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“I have a responsibility to my students,” says playwright Don Duyns. As Artistic Director of Writing for Performance at Hogeschool Utrecht, Duyns will be present at tomorrow’s playwrit-ing debate, which will

“My name is Deerri. I am a child and the leader of the group,” says Keja Kwestro of Artez Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, performing Dennis Potter’s Blue Remembered Hills on Thursday. “I am spoiled and selfish. I want things done my way and others have to play by my rules. But then some guy Bobby beats me, and puts me in my place. In this play we try to show how a child interacts with other children. I think it’s a very interesting role. The main thing is that you cannot play like a child – I mean, you can’t just act childlike, it has to be convincing. The trick is not to pay attention to the others; you are the one who needs the attention. You have to play the part of a selfish person in front of your fellow actors. It is especially hard to do this with your classmates. My own childhood was pretty much like Deerri’s and I found myself resembling the char-acter a lot. I always wanted more and so does Deerri. It’s never enough, she wants to own everything.” (GM)

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TOMORROW on 25 june. If you have any questions about

applying for subsidies, the speeddate can

give you the answers.

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or at the Compagnietheater.

nl vs cm!“All’s fair in love and

war” wrote the english Renaissance

poet john Lyly (1553-1606).

Theatre is Love. Football is War.

Go see for yourself. Today at the

Compagnietheater The netherlands will

battle Cameroon.

At 8:15pm.

Blue rememBered hills preview

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everybody loves the sunshine!

23 degrees of sunrays, and no clouds!

programme change No changes.

programme thursday june 24nd 2010 Acting

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As lovers of theatre, we think we know William Shake-speare’s legendary play Mac-beth. Ok, we may know the play, but every performance is different: it’s a living cre-ative work. It’s not imita-tion. Surprisingly, Macbeth by our guests from Tarbiat Modares Univerity in Iran, which will be performed on 25 June in Theater Bel-levue, greatly depends on body language, gestures and traditional Iranian music. They use cinematic tech-niques like flashbacks, slow motion, and close ups. The artistic team was more than willing to elaborate on this topic, but when asked about the contents of their work and how they feel art plays

a role in society, they evaded the question. Director Reza Servati did not want to give a ‘political’ reply. About Mac-beth he said: “The one who orders the murderer to kill, the murderer himself and the victim – they all move in the same circle. Life is full of anger and volition. Because of this, life is meaningless.” But can’t art provide a space to express yourself, when all other doors are closed? Servati replied with a smile: “If you would like to know more, you should see the performance”. (MeF)

macbeth25 Junetheater Bellevue, 5:30 pm

toneelmuziektheater

dans

jeugdtheater

mimeoperakleinkunst

kunstbeleidabonneer je via

www.theatermaker.nl

TM is een 10 maal per jaar

verschijnend tijdschrift over

toneel, muziektheater, dans,

jeugdtheater, mime, opera,

kleinkunst en kunstbeleid.

TM signaleert de belangrijkste

ontwikkelingen in de podium-

kunsten en presenteert die in

de vorm van beschouwingen,

interviews, portretten, analyses

en columns.

colofon writing staff: Michiel Bulthuis (MB), Mustafa el Faroog (MeF), eveleen Hamers (eH), jas-mina Ibrahimovic (jI), Henk de jong (Hdj), Ilona de jong (Idj), Asja Krsmanovic (AK), Adi Lucic (AL), Getoarbe Mulliqi (GM), Anna Peschke (AP), jordean Sumner (jS) editor in chief: daniël Bertina (domein voor Kunstkritiek) coordinator: Ingrid Straathof (ITs Festival) project leader: nynke Oele (domein voor Kunstkritiek) cover photo: Tobias nierop graphic design: Tirza Teule printed by Copy Copy Amsterdam made possible by SnS Reaal Fonds and Stichting nORMA.

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dwed Voorstelling van HKu op het #ITS10 doorstaan. 90min publikumsbeschimpfung, mij wat veel. Zielige eenzame man genoemd, door lief meisje. Au. 58 minutes ago replydinHajder ja geschiedenis is geschreven! Ik heb iets gewonnen! 2 kaartjes voor 2 voorstellingen ITs festival Amsterdam! Thanks #nrcnext 6 hours ago replyhdejo de taken zijn verdeeld. nu wachten op Women of Troy om 14 uur... #ITS10 7 hours ago replykouters nu #its10 recensie schrijven. Helaas de Arnhemse studenten nog niet gezien, maar die spelen te laat (morgen) voor in de krant. about 11 hours ago via Tweetdeck

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untitled18.30 (page 7)

artesis hogeschool antwerpen

football on big screen cameroon-nether lands20.30

act café22.30 - 23.15

afterparty:chocolate Brown23.15 - 01.00(page 4)

Blue remembered hills15.00 & 18.30, (page 7)

arteZ hogeschool voor de kunsten

the makers present dance20.30 120 min. (page 11)

Kom op! ga af!16.30,45 min. (page 18)

hogeschool voor de kunsten utrecht

carnaval de musical / het stuk dat je gezien had moeten hebben theatrical readings14.00, 130 min. (page 19)playwriting debate17.30

hogeschool voor de kunsten utrecht

be at 5.30 pm in the Rozentheater. “When I’m teaching, I refer to my own experience, but also look at the field to see what is needed now. We try to create di-verse skills so that each playwright will have

a unique voice. I want writers to be open to the action that is going to accompany their words. They need to learn how to be at ease in the the-atre.” (JS)

Blue remembered Hills, 24 june, frascati 1, 3.00 pm & 6.30 pm

don duyns - playwright

the weather report!

more at act cafÉ during the legendary football match, members of ACT will run the bar while

ricky Koole & Band will play their hits. All at the Compagnietheater, starting at 8:15pm.

its intimatethe iranian macBeth

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Journalist and playwright:Gert-jan Stam

in defence of messingaBout

“This play, Westkaai by Toneelacademie Maastricht, is mostly about the emptiness people experience and their need to com-municate. Yet they don’t know how and, as a result, they get caught up in all the darkness that surrounds them. Visually, this is quite a simple performance, but this puts the interest-ing playtext into focus. The lighting effectively focused our at-tention on the most important part of the play, which I think was the quality of the acting. The group of actors built very strong characters, and successfully guided them to the end of the play. All characters were very distinctive and all had their own specific physical leitmotif, which made the performance very recognizable. In my opinion, that is the strongest part of Westkaai.” – Niels Lemmens, actor from Utrecht. (AK)

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afterparty dj chocolate BrownFor those who missed it: yesterday’s edition of the ITs Afterparty was a musical adventure with dj

Mr. Speak. ‘I am who I am and do what I do’ is Mr. Speak’s motto, and with that in mind he brought

his mixture of soul, funk, hiphop, house, disco, dubstep, R&B, jazz, afro and latin to the (turn)table.

‘A crazy musical evening mix,’ according to Mr. Speak himself. Tomorrow, get ready for dj Chocolate

Brown. He will liven up the Compagnietheater after 11pm with his energetic mix of soulful, funky and

jazzy grooves. “It doesn’t matter if it’s house, soul, funk, hiphop, latin or jazz. Or something along

those lines – I’ll play it!” says Chocolate Brown. He’ll take the audience from the classics to now, with

original and appealing jams, covered with a thick layer of chocolate. Because, he tells us: “everybody

loves chocolate!” (AL)

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When I say ‘ITs’, in my head it’s always followed by: The Muppet Show! There are those who cannot appre-ciate the Muppet Show. These often wretched indi-viduals cannot appreciate the never-ending messing about of the Muppets, can-not fathom that when one Muppet is playing a roman-tic nocturne, another feels the need to enhance the performance with a few exploding maracas. And just that messing about is ITs’s charm. The festival is a unique event for watch-ing theatre makers mess about. In the best sense of the word: trying for trying’s sake. From begin-nings without endings to broken records. All these non-conforming whimsi-calities that make theatre exciting. This effervescent creativity of theatre tal-ents often cools down as fast as it came. Let us, the audience, encourage them to keep messing about till the end of their careers! And when so called experts feel that they are messing about, they should take that as an encouragement to mess about a little more. dear theatre talents: to hell with that serious talk. Be a Muppet!

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Olivia and John’s son died. He fell, like the oranges fall from the tree in their garden. In theatre text The Orange Dream by Robin N. Duits, the audience is witnessing a dialogue be-tween a father and a mother, who are trying to go back to being husband and wife. Olivia and John address each other in third person singular. When they talk about each other and about themselves, they consistently use the aloof form ‘he’ and ‘she’, which makes the unbridgeable gap between the two very tangible. A gap that is starting to become frus-trating, both for the audience and the characters. The con-sistent use of third person does facilitate exceptions that mark the crucial scenes. Like the little play they act out to-gether, in which John plays the undertaker who is taking Olivia’s measurement for her coffin. Despite the fact that this was a reading rather than a performance, the aloofness fitted the style of the text surprisingly well. Oh, what the h***, I’d call it a performance any day. (JI)

women of troyreview

“The terrorists are among us! But there is a solution: brand-ing! Only then will we be able to spot the rotten apples. And the politicians have agreed already.” The actors from Hoge-school voor de Kunsten Utrecht present a confronting play, which addresses the audience in an awkwardly direct way. This graduation performance – Mark Ravenhill’s The Women of Troy, directed by Jeroen de Man – causes great disorder. For having the actors – Anne Fé de Boer, Jiska van Duijn, Martin Willem van Duijn, Hiske Eriks and Djamila Landbrug – rub your nose in the fact that you are responsible for the atrocities in this world, makes you feel rather uncomfort-able. The line between right and wrong is a mere cobweb. The actors – the women in particular – give their all when they show their anger and disgust, but in their display of pain and happiness as well. As the play progresses, their acting becomes more and more hysterical and, as a result, more comical. The end will make you frown: the indignation and great sadness from before, suddenly make way for cha-otic dancing – with pink paint and vanilla custard. (HdJ)

the orange dream - writing for performance

review

“To give the audience a good shaking,” Marcel Harte-veld answers when asked what he is trying to achieve through theatre. He and Johan Fretz make up the double act Gebroeders Fretz. Together they make comical musical theatre. They em-ploy their passion – music and cabaret – to entertain the audience, but they also want to convey a story when they are on stage. “We feel a responsibility to commu-nicate with the audience,” Johan says. “As theatre mak-ers we’re constantly aware of what’s happening around us. By showing this on stage, we are trying to trigger people: force them to reflect upon society.”But the Gebroeders Fretz are mainly on stage because of their passion for the-atre. Marcel lives for music and Johan was born to be a cabaret performer. Half of Toneelschool Amsterdam and the Kleinkunstacad-emie thought they had lost

it when they called in Youp van ‘t Hek to help them with Over Lijken, their first full evening’s show. But Youp ac-cepted. That was merely the

beginning. Both are starring in the group graduation per-formance Look Closer and in their own production Onder-weg. (IdJ)

its fretZ Look closer, 25 June, Kleine Komedie , 8:15 pm

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