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Life is wonderfully absurd, and Elias de Bruyne makes fine theatre about it.

In de voorbereiding van mijn verslaggeving over Theaterfestival Boulevard had ik ook ‘interview met Elias de Bruyne’ op mijn verlanglijstje gezet. Het kwam er niet van, en dat is achteraf maar gelukkig, want Cornald Maas was mij voor. Althans, Cornald Maas interviewt Elias de Bruyne tijdens diens voorstelling ‘Euhm… In 5 bedrijven’, die zaterdag 5 augustus in première ging.  Goed,… 

Lecture Jetse Batelaan: Lessons in trust to a world in panic

Op 21 december geeft Jetse Batelaan, regisseur bij Artemis, een lezing in het Trippenhuis in Amsterdam. Met beeldfragmenten laat hij zijn ontwikkeling als theatermaker zien en deelt hij de inzichten die hij daarbij heeft opgedaan: van zijn aanvankelijke ongemak met drama en conflict tot zijn overtuiging dat het belangrijk is om kinderen en pubers paniek te laten ervaren in de… 

Jetse Batelaan and Bambie otherwise do quite well together in youth theatre

We like to play by the rules. That's quite OK if you're driving through a historic city centre in a tractor or truck combination, for instance, but it gets tricky when the rules stop obeying themselves one day. The actors of the rather physical theatre group Bambie, Paul van der Laan, Jochem Stavenuiter and Tessa Jonge Poerink, have worked with... 

Back to the primal power of magic, through youth theatre. With thanks to Jetse Batelaan.

Plays often end in chaos. An overturned liquor cabinet, a blood blade among royals, we're used to a few things. Jetse Batelaan's latest play, baroque and sharper than he showed before, also ends in beauty, but then that is actually the beginning. Indeed, the ending is sterile and stripped of any life. But that is where the performance begins. The artistic director of... 

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