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Steven Michel and Viktor Caudron in 'Victor'

Victor, beautiful duet about contemporary male danger

by Fransien van der Putt
16 May 20138 July 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL, DANS

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.

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Theatres take matters into their own hands

by one of our members
16 January 201330 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

As the government has killed the entire circuit of production houses and further education, seven theatres have jumped into the gap. They are joining forces to enable a number of 'young' makers to develop their work after all. By offering a number of performances in advance

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Porn, movement and politics seek each other at festival Something Raw

by Fransien van der Putt
15 February 20128 July 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL

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...

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Successful Holland Festival closes record edition amid uncertainty over future

by one of our members
26 June 20118 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

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...

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

by one of our members
25 June 201113 February 2019
3 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS

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...

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

by Wijbrand Schaap
13 June 201113 February 2019
2 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS

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...

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

by one of our members
21 March 201129 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Amsterdam-based company Dood Paard itself translated Shakespeare's 'Othello' and waves goodbye to the bard with 'Bye Bye'. The quirky collective performs a one-and-a-half-hour topical comedy of manners and soul mirror, in which pointing at 'The Other' is central. Shakespeare's plays are quite often performed quite reverently. . Moreover, the adored 'bard' from Stratford-upon-Avon has bestowed on the English language countless expressions that have come to...

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