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Steven Michel and Viktor Caudron in 'Victor'

Victor, beautiful duet about contemporary male danger

Putting a man and a boy on stage together - upper body bared; in today's times, that means asking for trouble. Our gaze, saturated by paedophilia scandals, leaves little in the way of intimacy between what could also be father and son, brothers or friends. But 'Victor' by choreographer Jan Martens and director Peter Seynaeve is no good, politically correct repartee. In their search for a loving look at the relationship between husband and child, they also consistently push the boundaries of what is permissible.

Theatres take matters into their own hands

Omdat de regering het hele circuit van productiehuizen en vervolgopleidingen om zeep heeft geholpen, zijn zeven theaters in het gat gesprongen. Zij slaan de handen inéén om een aantal 'jonge' makers in staat te stellen om toch hun werk te ontwikkelen. Door van tevoren al een aantal voorstellingen te kopen een een klein ontwikkelbudget ter beschikking te stellen kunnen zij met zijn zevenen per seizoen twee makers aan het werk zetten.
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Porn, movement and politics seek each other at festival Something Raw

For more than a decade, Something Raw has been one of the few places in the Netherlands where the question of artistic and social urgency of the body is explored on stage, with all the fun and risk involved. Many performances struggled with the 'impasse of display': have people then become mere things to look at? Porn is the... 

Successful Holland Festival closes record edition amid uncertainty over future

Photo: Pierre Nydegger To conclude. The 2011 Holland Festival could well be historic. Not only was it the festival that attracted the most audiences for years, it was also the festival that took place while a minority government of populists, nationalists and materialists proclaimed the end of art subsidies. We therefore look back on a festival in which we were able to meet with... 

#HF11: We chat with Jeroen Stout, Daniël Bertina, Fransien vd Putt and Wijbrand Schaap.

  In conclusion. The 2011 Holland Festival could well be historic. Not only was it the festival that attracted the most audiences for years, it was also the festival that took place while a minority government of populists, nationalists and materialists proclaimed the end of art subsidies. We therefore look back on a festival in which we had a great time with our new... 

#HF11: Japanese company canteen leads to hallucinatory tragedy of incapacity

In very different places, people can sometimes have the same idea. And even more sometimes, those similar ideas both lead to something wonderful. A few years ago, thanks to Brabant theatre Bis, mime company Kassys performed the beautifully sad tragedy 'Kommer', in which colleagues spent pointless time in a funeral room full of lease plants. Every gratuitous phrase was magnified by powerfully helpless gestures to the... 

Death Horse puts on bold shoes and waves goodbye to Shakespeare in 'Bye Bye'

Foto: Sanne Peper Het Amsterdamse gezelschap Dood Paard vertaalde zelf Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’ en zwaait met ‘Bye Bye’ de bard uit. Het eigenzinnige collectief brengt een anderhalve uur durende actuele zedenschets en zielenspiegel, waarin wijzen naar ‘De Ander’ centraal staat. Shakespeare’s stukken worden nogal eens heel eerbiedig opgevoerd. . De bewierookte ‘bard’ uit Stratford-upon-Avon heeft de Engelse taal bovendien talloze uitdrukkingen… 

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