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Toneelmakerij

Pr-picture The Toneelmakerij by Rachel Schraven

Paul Knieriem on his Hamlet for Amsterdam youth: 'Here you feel what representation and recognition does to a room'.

Half maart ging ik kijken bij de Hamlet van de Toneelmakerij, een voorstelling die speciaal was gemaakt in en voor Amsterdam-West. Ik had wat vragen over die voorstelling, schreef ik in de recensie, en die vragen zouden we bespreken in een podcast met Abdelkader Benali, de bewerker van de tekst, en Paul Knieriem, de regisseur. Anderhalf uur voor de opname… 

Scene image of Hamlet by Sanne Peper

Why is this fascinating play, about the world of Amsterdam West, called Hamlet?

I had to think for a while before I wrote something about the Hamlet performance that is now showing to an audience of mostly high school students in Amsterdam West. That was because I was sitting in the auditorium, on a legendarily uncomfortable stand in a fine frayed-edge breeding ground, among a schoolchildren's audience that sat watching in full attention for almost two hours, while at... 

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