During their residence at Frascati, theatre artists Eisa Jocson and Venuri Perera have researched the link between the European history of witch-hunts and the persecution of migrant workers from the Global South today. On 19 and 20 April they present their work in progress. frascatitheater.nl
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Rite of Spring presents two films inspired by existing music compositions, which are performed live by the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Cappella Amsterdam. Brazilian theatre and film maker Christiane Jatahy (this Holland Festival’s associate artist) made a film to accompany Music in Common Time by American composer Caroline Shaw. Greek visual artist and director […]
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Angelica Liddell opens the 78th edition of Festival d’Avignon with an homage to Ingmar Bergman in which she calls on ghosts, demons and nightmares. festival-avignon.com
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Marta Górnicka has created a play based on the testimonies of Ukrainian, Belarusian and Polish mothers and children who have fled war and persecution. festival-avignon.com
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Goddess Change is a reading group by artists Anna Hoetjes and Müge Yılmaz. Participants discuss passages from Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower (1993) and other feminist science fiction texts. The four sessions take place on 23 March, 20 April, 25 May and 22 June, from 15.30 to 17.30 hours. burostedelijk.nl
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Giacomo Puccini composed his Il trittico as a trio of one-act operas, the first evoking horror, the second sadness and the third laughter. Now for the first time, the three short operas are performed together by Dutch National Opera. This concludes the Puccini cycle that conductor Lorenzo Viotti and stage director Barrie Kosky have produced […]
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Roberto Devereux by Italian belcanto composer Gaetano Donizetti is the story of the love between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex. The role of Sir Gualtiero Raleigh is played by Mark Kurmanbayev, one of the participants of the Ammodo-supported Dutch National Opera Studio. operaballet.nl
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An old Armenian folktale about the search for harmony comes to life in a concert on a moving stage with a light show. hollandfestival.nl
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HARDKOOR is a ‘stand-up tragedy concert’ and a ‘stream of self-consciousness’ to techno, triphop and choir music. hollandfestival.nl
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Soloists, visual projections and electronics meet in a hallucinatory space, where the audience is free to roam. hollandfestival.nl
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Choreographer Trajal Harrell’s The Romeo imagines a dance for people of all origins, genders and generations, of all tempers and moods. hollandfestival.nl
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After a racist incident in a football stadium, actor and theatre writer Clayton Nascimento delves into the origins of the racism he encounters every day. hollandfestival.nl
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British theatre company Forced Entertainment plays with text, music and physical action in a new work that is both light and dead serious. hollandfestival.nl
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In Christiane Jatahy’s unconventional interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic, Hamlet wakes up as a grown woman. hollandfestival.nl
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Two contemporary music theatre pieces on one evening: Eight Songs for a Mad King (1969) about the insanity of King George III of England and The Kafka-Fragments (1987), a succession of forty miniatures expressing Kafka’s existential anxiety. Directed by Barrie Kosky. festival-aix.com Pictured: portrait of Franz Kafka
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The biblical opera Samson (1733) was the result of an ambitious collaboration between Voltaire and Jean-Philippe Rameau, but has unfortunately been lost to history. Claus Guth and Raphaël Pichon have taken on the challenge of reconstructing this forgotten piece about Samson, the chosen one of God. festival-aix.com Pictured: The Blinded Samson, Lovis Corinth, 1912
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Eline Arbo’s stage adaptation of The Laws, Connie Palmen’s debut novel about a woman searching for herself. ita.nl
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Young British director Rebecca Frecknall creates a contemporary adaptation of August Strindberg’s famous play. ita.nl
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The famous 1985 play about a secret encounter between two people by Bernard-Marie Koltès, performed by John Malkovich and Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė. Directed by Timofey Kulyabin. ita.nl
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In this production about the life of Greek Roma, directors Anestis Azas and Prodromos Tsinikoris walk the line between documentary and fiction. ita.nl
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Love to Death by Lemi Ponifasio is a performance that centres around the narrative of the Chilean Mapuche people. ita.nl
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Theatre adaptation of the novel The Eighth Life (for Brilka) by Georgian writer Nino Haratischvili, directed by Nina Spijkers. A monumental family epic spanning six generations between 1900 and now. oostpool.nl
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S*an D. Henry-Smith performs live in the Central Space of Buro Stedelijk, in context of the group exhibition Descent into Fungal. burostedelijk.nl
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