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Rashif El Kaoui: A Versatile Storyteller With a Fluid Identity
16 May 2022
In recent years, few artists have traversed the field quite like Rashif El Kaoui: writer, podcaster, rapper, actor, resident at the Brussels city theatre, teacher, and workplace educator. Yet there is one constant across his work: the love for language. Portrait of a versatile “bastard” who sear
Competitive Nature Ensures Popularity of Improvisational Theatre in the Netherlands and Belgium
7 December 2021
Since the end of the 1980s, improvisational theatre, or improv, has seen an impressive uptake, in the Netherlands, but even more so in Belgium, and then especially in Wallonia. Its competitive, gaming element is remarkable. The form ‘theatresports’, imported from England, is popular in the Nethe
De Warme Winkel Brings Ironic Theatre About the Burning Issues of Our Time
26 November 2021
In one and the same performance a naked actor is unable to read his lines due to the physical violence of a colleague and an impeccably turned-out quintet sings classical madrigals to a world-class standard. You may have walked in on a performance by the Amsterdam collective De Warme Winkel (The Hot
Wunderbaum Ruthlessly Stirs the World’s Soul and Their Own
23 November 2021
The members of Rotterdam theatre collective Wunderbaum don’t really play characters on stage. On the contrary, they present the many ambivalent roles of their own lives. In other words, the boundary between their own lives and acting is intentionally kept thin. In doing so, Wunderbaum depict situa
Camping Sunset Makes Classic Theatre Repertoire Exciting Again
20 October 2021
A traditional stage repertoire performed to a wide audience by a large ensemble might sound rather old-fashioned. The young theatre collective Camping Sunset from Ghent, however, has proven that old and new, traditional repertoire and rock-’n-roll, truly can go hand in hand.
From Simple Movement to Mythical Feat, the Uncompromising Theatre of Schwalbe
20 October 2021
A crowd continually run laps of a stage, a small group of mime artists busily cycle to keep a stage light on, actors tear one another’s clothes off. Meet the radical, uncompromising theatre of Schwalbe, a collective that sprang from Amsterdam’s mime school.
Big and Grand. The Indomitable Imagination of FC Bergman
14 October 2021
With their extraordinarily imaginative, poetic, grand-scale productions, the Antwerp theatre collective FC Bergman was quick to conquer the European stage. The focal point of their performances is the floundering human, on the point of losing his grip on his environment, whose naïve attempts to rem
Big Issues for Young People: Maas Theater and Dance
20 June 2019
Rotterdam-based Maas Theater and Dance, the only Dutch youth theatre company with its very own playhouse and programming, is known for staging extraordinary productions. Their performances are aimed at young people, but equally at adults who are willing to let their inner child come out and play.
The Making Of: Orestes in Ghent and Mosul
18 June 2019
A vicious circle of revenge and retaliation, seemingly impossible to break; that is just one of the significant parallels we can draw between Aeschylus’ Oresteia and the current state of affairs in Northern Iraq, on the front lines with ISIS. The Swiss director Milo Rau united those elements, both
