SEASON 2011-2012
A location project on the Isle of
Marken in the summer of 2012:
theatre - music - walk and a gorgeous 3 course dinner with special
theatrical treats to end your visit to the island. Also suitable for
deaf audiences and a lot of shows are without text, so everybody, also
non Dutch speaking audiences (above 10) can enjoy it.
(the page linked will be translated soon in English)
Red Earth in Cape Town
The artistic team worked in Cape Town and brought the set, puppets, costumes and props. They rehearsed there, and after that transferred everything to the two actors Tau Qwelane and Macebo Mavuso, At the same time there were workshops and a lecture/presentation of Speeltheater work.
The workshops were given to a group of young people from the townships. They were also 'guest actors' in the last three performances in Observatory, Cape Town.
You can see some impressions on our Youtube kanaal: Speeltheater.
Thanks to the Assitej and Unima SA this was made possible. Laway Arts did produce this together with Speeltheater Holland.
BREAKING NEWS
After almost 40 years the two artistic leaders of Speeltheater Holland,
Onny Huisink and Saskia Janse, have decided to turn over the theatre in
2013 to a younger generation: the talented young group Het Houten Huis.
In the past years they have been collaborating with this group and their
last performance together, 'Adios' won the Golden Cricket Award
for most impressive performance 2010-2011. The two artistic leaders have
great confidence of this new group and are sure their theatre will be in
good hands and many beautiful productions will be born and developed
in Edam from January 2013. Onny Huisink and Saskia Janse will go on as
independent artists as director playwright, designers . They will also
be active as teachers in workshops and master classes puppetry to train
and teach their skills to young actors and puppeteers.
from januari 2013 in Edam!
Speeltheater Holland started its 'final season' with the following productions:
ADIOS
september 2011
BENJAMIN and the Pillow Saga
23 oktober 2011 - 31 januari
2012
RED EARTH
in South Afrika november,
december 2011
WHITE RABBIT RED
RABBIT, a Connecting
Stories project
MYSTERIES on MARKEN
zomer 2012
ROCK PAPER SCISSORS
in Tempe, Arizona USA fall 2012
based on the children's book 'Benjamin and the Pillow Saga' by Stéphane Poulin
till the end of January 2012
ROCK PAPER SCISSORS will go
to the United States
Based on the script
Rock Paper Scissors by Corey Madden/Laural Meade, commissioned and World Premiere
presented at Childsplay, Inc, Tempe, Arizona, USA
In 2012 we will coproduce this play with Childsplay, Tempe, AZ.
© Geert Snoeier
David Dickinson, Jon Gentry and Ralph Rousseau
CONNECTING STORIES:
In December we had an intensive week in the
Netherlands with all the members of the Connecting Stories group during
the Dancing on the Edge Festival, with the presentation of the
performance of Man is Man by Reza Gouran. All members were present. See
for more information on the
Connecting Stories page
Our last meeting was in Chicago during the TCG (Theatre
Communications Group) conference in June 2010, where we did present the
project to the American theatre people present. In 2012
Speeltheater Holland wants to produce the play: White Rabbit, Red Rabbit
by the Iranian writer Nassim Soleimanpour. We did meet Nassim at the
Fadjr festival in 2009. His play had successful runs before in Toronto
and Edinburgh.
WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT
I was born on Azar 19th, 1360 in Tehran.
That’s Tehran, December 10th, 1981 in
Christian years ... ’ Imagine being 29
and forbidden to leave your country.
Nassim Soleimanpour dissects the
experience of a whole generation in a
wild, utterly original play from Iran.
Forbidden to travel, he turns his
isolation to his own advantage with a
play that requires no director, no set
and a different actor for every
performance.