“It is horrifying, mean, hilarious, enervating, dangerous. But also funny and at times breathtakingly beautiful. (…) Music theatre for Wagner lovers and Wagner haters!”
Max Arian (De Groene Amsterdammer)
“In The haunted house of history (…) theatrical fantasy is rampant.”
Hein Janssen (De Volkskrant)
“In The haunted house of history, “the satire is ambiguous, the irony is apt, and cellists and singers offer beautiful Wagner opera fragments.”
Floris Don (NRC Handelsblad)
A Wagnerian theatre opera about the horrors of modern history.
In The haunted house of history, Wunderbaum wages war against the excesses of the frivolity culture. What the world needs now is decisiveness, is action, is taking steps: ‘Escape from Escapism’. Zombies, populists, stained birds and Steve Jobs are portrayed one after another in this horrifying beseeching appeal to no less than the entire human kind.
By and with
- Walter Bart
- Matijs Jansen
- Maartje Remmers
- Marleen Scholten
- Esther Gouarné
Live music and composition
- Simon Lenski
- Bo Wiget
Vocals
- Marc Pantus
- Lies Vandewege
Text
- Gerardjan Rijnders
Set design
- Marloes van der Hoek
- Wikke van Houwelingen
- Maarten van Otterdijk (facade)
Production coordinator
- Carry Hendriks
Technician
- Frank Hulsebosch (facade)
Costume design
- Lotte Goos
Dramaturgy
- Elly Scheele
light
- Siemen van der Werf
Sound
- Rick Gobée
Photography
- Frank Bongers
- Sofie Knijff (scenes)
Production manager
- Wunderbaum
coproduction
- Operadagen Rotterdam
- Hebbel am Ufer (HAU)
- Rotterdamse Schouwburg
- NTGent
Made possible by
- SNS REAAL Fonds
- Lirafonds
- Peak Audio B.V.
- Relight Productions B.V.
Special thanks to
- Bas Heijne
- Christopher Hutchinson
- Daan Westendorp
- Dick Molenaar
- Dirk Eijsbouts
- DOK
- Hein van Raak
- Henk Zoeteman
- Ivo Gort
- Kas van Huistede
- Koen Tachelet
- Maria Heiden
- Melih Gencboyaci
- OT Theater
- Philip Leussink
- Productiehuis Rotterdam
- René Bakker
- Ro Theater
- Rotterdamse Schouwburg
- Theo Hensen
- Theun Mosk
- Wine Dierickx
Past dates
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December 2013
12
NTGent
Gent (BE) -
December 2013
11
NTGent
Gent (BE) -
December 2013
06
NTGent
Gent (BE) -
December 2013
05
NTGent
Gent (BE) -
December 2013
04
NTGent
Gent (BE) -
December 2013
03
NTGent
Gent (BE) -
November 2013
01
Theater aan het Spui
Den Haag (NL) -
October 2013
31
Theater aan het Spui
Den Haag (NL) -
November 2012
30
Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam
Amsterdam (NL) -
November 2012
29
Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam
Amsterdam (NL) -
November 2012
17
Hebbel am Ufer
Berlijn (DE) -
November 2012
16
Hebbel am Ufer
Berlijn (DE) -
November 2012
15
Hebbel am Ufer
Berlijn (DE) -
August 2012
06
Theaterfestival Boulevard
Den Bosch (NL) -
August 2012
05
Theaterfestival Boulevard
Den Bosch (NL) -
August 2012
04
Theaterfestival Boulevard
Den Bosch (NL) -
August 2012
03
Theaterfestival Boulevard
Den Bosch (NL) -
August 2012
02
Theaterfestival Boulevard
Den Bosch (NL) -
June 2012
03
Operadagen Rotterdam
Schouwburgplein Rotterdam (NL) -
June 2012
02
Operadagen Rotterdam
Schouwburgplein Rotterdam (NL) -
June 2012
01
Operadagen Rotterdam
Schouwburgplein Rotterdam (NL) -
May 2012
30
Operadagen Rotterdam
Schouwburgplein Rotterdam (NL) -
May 2012
29
Operadagen Rotterdam
Schouwburgplein Rotterdam (NL) -
May 2012
28
Operadagen Rotterdam
Schouwburgplein Rotterdam (NL) -
May 2012
27
Operadagen Rotterdam
Schouwburgplein Rotterdam (NL) -
May 2012
26
Operadagen Rotterdam
Schouwburgplein Rotterdam (NL) -
May 2012
25
Operadagen Rotterdam
Schouwburgplein Rotterdam (NL)
“Intelligent and provoking, (…) one big bundle of riveting, grotesque and megalomaniac theatre.”
Sara van der Kooi (Theaterkrant)
“Every period of time gets the artists it deserves, and ours seem to have been banished to a spurn haunted house construction. Obligatory material for our impotent policymakers.”
Hans van Dam (Grazen)
“an abundant and rich spectacle.”
Karlijn Broekhuizen (8Weekly)
Current projects
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The Dogshit Attack -
ALFA -
The queuer