| Maker | Bambie |
| Duration | 75 min |
| Part of | NOW NOW NOW |
Three weeks, one performance, two versions
How closely can theater follow current events? In just three weeks, theater company Bambie and Korzo created two versions of the same performance: one IN the present and one ABOUT it. We haven’t seen urgency like this in a long time.
The good news show / the bad news show
For 25 years, Bambie has been reinventing physical theater with every performance. Through a chain of absurdist acts, Bambie Speelt Iets Nieuws offers a glimpse into the state of the world in May 2027. Because today, it feels like bad news outweighs good news. But is this just a matter of perspective?
Choose the order in which you experience reality
For this performance, you decide whether we explore the good news first and then the bad news, or the other way around. The choice is yours!
Button 1: [first bad] Button 2: [first good]
What you might expect (or not)
Since even we, while writing this text, have no idea how much further we’ve been speeding toward the abyss – or how many miles we’ve managed to climb back out of the valley – here are some of the acts you might see: the sick journalist; the newspaper with no will to live; a newly discovered species; everything you need to know about nature if you want to be happy; and wasn’t the world on fire 20 years ago?
Come see for yourself!
For more than twenty-five years, Mimetheatergroep Bambie has been creating witty and compelling physical theater, where the body becomes a mirror of the human soul. Absurdist, dreamy yet wild, and full of strange scenes, (slapstick) fights, and exaggerated, deeply recognizable emotions. They are a force in Dutch theater.
Jochem Stavenuiter
Jochem is one of the founders of Mimetheatergroep Bambie and spent several years as a maker/performer with the Noord Nederlands Toneel. He has also performed with several other companies, including Orkater, Alex d’Electrique, and Ro Theater. As a director at OOrkaan, he created works such as De Suleika’s en het mysterie van de gevoelige snaar, Het strijkkwartet van meneer Sax, Sticks, and Cellokrijgers. Long ago, Jochem and Paul made Mannetjes in bad, a series of short films for Sesame Street.
Paul van der Laan
Paul helped found Mimetheatergroep Bambie and has also worked with TgEcho (De Poolse Bruid), Maas theater en dans (Stilte), and Alex d’Electrique (Bezet Gebied), among others. He also appears in the film adaptation of Lampje, based on the book by Annet Schaap.
NOWNOWNOW presents two weeks of work by makers who don’t just follow the news, they work within it. Raw, urgent, and unfiltered!
Performance dates
May 2027
May 2027
May 2027
May 2027
May 2027
May 2027
Korzo Zaal