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TOBIAS KOKKELMANS NEW DIRECTOR/DIRECTOR NEDERLANDS THEATRE FESTIVAL AND AMSTERDAM FRINGE FESTIVAL

Vandaag maakte de Raad van Toezicht bekend dat Tobias Kokkelmans per 1 september is aangesteld als de nieuwe directeur/bestuurder van Stichting de Theaterdagen, organisator van het Nederlands Theater Festival, Amsterdam Fringe Festival, NTFJong en het verdiepingsplatform voor professionals NTF-Pro. Hij volgt hiermee Jeffrey Meulman op, die in mei van dit jaar na zestien jaar de Stichting verruilde voor de Verkadefabriek… 

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A new layer of management is not going to solve Theatre Rotterdam's problems

Rotterdam and theatre, quite tricky. I should know, I was born there and it was a subject of several working groups during my Theatre Science studies in the 1980s. Since the last theatre reform, a merger where independent performers would work together to provide all the special theatre in Rotterdam, but... 

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La Codista is an endearing ode to waiting, with a fine layer underneath #HF21

Het is altijd fijn om te weten dat er iemand op je wacht. Bedrijven die zeldzame dingen aanbieden, ambtenaren die zeer gewilde stempels te zetten hebben, allemaal hebben ze hun geluk en hun inkomen te danken aan mensen die op hen willen wachten. Het wachten zelf is natuurlijk ook iets waar je een leven omheen kunt bouwen. Er zijn mensen… 

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Rainer Hofmann (SPRING): 'After the populist attack from the right, the performing arts now face an attack from the left.'

Thursday 17 May opens SPRING Performing Arts Festival in Utrecht with, among others, Sic Transit Gloria Mundi by Dries Verhoeven and to come (extended) by Mette Ingvartsen. Over ten days, more than twenty-five international dance and theatre productions, installations and performance works will be on show in public spaces and urban environments. A week earlier, festival director Rainer Hofmann looks relaxed. 'Until now... 

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Wunderbaum provokes revulsion with sacred performance about North Sea cruise at Theatre Festival Boulevard

Wie jong is, een beetje leuk opgeleid en verder in het algemeen van goeden huize, gaat niet op een cruise over de Noordzee. Een cruise op de Noordzee, dat doe je als je geen fantasie hebt, slecht ter been of te ziek voor iets anders. Vindt Wunderbaum. Het theatercollectief dat zich graag ontfermt over de kwetsbaren van deze planeet is… 

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So you'll never leave Den Bosch again (why holidays in your own country can be fun)

Would like your interpretation of the cover girl's look on the Theatre Festival Boulevard programme book. It may be projection, but I see a slightly overwhelmed desperation in those eyes, whose eyebrows have been replaced by two playfully placed arches of St John's, above: Den Bosch on my mind. Where to start, mostly. In the book, especially abundance. Glassily designed... 

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Don't leave respect to the free market

The SER report published on Friday 21 April rubs it in nicely: the cultural sector is on the verge of collapse. It is even worse than a year ago. This shows that the patience of a PvdA culture minister over the past four years has not helped. Indeed, Halbe Zijlstra's multiplier of misery is doing its job entirely as expected.... 

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Our actors are burnt out, audiences have lost their way. Save the theatre!

Dit stuk gaat me heel veel vrienden kosten, maar het moet er even uit. Het gaat namelijk slecht met de toneelsector. En ik zie steeds beter waar dat aan ligt. En dat is nu eens niet Halbe Zijlstra. Of de VVD, of de bevolking, of Nederland in het algemeen, dan wel de tijdgeest. En het ligt ook niet aan Netflix… 

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Ça ira (1) Fin de Louis, Joël Pommerat, foto: Elisabeth Carecchio.

Op de rand van Europa trekt Holland Festival 86.000 bezoekers #HF16

Ruth Mackenzie heeft nieuw elan gebracht in het Holland Festival. Niet dat haar voorganger Pierre Audi het slecht deed, maar het Britse organisatietalent heeft wel gezorgd voor actualiteit en urgentie in het programma. Toen zij haar programmathema bedacht, zal ook zij niet hebben kunnen vermoeden dat het begrip ‘Edges of Europe’ zo’n lading zou krijgen. Immers, tegelijk met het laatste weekend van het festival besloot de Engelse bevolking tegen de zin van iedereen behalve de Welsh, de Europese Unie achter zich te laten. Nederland ligt opeens aan de uiterste rand van Europa, met alleen nog zicht op het verre Ierland.

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Wunderbaum sends you into the night with a smile #HF16

This year's Holland Festival spotlights Rotterdam-based theatre collective Wunderbaum with the revival of 'The Coming of Xia', premieres of 'Privacy' and 'The Future of Sex' and the film 'Stop acting now'. With this film, Wunderbaum concludes their four-year project 'The New Forest', a 'Platform for social change', according to Wunderbaum, "The New Forest depicts transition and casts a... 

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Stella actors Oscar Batterham and Richard Cant © Matthew Hargraves

Neil Bartlett's Stella: so perfect it's a bit irritating #HF16

The smallest details speak for themselves. For the second time during this edition of the Holland Festival, the legendary BBC series This Life comes along. Richard Cant, who plays a flawless lead role in Neil Bartlett's play Stella, has previously appeared in This Life, the series that set the standard for the modern docusoap in 1996. So now live, up close, in De Brakke Grond's Red Hall, the man who also played a solid role in Midsomer Murders.

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Grunberg doesn't come out of his hole in The Future of Sex #HF16

Woody Allen made sure in 1972 that his fans could not watch Star Wars with dry eyes years later. The final scene of his film 'Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex, But Were Afraid To Ask' shows us the male brain as the bridge of a Star Cruiser where the crew is hard at work to bring a date to a successful conclusion. The spermatozoa in the front are a squabbling gang of take-off runners, heading for an uncertain descent towards beating egg.

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Tantalising intimacy porn in 'Privacy' raises relevant questions #HF16

Wine Dierickx ( Wunderbaum) and Ward Weemhoff (The Hot Shop) are an artist couple and we will know it. Engaging and with humour, they take us into their private lives or that which we think that is their private life. Know after all, we don't do it.

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Wunderbaum sows beautiful doubt in Mijke de Jong's 'Stop Acting Now' (HF16)

Wunderbaum. Among lovers of fresh and young theatre, this collective of creators stirred something up at the beginning of this century. They were born and bred under the wings of Johan Simons, where they formed the youth team of his legendary theatre group Hollandia. And because back then, every young maker really had to do something with the world, JongHollandia, later Wunderbaum, wanted the same. But because they lived in the post-ideological era and saw every day how the ideals of their teachers, parents and mentors came to nothing, it mainly became a club of doubters. And they were very good at that.

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Theatre Rotterdam is going to do it all over again

On Monday 14 March, Theatre Rotterdam will present its plans for the upcoming arts plan period. On Thursday 10 March, Bianca van der Schoot already told about it during a public meeting with a class of Utrecht theatre scholars. What became clear from her story is that she has little desire to start bringing world repertoire with the old Ro theatre share in Theatre Rotterdam. She has a lot of... 

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Holland Festival 2016: urgent, challenging and inviting

Never before has the Holland Festival placed itself at the centre of society as it is today. The 2016 programme is steeped in the turbulent times in which we live. The Netherlands holds the presidency of the European Union this spring. Artistic director Ruth Mackenzie has taken this fact unflinchingly to give 'Europe' a wide place in the programming. In presenting... 

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Grand Theatre disaster update: Performing Arts Fund saves creators from bankruptcy

The misery in Groningen is a bit bigger than we thought. Meanwhile, the Grand Theatre appears to be at least 250,000 in the red. And counting. Money that the theatre subsidised by the city of Groningen owes mainly to artists. Choreographer Dunja Djocic, for instance, had received €90,000 in subsidies to create performances at the Grand for 2 years. Theatre-maker Andreas Denk had received... 

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Joop Daalmeijer Marathon (5) "All balls on Amsterdam", I'm not into that at all.

Wijbrand Schaap: 'Now on the role of cities. One of the reactions on our site is about the role of the randstad in cultural policy. Melle Daamen puts the primacy in the randstad, and goes further than the council in this.' Joop Daalmeijer: 'The council has no position yet.' Wijbrand Schaap: 'But there is something in the Culture Outlook. Cities form... 

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De beste vrouw op de beste plek: Ellen Walraven directeur Rotterdamse Schouwburg

Dit was een mogelijkheid, waaraan in eerste instantie niet zoveel mensen dachten. Ellen Walraven was immers na haar tropenjaren als directeur van het Amsterdamse debatcentrum De Balie toe aan wat meer inhoudelijk werk en rust aan haar hoofd, Dus vermoedden we dat ze nog wel een tijdje zou blijven zitten in

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Baldwin Live

On Wednesday 1 August 2012, the Performing Arts Fund will announce the results of the lottery that granting arts subsidies has now become. Huge cuts are looming: companies and creators that by now seemed to be a permanent part of the Dutch arts landscape will disappear. Exactly what it will look like, we know

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Nearly dies Wunderbaum's Detroit Dealers from an overdose of ideas, but survives through unexpected musicality #HF12

In Detroit Dealers, Wunderbaum mixes a personal family story with the decline of Detroit, once one of the most influential industrial cities in the world, and philosophical musings on the car, as a romantic metaphor of progress and the American Dream. The show swings in all directions. Detroit Dealers is part documentary film, jazz concert, performance, spoken word poetry, rap battle, and theatre. This overdose of... 

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Tien theatervoorstellingen die u volgens de jury van het Nederlands Theaterfestival niet had mogen missen. Mee eens?

U  lag natuurlijk met zijn allen in de rij voor die legendarische Richard III van Orkater met muziek van Tom Waits. Of u had zich opgesloten bij het kleine zaal juweeltje ‘Till the fat lady sings’ van Oostpool, of u wilde gewoon geen aflevering van O O Cherso en The Voice of Holland missen. Enfin: nu weet u wat u… 

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Kees Hulst en Maria Kraakman winnen Louis d’Or en Theo d’Or op ‘prijzencircus’ Gala van het Nederlands Theater #tf2010

Op het Gala van het Nederlands Theater in de Amsterdamse Stadsschouwburg zijn gisteravond de belangrijkste toneelprijzen uitgereikt. Kees Hulst won de Louis d’Or voor de meest indrukwekkende mannelijke hoofdrol, de rol van Jörgen Hofmeester in’ Tirza’ bij het Nationale Toneel. Maria Kraakman won de Theo d’Or voor de meest indrukwekkende vrouwelijke dragende rol, Orlando in de gelijknamige productie van Toneelgroep Oostpool. Het stuk ‘Oog om Oog’, met onder meer Linda van Dyck en Victor Löw, won de AVRO Toneel Publieksprijs.

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