Het lastigste van weer aan het werk gaan na de zomervakantie zijn de vakantieverhalen van collega’s. Of van jezelf. Dat fantastische uitzicht, die unieke camping, dat prachtige strandje, dat restaurant waar je voor geen geld het beste eten ter wereld kreeg, dat inheemse volk dat jij als eerste met je touringcar bezocht. Dat momentje van klimaatschaamte dat je nog even…
Van de 122 toneelteksten die de jury van de Nederlandse Toneelschrijfprijs las, waren er een kleine dertig geschreven door vrouwelijke auteurs. In een vakgebied waar het aantal vrouwelijke werkers enorm groot is, valt dat op. Want, zo stelde de jury terecht, in het geschreven Nederlandse theater is de mannelijke blik toch nog altijd dominant. Terwijl het theaterpubliek procentueel meer vrouwen…
Na bijna dertig edities heb ik eindelijk mijn Boulevard-vuurdoop gehad. En wat een verademing was het. Publiek van 2 tot 80, een festivalterrein waar je gewoon overheen kunt banjeren zonder kaartje. Sterker: een festivalterrein waar je ook op een buitenpodium naar acrobatiek en dans kunt kijken zonder kaartje! Ik zag mensen hun hondje uitlaten en even kijken of er nog…
Van donderdag 1 tot en met zondag 11 september 2022 toont het Nederlands Theater Festival de mooiste producties van het afgelopen theaterseizoen. De Nederlandse Toneeljury, onder leiding van juryvoorzitter Hadassah de Boer, selecteerde de twaalf meest indrukwekkende theaterproducties van het moment. Vandaag maakte de jury haar selectie bekend. Tien van de twaalf producties uit de selectie zijn te zien tijdens de komende editie van het festival…
‘Zoals voor veel mensen betekent het theaterfestival echt wel wat. Net als de Fringe is het niet meer weg te denken. Ik heb er artistieke vriendschappen mogen sluiten, ik heb er ruzies kunnen maken, ik heb er mensen ontmoet van wie ik dacht dat het tegenstanders waren, die medestrijders bleken te zijn. Want er zijn niet alleen voorstellingen, er wordt…
Als je in onbekende wateren wilt navigeren is het goed om een kaart mee te nemen. Mijn vader was een visser, hij las nauwelijks, maar dat is wat hij me vertelde. Nu ik naar Amsterdam kom is dat ook het eerste wat ik doe: een kaart maken. Welke musea zijn er, is er een cool restaurant, is er nieuwe architectuur?…
According to Linde van Schuppen, philosopher and linguist, medics do not really listen to people with psychosis. At least, they do listen to someone suffering from obvious delusions, but that is to establish that the person is indeed off the track. 'But, how then?" is the question a psychiatrist or neurologist is not trained to answer, she argues. That is why she is doing her PhD.
The permanent site of Boulevard's festival centre has largely turned into a construction site this year. This forced the organisers to move to Zuiderpark. Although this is a bit outside the city centre, it is much more spacious and green than the Parade square. It gives the festival a nice feeling of air, space and proximity to the...
The vast majority of Dutch adults never go to the theatre. Interestingly enough, the question among theatre people is never really about why people don't go to the theatre. After all, our arts sector is a supply market. At an art school, you are not trained to please the public, but to express your most individual emotion. And then preferably...
Bosses start to look like their dogs. Or vice versa. Or owners like dogs who look like them. Or vice versa. Either way. If you want proof of this statement, rush to Theatre Festival Boulevard where John Buijsman plays the gem 'Cosmic Cowboy', assisted by Kees, a labradoodle. Or something that should pass for that. John Buijsman is one of the...
One of the things that make Boulevard so special in the Dutch festival landscape is its generous focus on Belgian performances. Where Dutch theatres programme less and less work from across the southern borders, Boulevard continues to offer a stage to a large number of Belgian makers. Learning to live together This produces very varied work again this year. At the heart of the festival is...
There is a huge amount happening in theatre, this summer, as many summer festivals have special corona editions where they show a lot of what was made in attic rooms last year during the forced closure of theatres. One such show was Die Hexe, by Club Gewalt, a fresh point theatre band/theatre collective that is/was showing at Theatre Festival Boulevard this summer. Nerd...
Think Pussy Riot, think Rammstein, maybe think Nina Hagen before she found Jesus and mix that up nice and fierce. Then you get something that is basically an insane festival act. Raging female punk in a beer- and smoke-soaked nightclub, ferocious moshpits full of people who really have something to dance out of their souls. It's all in there...
We don't look upward enough. Maybe we do a quick glance at the horizon to see if that shower is really going to ruin our terrace afternoon, but that's not looking for the sake of looking. And I was able to do that thanks to the people of BLOOS. In Bossche Zuiderpark, they have a...
For a year and a half, there was hardly any playing, festival tents remained in mothballs and artists were busy doing living room concerts or attic sessions on Zoom. Now everything is allowed out again and the discharge is just barely there. Unaccustomedness characterises the fresh start of Theatre Festival Boulevard, which has moved to a park south of downtown Bossche for the next few years,...
This podcast is recorded in English. For those who do not speak the language, or who do not have time to listen to the full podcast, here are some quotes. 'Originally I didn't have a title. Someone came up with 'Born to' and then I thought it would be nice to put 'manifesto' after it. After all, it is about appearing,...
Theatre festival Boulevard is going ahead this summer, just like last year. Everything is adapted to 'corona': safe at one-and-a-half metres, placarded, with registration for catering, but still just about a hundred performances. In this podcast, I speak to Nina Aalders and Tessa Smeulers, responsible for Boulevard's programming. They remained at the helm after the much-loved and...
Last week, Theatre Festival Boulevard announced the first performances as well as the theme 'Hack the horizon'. Today at noon, online ticket sales start for a large part of the programming. The programme is still under development and will be announced through online channels in the coming weeks. Fans can buy tickets for Jan Martens/GRIP, Nastaran Razawi Khorasani,...
Whether we want to speak only of 's-Hertogenbosch from now on. Apparently, a last vestige of decency has bravely survived in the provincial capital of Brabant. Nazmiye Oral, master of ceremonies at a party at Den Bosch's citadel on 9 June, forgot right the first time. City marketers and old nobility fight hand in hand for a respected name to trump the vernacular....
Theatre Festival Boulevard 's-Hertogenbosch will take place from Thursday 5 to Sunday 22 August 2021. The 37th festival edition features over 120 different performances, concerts, performances and installations in theatres, at unique locations and in the Zuiderpark. We also move into the night with Fomo Fatale, club nights with steaming sounds. The Zuiderpark serves as the new, spacious festival centre, including the...
When Jeffrey Meulman (52) took office as director of the Theatre Festival in 2005, it needed to become more audience-friendly. Instead of a presentation of 'the most important theatre', the board that appointed him wanted to make a celebration of the most beautiful theatre. Meulman went to work, successfully, but the most important thing he did was to establish a 'fringe': an alternative...
After more than six years as director, Viktorien van Hulst is leaving Stichting Theaterfestival Boulevard 's-Hertogenbosch and Stichting Bosse Nova. She will start on 1 July as director-director at the Fonds Podiumkunsten, where she will succeed Henriëtte Post. The Performing Arts Fund supports all forms of professional performing arts on behalf of the central government and has an annual budget of 62 million euros available for this purpose. Peggy Olislaegers...
Theatre festival Boulevard 's-Hertogenbosch is preparing for its 37th edition. An edition in which the organisation is still reckoning with ongoing measures around the corona virus. To better ensure 1.5 metres distance between visitors, Boulevard is making a new festival centre this year. In the Zuiderpark in 's-Hertogenbosch, we will realise a new meeting place with a spacious layout. In addition...
Under the leadership of Viktorien van Hulst, Boulevard Theatre Festival has grown into a regionally rooted festival of national importance. Every year, Boulevard manages to strike a smart balance between entertainment with substance and joyful innovation, with a keen eye on inclusivity.
The VVD will not give away Mark Rutte's latest crown jewel, the arts subsidy cut, for free. The latest argument: suction effect.
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