…we really listening? Are all families dysfunctional? Why aren’t there any theatre plays for deaf people? All these questions and many others were going through my mind while cycling back home after seeing Tribes. It was the first play of the season for me, and the kick-off for Orange Theatre Company. The play, written by Nina Raine, is a compelling exploration of the nature of communication and our need to belong. My review of Tribes It is intens…
Read More…s to Dutch). Fortunately for us, living in Amsterdam means there are a few theatres that offer English speaking performances, so we can still enjoy it. Last week I had the pleasure of watching such a play, at Melkweg. It’s called Volts, and it is put on by Orange Tea Theatre, a group specialising in modern plays in English. It’s been a while since I last saw a play, and this was exactly what I needed: a two-person play on a small stage, with a sma…
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…n the tv. After finishing my acting training, I mostly worked in the Dutch theatre and TV industry. And it’s only in the last few years that I’ve become more involved in the English theatre scene here in Amsterdam. So, your career is doing very well on the Dutch-language scene. When were you introduced to the English one? I was already doing a lot of English voice-over work, but noticed I missed acting in, what I consider to be, my mother tongue….
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As I mentioned before, this autumn is rich in English-spoken theatre plays. Just the other night, I saw the third one on my list: The Importance of Being Earnest, by QETC. I was dead tired after a crazy day at work, I could barely keep my eyes open and all I wanted that evening was to curl up on the couch doing something that wouldn’t require any thinking or human interaction skills (such as watching a stupid TV show). But I didn’t want to miss t…
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…f Computer Drama? How did you come up with the idea of setting up your own theatre company? Anton: Necessity was the mother of invention. I met Brian in 2015 when I cast him in a table read of the IP (“The International Pastime”). We shared a similar history and mindset and became friends. We started looking at the English language theatre companies in Amsterdam and were shocked to see them doing almost exclusively works for the last century or ea…
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…he right note: Bryony Cole, James King, Simon Feilder (for whom this was a theatre debut) and Tessa Stephenson. What did I think about “The God of Carnage”? This dark comedy, written by Yasmina Reza, breaks through the façade of polite social relationships and is a dive through couples’ secrets, repressed hopes and feelings, and the intricate dynamics of parenting. What starts as a polite, although uncomfortable meeting between two sets of parents…
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Queen’s English Theatre Company (QETC) has just finished touring the Netherlands with “Talking Heads” by Alan Bennett. They performed in Leiden, Haarlem, Den Haag, Rotterdam and Amsterdam. Talking Heads is a series of dramatic monologues written for and broadcasted by the BBC, nominated for BAFTA awards no less than thirteen times. QETC brought two of these monologues to the Dutch scene: A Chip in the Sugar (starring Mark Winstanley) and Bed Amon…
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…ter becoming more and more clear to most. My review of “The B Word” Orange Theatre Company seems to have planned the launch of its new play, “The B Word“, as if they knew what was going to happen in November in the UK around this topic. The play, freshly written by John Mabey and Kristine Johanson, follows the lives of a number of people after the Brexit vote and shows how they were impacted by the referendum. It tries to showcase various situatio…
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Orange Theatre Company released its second play of the season on Saturday 26th of May. This time they’ve chosen Martin Mcdonagh’s dark comedy, The Pillowman. A great choice, everyone agreed on that! Who doesn’t like a good dark comedy which gives you goosebumps while you laugh? And of course I went to see it at the Westergastheater, I couldn’t have missed it. My review of “The Pillowman” The action takes place in an unspecified country with a to…
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…eveningen, 7 February- 1 March. The Curious Scrapbook of Josephine Bean, a theatre play from STET The English Theatre. Kiem, by Conny Janssen on 1 February. A show about vitality, about wanting to escape what is holding you back, the urge to break out. Maastricht The Maastricht Carnival , 23-26 February Groningen Lostmovements, from dancers and choreographers Marc Vanrunxt and Jan Martens. The focus lies on the motivation of the movement. More th…
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