Edward Albee comes to Amsterdam to see and discuss his modern classic ‘The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?’ as produced by Mirjam Koen. During Albee’s visit, lead Dutch Theatre Festival juror Clairy Polak will interview the dramatist about his work as a playwright and director.
Fri 11 Sep 20.30 hrs at De Balie.
Your're welcome to visit the Dutch Theatre Festival in Amsterdam www.tf.nl 3 – 13 September 2009 presenting the Dutch and Flemish highlights of the year.
The following shows will be accompanied by English subtitling:Toneel Publieksprijs Nominee: Kamp Holland by Orkater.
Sat 5 Sep 21:00 hrs and Sun 6 Sep 15:00 hrs and 20:30 hrs, Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam
For this, their sixth production with Orkater (the orchestral/theatrical touring company) Geert Lageveen and Leopold Witte leave behind their previous obsessions – the tulip mania of the Golden Age, female psychology and the happiness of children, to name a few – to concentrate exclusively on the condition of Dutch soldiers in the titular Afghanistan camp.
The Broken Circle Breakdown – featuring the ‘cover ups of Alabama’ by Compagnie Cecilia.
Sat 5 and Sun 6 Sep 20:30 hrs, Theater Bellevue, Amsterdam
The subtitular cover ups refer to the tattoos with which Elise, nick-named Alabama, has layered on to obscure the previously-inked names of her former lovers. Accompanied by the sound of a superb country band, Alabama (Mieke Dobbels) is doing much better since she met Monroe (Johan Heldenberg), although the loss of their child to cancer has left an indelible grief. Back to that title: a breakdown is a banjo solo in a bluegrass number. A musical and emotional education, the Compagnie Cecilia’s acclaimed show promises ‘life as a country song’.
De Geit of, Wie is Sylvia? (The Goat or Who is Sylvia?) Edward Albee by Onafhankelijk Toneel.
Tue 8 and Wed 9 Sep 20:30 hrs, Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam
‘How do I tell my wife?’ The scene in which Martin, a New York architect at the top of his professional game, confesses to his wife Stevie that he is cheating on her with a goat named Sylvia, is breathtaking. Writing some 40 years after his career-defining ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’, Albee continues to shows no mercy to his liberal, right-minded and superior leading characters. This modern classic, in which love-for-goats is a metaphor for unfamiliarity with one’s own urges and desires, beautifully crystallises themes of love, faithfulness and accepting the exceptional. Producer Mirjam Koen and actors Bert Luppes and Ria Eimers (who also played George and Martha in ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’) seem to have understood perfectly.
Tien Geboden - Marathon (The Ten Commandments, Dekalog Kieslowksi) by NTGent and Wunderbaum.
Sat 9 Sep 15:00 hrs, Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam
A bum-numbing marathon must-see. In 1988, the Bible’s Ten Commandments were reinterpreted by Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski (he of the acclaimed ‘Three Colours’ series) into ‘Dekalog’, a ten-part television series set in a Warsaw tower block. This brightly-lit stage adaptation by Johan Simons and Koen Tachelet retains the moral dilemmas at its core: My husband is terminally ill. I am pregnant, but not by him; do I keep the child? My son murdered a taxi driver; is the death penalty justified? Big questions for a big production.
Box Office 1. Online: tf.nl
2. Telephone: + 31 (0)20 523 7798 (from 6 August)
3. Box Office: From the Central Festival Box Office in Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam (from 6 August) at Leidesplein
4. Ticket Price: €10,00 - €45,00 (marathon only) per person, per show
Time Out Amsterdam about the festival: "Taking place in Amsterdam between 3 and 13 September, this year’s Dutch Theatre Festival is for anyone hoping to experience the heady highs of 2009 theatre over an intensely rewarding 11 days.
Here’s how it works. – the magnificently refurbished Stadsschouwburg and its boho neighbour the Theater Bellevue – the Dutch Theatre Festival’s expert jury has cherry-picked the very best of the productions which premiered in the Netherlands over the past theatrical season, and invited its stars to return to Amsterdam for a final, triumphant curtain call.
From Edward Albee’s tragicomic meditation on bestiality, ‘The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?’, to the inspired country stylings of ‘Broken Circle Breakdown’, this year’s Dutch Theatre Festival is great news if the surprise hits of the Netherlands’ stage scene escaped your critical radar in 2009, if you’re hankering for a second viewing of that stand-out – or sold out – show, or if your Dutch simply wasn’t up to seeing a Dutch-language production first time around: Approximately half of the jury’s selections are accompanied by English-language subtitles, meaning language really is no problem for anyone wishing to participate.
Aside from the jury-selected programme, another unmissable ‘language-no-problem’ highlight of this performing arts extravaganza is a chance to see war drama Kamp Holland, this time with English subtitles. The nominee of the Toneel Publieksprijs, best theatrical production by the Netherlands’ theatre-going public.
See you at the theatre!" Time Out Amsterdam
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