“Venlo is a daring piece; a daring attempt to make topical, inspired and relevant theater. And Wunderbaum succeeds brilliantly.”
NRC Handelsblad
“Wunderbaum has managed to create a rock-solid and fierce piece in a short time. A story with a message.”
De Limburger
This new production is created in Venlo, famous for its carnival, asparagus, drug tourists and only recently also as Geert Wilders’ home town. The group of actors is working together with local politicians, music groups and actors.
This performance will go on tour to several cities in the Netherlands and Dutch-speaking Belgium as a site-specific performance, but the series of performances in Venlo form the basis of the project. Here in this borderland between the Netherlands and Germany, Wunderbaum finds the atmosphere that we use as a theme in Venlo. Due to the cooperation with the various associations and the inhabitants of the town, a friction between reality and theatre is created
The inhabitants of a provincial town are going through a ‘liveability crisis’. The population has to contend with an identity problem: who are we and where are we heading? They find themselves in a divide between regionalism and cosmopolitanism.
In Venlo, the Wunderbaum actors play ‘minor leaders’: people who have to convert major ideas into every day practice. A police officer with two healthy daughters, an enthusiastic politician, a secondary school teacher and an ambitious entrepreneur.
The audience is witness to the unveiling of a work of art, a speech and a beer and sausage party. In a projected documentary film we get to know the inhabitants of the region.
By and with
- Walter Bart
- Matijs Jansen
- Maarten van Otterdijk
- Maartje Remmers
- Marleen Scholten
Film
- Tijmen Hauer
Costume
- Judith Van Herck
Music
- Simon Lenski
Dramaturgy and text editing
- Joachim Robbrecht
Production manager
- Carry Hendriks
- Eva van den Hove
- Marije Ruijter
Technician
- Sander Loonen
- Peter Swikker
- Ruud de Zwart
- Pieter Nys
coproduction
- Theater de Maaspoort
- Rotterdamse Schouwburg
- NTGent
Photography
- Fred Debrock (scenes)
Made possible by
- Gemeente Venlo
- Lindeboom
- LP II
- Gheestige Willem
Film
- Ben Bahloul
- Mimoun Bahloul
- Ton Brands
- Burgemeester H.M.F. Bruls
- John Ebus
- Wil Gerards
- Jose van Haren
- John Heuvelings
- Walter Jakob
- Jen Nagels
- Nol
- Wim Ramakers
- Meneer Steenhof
- Leon Thomassen
- Gerrit Vervoordt en klas 3BB van College den Hulster
- Wethouder van Participatie, Cultuur en Milieu De heer ing. R. Grashoff
Amateur actor
- Eeke Boonstra
- Marloes Bruinsma
- Pepijn Korfage,
- Richard Kors
- Annette Kreijkamp
- Myora Kuipers
- Lotte Milder
- Esther Valstar
- Riet de Veer
Special thanks to
- Guy van den Berg
- Eefke den Dekker
- Borre Dierickx
- Bernard Ellenbroek
- Nina Gouw
- Chris de Haan
- Johan Hauser
- Bas Heijne
- Maria Heiden
- Jeugdtheater Hofplein
- Saartje Hoogland
- Frans van der Hoogt
- Paul Kortman
- Keurslagerij de Karbinder
- Rose Marie van de Laar
- Gijsbrecht Moeyersons
- Anette van der Mooren
- Pieter Nys
- Nathalie Peters
- Hein van Raak
- Marije Ruiter
- Geert van Soest
- Peter Swikker
- Koen Tachelet
- Louk Voncken
- Ilhan Zengin
- Henk Zoeteman
- medewerkers van Theater de Maaspoort
- medewerkers van Theatertje 17/19
- Carnavalsvereniging Jocus
- Golfclub de Peelse Golf
- familie Roox
- familie Korfage
- projectbureau Q4
- alle anderen die een bijdrage leverden aan Venlo
Past dates
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May 2010
29
Theater De Veste
Delft (NL) -
May 2010
28
Theater De Veste
Delft (NL) -
May 2010
27
Theater De Veste
Delft (NL) -
May 2010
02
Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
Utrecht (NL) -
May 2010
01
Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
Utrecht (NL) -
April 2010
29
Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
Utrecht (NL) -
April 2010
28
Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
Utrecht (NL) -
April 2010
25
Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
Utrecht (NL) -
April 2010
24
Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
Utrecht (NL) -
April 2010
23
Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
Utrecht (NL) -
April 2010
22
Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
Utrecht (NL) -
November 2009
21
NTGent
Gent (BE) -
November 2009
20
NTGent
Gent (BE) -
November 2009
19
NTGent
Gent (BE) -
November 2009
18
NTGent
Gent (BE) -
November 2009
17
NTGent
Gent (BE) -
November 2009
15
NTGent
Gent (BE) -
November 2009
14
NTGent
Gent (BE) -
November 2009
13
NTGent
Gent (BE) -
November 2009
12
NTGent
Gent (BE) -
November 2009
07
Frascati
Amsterdam (NL) -
November 2009
06
Frascati
Amsterdam (NL) -
November 2009
05
Frascati
Amsterdam (NL) -
November 2009
04
Frascati
Amsterdam (NL) -
November 2009
01
Frascati
Amsterdam (NL) -
October 2009
31
Frascati
Amsterdam (NL) -
October 2009
30
Frascati
Amsterdam (NL) -
October 2009
18
Rotterdamse Schouwburg
Rotterdam (NL) -
October 2009
17
Rotterdamse Schouwburg
Rotterdam (NL) -
October 2009
16
Rotterdamse Schouwburg
Rotterdam (NL) -
October 2009
15
Rotterdamse Schouwburg
Rotterdam (NL) -
October 2009
14
Rotterdamse Schouwburg
Rotterdam (NL) -
October 2009
11
Rotterdamse Schouwburg
Rotterdam (NL) -
October 2009
10
Rotterdamse Schouwburg
Rotterdam (NL) -
October 2009
09
Rotterdamse Schouwburg
Rotterdam (NL) -
October 2009
08
Rotterdamse Schouwburg
Rotterdam (NL) -
October 2009
07
Rotterdamse Schouwburg
Rotterdam (NL) -
June 2009
27
Speelpleq
Venlo (NL) -
June 2009
26
Speelpleq
Venlo (NL) -
June 2009
25
Speelpleq
Venlo (NL) -
June 2009
20
Speelpleq
Venlo (NL) -
June 2009
19
Speelpleq
Venlo (NL) -
June 2009
18
Speelpleq
Venlo (NL) -
June 2009
17
Speelpleq
Venlo (NL) -
June 2009
16
Speelpleq
Venlo (NL)
Amateur actors Amsterdam
Sophie Boven, Isabel Brouwer, Martien Huls, Pepijn Korfage, Lotte Milder, Liselotte van Oeffelt, Shirley van de Polder, Hedwig Smoorenburg, Jacqueline Steketee, Riet de Veer, Cynthia Wassink, Wijnand Wortelboer
“… Marleen Scholten as the alderman builds her role very cleverly, without any caricature. Her attempts to “rescue” the citizen from his mediocrity, though doomed to failure, are at least believable.”
De Volkskrant
“Beautiful, touching, heartbreaking it is, that beneath the uncompromising criticism there is always the Iove for the subject - the common man? The human being? The Dutchman? - remains palpable. The group judges harshly, but remains with integrity.”
NRC Handelsblad
Amateur actors Gent
Elisa Baeyens, Lien De Koning, Sophie De Mol, Ilse De Rauw,Pepijn Korfage, Marleen Morbée, Corrie Parlevliet, Isabel Vandersteene, Marnix Van Hamme, Joke Van Huffel, Laurence Vincent
Amateur actors Rotterdam
Eeke Boonstra, Marloes Bruinsma, Pepijn Korfage, Richard Kors, Annette Kreijkamp, Myora Kuipers, Lotte Milder , Esther Valstar, Riet de Veer
Current projects
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The Dogshit Attack -
ALFA -
The queuer