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"een scène uit het huwelijk"

Ingmar Bergmans "Scenes from a marriage" from 1973 is a story about a couple who grapples with their relationship as it disintegrates. The prospect of facing their end forces them to confront their history, their partnership, and themselves as they try to disentangle from the fraying identity that they have built together.

More than 50 years later, we are living in a time of many different possibilities when it comes to relationship-concepts. Therapy and knowledge about good communication became a lot more accessible, emotional literacy is higher - especially in younger demographics, and relationships are more and more tailor-made to the specific needs of individuals. This is the time, in which Juri Zanger places Marianne, the main character from "Scenes from a marriage". She looks back into her past in which she still was together with Johan, the other main character from the play. In her mind, she examines in a reenactment the first scene of the play, questioning her relationship back then. She asks herself in what ways she could have had agency to make different choices or communicate better had she known then what she knows now about herself, her dreams, boundaries and needs, and him. And she also has to face where she may have been powerless, living in a much more patriarchal world, confronted by a husband who finds it difficult to share with vulnerability about his perspective, his emotions and his dreams or boundaries. What is she going to discover?

director Juri Zanger

dramaturgy and ass. director Merel Snoeks

directional advice Lynn Schutter
actors & actresses Jonnah Lee Goldberg, Emilio Pramatarov,

Josephine Arendsen, Rover Wouters

presentations february 27th, 2025, 02:00pm at Toneelacademie Maastricht

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"my childhood is a city on fire"

This performance is about a psychological mechanism in children who had to take on more responsibility than they could carry in their childhood: They often get the feeling that they are guilty, that they couldn’t help their parents or themselves well enough, when in reality they may just have been powerless. To them, it seems to be easier to accept their guilt, because then at least they had some kind of control over the situation.

co-creator Juri Zanger, Anne Chris van Doesburg

director, concept, light, stage Juri Zanger

music, costume Anne Chris van Doesburg

directional advice Lotte Milder, Karlijn Milder
performers Anne Chris van Doesburg, Valerie Ludwig

operasingers Dimitris Christoforou, Nora Tarraf

helping hands Jodie Cranen, Zippora Peters, Bik

presentations december 13th 2024, at Toneelacademie Maastricht

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"mars en de beer"

/ how to break free from the legacy and internalization of male violence?

/ what could a future without patriarchy look like? what might it smell like, feel like, sound like?

/ what does your dream image of the masculinities of the future look like?

stage and costume design Thijs Haesen, Luna Musch

technology and light design Tyrell Bergwijn, Leander Helmich, Herik Karsten, Mitchel Terlouw
production Roos Harinarain

dramaturgy advice and fotos Petra van Dijk

directional advice Mara van Vlijmen

writing advice Jibbe Willems
design advice Ibbe de Bruin

performers and music Zon Donze, Daan Hogervorst, Duco Ouwendijk, Bryce van Eijk, Roos van Norden

presentations june 19th 2024, 11:00am and 08:30pm, at MBO Theaterschool Rotterdam

june 20th 2024, 02:00pm and 06:40pm, at MBO Theaterschool Rotterdam
june 26th 2024, 01:10pm, at Toneelacademie Maastricht

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"buch der taten" (poster from the class presentation)

/ if we could look back from the future to the present, what are the actions we could have taken to prevent our world from becoming a dystopia?

/ can we write a book that can be read in the past?

/ is the feeling of powerlessness a sign of our times? and where does it come from?

visual art/stage/costume Anna Lauryssen, Valerie Ludwig

dramaturgy Jona Castelein

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speaking choir Kyra Kay van de Watering, Armin Dorrani, Josephine Arendsen, Simon Kleinhesselink

ta Clara van Bragt

presentations april 16th 2024, 01:30pm and 06:00pm, at Toneelacademie Maastricht

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"unterschlupf"

/ by examining the grounds of a place, where there has been a wall, can i become this wall? can i melt into it‘s old frame? how would it feel to be this wall, carrying everything above?

/ can i empower a space by asking myself: where would this space want me to stay? here, in it‘s corner? or there, on the side?

/ what lies hidden in these little cracks on the wooden floor? can i reach deep enough through them to find the building’s history?

stage/costume design Bonnie Verhoeven

choreography Bi Hongshan

performer Helena Linnert-Fuller

presentations february 2nd and 3rd 2024, 07:00pm, at Neuer Markt 1, 1010 Wien

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"de presidentes in de kelder" (with texts from "de presidentes", Werner Schwab)

/ how do some people fear 'the cellar', while it is a room of freedom and self expression to others?

/ does the place of living determine where people hide their secrets?

/ do right-wing extremist opinions only appeal to right-wing extremist people? or does everyone, my best friends, my grandma, even I myself need to examine and reflect my own potential of holding right-wing extremist opinions?

stage/costume design Jill Gielkens

actresses Ezri den Outer, Floor Burdack

presentations december 12th 2023, 02:00pm, at Toneelacademie Maastricht

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