SPRING in the press

Reviews

Review opening weekend de Volkskrant: ‘Stunning performances at festival SPRING confront the viewer with our exhausted state of being.’

💎 Critic’s Choice Theaterkrant on Kill Me: “Perhaps Otero gives the impression of being improvisational and intuitive, but the result is a razor-sharp performance that propels you from start to finish in a tightly knit argument, where each part adds an element to what is a crushing overall experience. Theatre is lies, but in the process, nothing is left to chance. And in the end, judging by the final scene, we are all being led on by Cupid.” – Javier López Piñón

💎 Critics’ Choice Theaterkrant on While Taking Shape: ‘Gónzalez has found a form to allow our feelings even during the sight of acts of violence, incidentally without moralising it.’ – Fransien van der Putt

💎Critic’s choice in Theaterkrant about fatigue: “Szeri switches between a number of poses while moving, like the light changes between a number of simple positions. Unlike what people are used to doing in clubs, his pace is slow, not really slow, not slow-motion, but just extraordinarily calm and focused.” – Fransien van der Putt

Review De Standaard on Three Times Left is Right: ‘Political theatre that is both a horror comedy and a marriage portrait? With Three times left is right, Julian Hetzel lives up to his name of provocateur. Actor couple Josse De Pauw and Kristien De Proost are on stage together and that creates fireworks.’ ★★★★★

Recensie in de Volkskrant about Three Times Left is Right: “‘Three Times Left Is Right’ holds up a mirror to the viewer: to what extent do we push dissenters away?” ★★★★☆

Review de Volkskrant: “Kill Me is at times hilarious, at times sentimental, at times stylised, at times self-conscious, at times painful, but consistently gripping. It is an intimate glimpse into the souls of a pair of psychologically unstable people.” ★★★★★

Review in the Volkskrant on Dubbelspoor: ‘Dancers Beppie Blankert and Caroline Dokter, like their performance, have grown brilliantly with the times’ ★★★★☆

Review in Theaterkrant on Call me Jay: ‘Dance with moving LED lamp culminates in fierce scene.’ – Fritz de Jong

Review in Theaterkrant on UIRAPURU:‘Marcelo Evelin transforms the experience of time with hypnotic theatre far beyond metropolitan frenzy.’

Review NRC: In “Wasted Land”, Ntando Cele strikes a clever balance between bitterness and humour, confrontation and compassion ★★★★☆

Review Theaterkrant about Motus Mori: PERPETUUM: “The people whose personal gestures choreographer Katja Heitmann has been collecting for several years are increasingly given a face. They come close, on a screen admittedly, which feels like a warm and intimate encounter. Wherever you stand, they look at you invitingly. Sometimes that is uncomfortable, but above all it is an experience that comes in.”

Interviews

Interview in de Volkskrant About Wasted Land: Ntando Cele exposes the schizophrenia between ‘Western feel-goodecology and the reality of the toxic fashion industry

Interview with Julian Hetzel about Three Times Left is Right by Trouw
Trouw asked him why everyone should see his play Three Times Left is Right: “Because it is super topical. It’s about political disagreements at home (…) If you consider yourself to be on the left, but your wife is on the right, that’s an interesting dynamic. It forces you to rethink your own beliefs.” More about Three Times Left is Right.

Interview with Julian Hetzel about Three Times Left is Right by het Parool
How does a marriage work when you are politically diametrically opposed, theatre-maker Julian Hetzel wonders: ‘She eats him skin and hair’. More about Three Times Left is Right.

Interview with Marthe van Mosselveld about Overal Iemand Altijd by RTV Utrecht
“I experience the world as a lot. My emotions are often very much bigger, everything comes in harder. That means with sadness, if something goes wrong or if I’m angry, I feel that harder. That’s not nice. But beautiful things, love and joy I also feel bigger and that’s insane to feel.” More about Overal Iemand Altijd.

Interview with Ivo Dimchev about METCH by het NRC
“I believe that art is a conversation, and then I want my interlocutor to be equally active. The distance I have from the audience varies from performance to performance.” More about METCH.

Interview with Beppie Blankert about Dubbelspoor on Theaterkrant
‘The movement material is very different and the dynamics with Caroline have changed completely. We ourselves have also changed,’ Beppie Blankert says cheerfully when I speak to her at the end of May, more than a month before the premiere of Dubbelspoor at Spring festival in Utrecht. The play is almost finished. ‘Now the main thing is to rehearse, rehearse endlessly.’More about Dubbelspoor.