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Alum makes final Greek exam a celebration, thanks to Antigone

Theater heeft alles met taal te maken. En niets, natuurlijk, maar dankzij Aluins versie van Antigone wil ik een lans breken voor het ‘alles’. Omdat taal veel bepalender is voor beeld dan andersom. Verwarrend? Jawel. Gelukkig maar.  Aluins Antigone, of liever gezegd, de bewerking door Erik Snel van de vertaling door Gerard Koolschijn van het stuk dat de Griek Sofokles… 

Antigone a timeless tragedy of resistance: What sacrifices are we willing to make for our morality?

Theatre Group Alum will tour from 4 December 2024 with the famous tragedy by Sophocles. In a world where power, principles and justice clash daily, Antigone poses questions that are more urgent today than ever. The play, directed by Erik Snel exposes the eternal struggle between laws and moral obligations, touching on themes that directly address contemporary... 

Shakespeare lives and comes from Utrecht

The less real theatre is, the better it works. That insight dawned on me again this weekend, in Utrecht's Stadsschouwburg. Twice, in fact. Friday with the reprise of Aluin's Twelfth Night, Saturday with Koning Krump, the masterpiece by Het Nut. Two Utrecht groups, once sprung from the same theatre school, and drunk in the same theatre cafe, where... 

We remain the most humble theatre group in the world!

Theatre Group Alum welcomes the many newcomers in the new Arts Plan. That this is at the expense of Aluin, among others, we find surprising and of course very unfortunate. Of course, we can now report on our bewilderment at so much injustice but, after all, getting a subsidy is not a right. Although it sometimes feels that way when you have so many talented... 

Genderfluïde muziekspektakel ‘Twelfth Night’ van Theatergroep Aluin wegens groot succes terug op tournee!

Na een succesvolle tournee in seizoen 2022-2023, komt vanaf oktober 2024 de muzikale Queer-komedie Twelfth Night terug naar de theaters. Schrijver Ayden Carlo maakte een bewerking van deze zeventiende-eeuwse Shakespeare voorstelling. Wederom met de aanstekelijke muziek van componist Willem Friede (o.a. van New Cool Collective) spelen Jaike Belfor, Jilles Flinterman, Floyd Koster, Sasha Muller en nieuwkomer Ebony Wilson een voorstelling… 

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'I say sorry' is now a book. Go read it, together. 

“Luisteren, niet altijd begrijpen, maar proberen mee te gaan met (de zwarte) stemmen heeft ervoor gezorgd dat er mijns inziens een prachtige tekst aan de basis lag van de voorstelling Ik zeg toch sorry.” Als een kort voorwoord van een toneeltekst al zoveel betekenis heeft als dit citaat van Raymi Sambo, moet de tekst zelf nog wel veel meer bieden.… 

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Theatre Group Alum: BOUDICA - Iron Age Warrior Queen premiering 29 September 2023

The latest Aluin production Boudica will premiere at Theatre Kikker in Utrecht on 29 September 2023. In this production, actor Jilles Flinterman tells the story of Boudica, the Celtic queen and Iron Age Warrior Queen, who to this day is seen as a symbol of female rage. If anything is written about women in... 

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Reinout Bussemaker vertolkt de controversiële J.P. Coen in de nieuwe Aluin-voorstelling “Dit is van Ons”

Utrecht – Acteur Reinout Bussemaker vertolkt vanaf december de rol van J.P. Coen in de nieuwe voor- stelling van Theatergroep Aluin “Dit is van Ons”. Deze tijdgeest komedie werpt een kritische blik op de erfenis van J.P. Coen, een historisch figuur dat zowel bewondering als veroordeling oproept. Reinout Bussemaker is bekend van diverse televisie- (De 12 van Oldenheim, De Prooi,… 

Nerd podcast Live: Marijn Lems, Erik Snel and Bran Remie on the value of audience and the need for criticism

Culture Press' new series of geek podcasts is about how to make theatre connect with your audience, and what happens when professional viewers continue to watch in their own way. And it's about the ambitions of 'the region'. So we also talk to Bran Remie, author and creator of the successful Enschede theatre series 'Huize Enschede', elsewhere on... 

Talking about gender identity with grandma - Twelfth Night by Theatre Group Alum | Premiere on 23 December 2022

In this bleak everyday reality, Theatre Group Alum gives you the opportunity to escape to Ilyria, where audiences will be immersed in a world of romance, music and gender fluidity. From 21 to 30 December, this sneaky queer party takes over Theatre Kikker. Shakespeare Twelfth Night was written by William Shakespeare as a sneaky Queer party within the norms of the seventeenth... 

'I Say Sorry' masterfully makes tangible what a madness our slavery past is.  

Saying sorry seems to be difficult, if the songs about it are to be believed, and if we measure the time it takes Dutch governments to do it. But sorry is also very easy, if you consider how often you are not pushed aside in the queue for something or other, after the word 'sorry' has sounded behind you, or -... 

'I say sorry anyway' theatre production by Theatre Group Alum and Raymi Sambo Makes about Keti Koti and slavery past on tour from the end of September

Ik zeg toch sorry a theatre performance by Theatre Group Aluin and Raymi Sambo Makes about Keti Koti, the day celebrating the (official) abolition of slavery, will be shown in Dutch theatres from the end of September. At a time when more and more municipalities and organisations are openly apologising for the slavery past or letting their own role in this period be... 

'We really thought it would only take three weeks' - Young actors on graduating at Corona time

Susannah Elmecky en Emma Remmelts zaten in het derde jaar van de Utrechtse theaterschool toen Covid toesloeg. Nu zijn ze allebei afgestudeerd en begonnen aan een carrière op de planken. In deze podcast vertellen ze hoe ze de tijd van de lockdowns hebben beleefd. Ook aangeschoven is Victorine Plante, regisseur van Theatergroep Aluin, waar Susannah Elmecky nu een mooi rol… 

Don't F*ck With Artemis: Aluin's revenge comedy offers solace in times of despair

In terms of religion, we are badly off with a single supreme and omniscient god who is also Love. Theologians and philosophers have therefore been earning a fat living for a couple of decades explaining all the misery in the world where God is only love. No. Then the classical Greeks. With them, free will ruled. Not... 

Nerd podcast 14: These two reviewers remarkably agree on Catholic theatre, the Holland Festival, ITA and the upcoming summer

We once started this series because we disagree horribly about some things, but in practice things turn out differently. In episode 14 of this fascinating series of insider conversations about theatre and whatnot, we talk about a few Holland Festival performances and look ahead to the festival summer. As it turns out, the... 

Cultuurpers corona podcast in tijden van (17): Waarom de ramp voor de cultuursector nog veel erger is. (Met Cobie de Vos, Aluin en Dorine Schoon)

We proberen toch altijd te zoeken naar een lichtpuntje, maar soms moet je het gewoon even laten gaan. Maandag 6 april 2020 brachten we een bericht over hoe de coronacrisis lange na-effecten heeft, die hun schaduw zeker al een jaar vooruitwerpen. Vandaag praten we met Victorine Plante en Erik Snel van Aluin, de brenger van dat eerste bericht. In de… 

And so the chain falls over. Why the interdependence of the arts creates long-term cultural barrenness.

Utrecht-based theatre group Aluin is in dire straits. Like all other theatre companies, they cannot do their work, and performances have been postponed or cancelled. That it does not only apply to ongoing tours is now apparent. Performances scheduled for autumn and next spring have also been cancelled. The company reports this in a press release. Alum would... 

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From Fleabag to Game of Thrones à la Hollandaise, Alum does us all a favour with The Dutchmen.

In the days when Europe was still a loose collection of city-states and duchies, where groups of men, for want of football, went on raids a few times a year to burn houses and rape women, a language emerged in the marshlands of the Rhine delta. We know this because plays were written in that language, which is among the earliest preserved... 

Nederland heeft een wrede geschiedenis. Zo maakt Theatergroep Aluin dat voelbaar in ‘1619, maak het kort’.

Nooit geweten dat ik een traantje zou voelen opwellen om het lot van een 17e eeuwse Raadspensionaris. Toch gebeurde dat op vrijdag 21 december, bij de première van ‘1619, maak het kort…’. Met dit slotdeel zet auteur Erik Snel een kroon op zijn trilogie over de Tachtigjarige Oorlog. Was deel 1 (1600, slag bij Nieuwpoort) vooral een vrolijke opeenstapeling van… 

Alum learned the trade in the pub, the best place for any theatre talent

Theatre group Aluin celebrates its 25th anniversary. The company, which originated at the Utrecht acting school, celebrated at the place where it all started: Utrecht's Theatercafé De Bastaard. On Sunday 23 October, they reprised their first ever performance, a play entitled 'It', based on the novella The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James. About a man who thinks he is destined... 

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Performing Arts Fund announces battleground. It's as bad as we feared.

The effects of the previous cabinet's arts cuts are finally becoming clear. The Performing Arts Fund today announced the winners and losers of the battle for four-year subsidies. From 2017, the Dutch art world will be a lot smaller, more meagre and poorer than it was until 2013. Big names are gone, traditions broken down, while what is new faces an extremely uncertain existence.

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Reading theatre yourself. The best way to learn about theatre.

There is one thing almost as much fun as going to see a play. According to some, it is even more fun than going to see a play: reading a play yourself. And then not by yourself, but with a few others. That you divide the roles and start reading aloud. With a cup of tea, coffee or a glass of wine on the side.... 

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Aluin speelt “1600, Slag bij Nieuwpoort”: veelbelovend begin van historische serie

Vandaag werd bekend dat de sinds vijf jaar heropgeleefde Gijsbrecht-traditie wegens gebrek aan subsidie weer stopt. Jammer natuurlijk, al hoeven we ook niet zo hard te rouwen om het einde van deze Amsterdamse gewoonte, die sinds 1638 bestaan heeft. Het stuk is immers totaal onspeelbaar, historisch volledig naast de feiten en al-met-al een nogal pretentieuze weergave van de geschiedenis van… 

The five shows you must see in September

Nederlandse Reisopera, Madama Butterfly (opera), 3 September to 10 October Dutch sopranos are like footballers. They fly halfway around the world, but are only rarely seen in their own country. Take Annemarie Kremer, nominated in Germany as 'Sängerin des Jahres'. The Nederlandse Reisopera is taking her all over the Netherlands in the role that brought her world fame: the title role of Madama ... 

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