read
PRESS, PODIUM ART

At Concordia and the Vestzaktheatre, many performances continue as a live stream. On Saturday 13 March, for instance, Ryan van den Akker (known in musical leading roles such as Cyrano, My Fair Lady, Elisabeth, De Jantjes) will drop by with her performance 'Hiroshima in a child's soul'. A unique, personal narration of a poignant and terrifying story from her childhood. Theatre programmer Ellen Peters: "I find...

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Inkspot battle won by Renée van den Kerkhof

by one of our members
7 March 202130 March 2022
3 min read
VISUAL, MEDIA, PRESS

Saturday, March 6, the annual Inkspotbattle took place at Concordia. The theme was "Elections (in Corona time)". 10 Dutch cartoonists participated. The only female participant, Renée van den Kerkhof, walked away with the prize. Online visitors could watch the participating cartoonists translate a topical subject into cartoons. An expert jury chose at the end of the...

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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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The theatres in Poland are open again. But the curves....

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

After Guido Weijers' Fieldlab turned out not to be a superspreading event, and nobody laughed hard enough at Dolf Jansen to infect others, now also good news from our relations in Poland: over the past month, since the reopening of theatres in Poland on 12 February, 55,000 people have already been to the theatre. Plenty of reason for enthusiasm, as it apparently...

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Nerd podcast #5: on the future of theatre, Milo Rau and the power of the critic

by Wijbrand Schaap
25 February 2021
1 min read
PODCAST, PODIUM ART, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

This episode, number 5 already in an increasingly well-listened-to podcast series, is about the future of theatre. A future after Corona, of course, but also the future as some theatre makers and journalists dream of it. For example, Marijn Lems (NRC) and Wijbrand Schaap (Culture Press) talk about Milo Rau, the high-profile artistic director of NTGent (Belgium). Who came a few years...

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Bring on those full houses

by Onno Weggemans
25 February 2021
3 min read
MUSIC, PODIUM ART, THEATER, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

For the first time in almost a year, I feel like going to the theatre again. I am eager, soon, when the theatres are full again. That's thanks to this site's newsletter that I received in my mailbox yesterday. Until now, I was not looking forward to returning to a full theatre. Afraid of...

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Halima El Ghamarti started her new job just before Corona: 'The new normal? That's my normal here.' (Podcast and video)

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 July 202030 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PODCAST, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, Utrecht, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Barely three weeks into her job when the corona pandemic and lockdown came. So, for Halima el Ghamarti, who started as director of the Jongeren Cultuurhuis Kanaleneiland and Overvecht in mid-February, there is no other normal than the new normal: working from home, and doing so with an organisation whose main purpose is to connect young people in Utrecht with...

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