Waarom het kind in de polenta kookt - Jonge Harten
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Waarom het kind in de polenta kookt

De Noorderlingen

Boris Stokman

  • Admission

    <29 years €13,-
    >29 years €19,-

  • Duration

    60 minutes

  • Language

    Dutch spoken

  • Location

    Festivalhart

  • Age

    12+

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    PERFORMANCE

A coming-of-age story

‘The circus is always abroad. But in the caravan, we are at home. I open the door of the caravan as little as possible to make sure our home doesn’t evaporate.’ – writer Aglaja Veteranyi

Waarom het kin de polenta kookt is a tender yet heart-wrenching story about her own childhood, growing up in a circus family that fled the dictatorship in Romania in the late 1960s. It is a coming-of-age story about a young refugee seeking stability in a travelling circus that is always on the move. The travelling life proves to be hard. Hope is tested again and again as major disappointments pile up.

Without knowing the difference between reality and fantasy, with a stoic gaze and the urge to understand it all, the cast faces the world in a stew of enchantment, disturbing and sometimes hilarious scenes. ‘Is there really a circus in heaven?’

About the creators
De Noorderlingen – a home for talented individuals aged between 12 and 25 who feel the need to master the theatre and film professions – consists of the Theatre Preparatory Course, the Filmschool and the Werkplaats. The Theatre Preparatory Course is a multi-year teaching and training programme that works towards the Production Group, in which talented individuals work as a professional theatre collective for a year.

Credits
Actors | Mathilde Hoenders | Else van Meegen | Lis Wolfkamp | Jurre ter Horst | Frank Dijkstra | Lise
Naus | Julia Spannagel | Nova Weijkamp | Oussey Diallo
Director | Lies van de Wiel
Costumes | Freja Roelofs
Technology & design | Herman van Keulen
With thanks to | Circus Santelli | Team De Noorderlingen

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JONGE HARTEN VIEWING GUIDE

Jonge Harten offers a diverse program. But where do you start choosing? To clarify things somewhat, we have three main storylines that we are focusing on this year. You can see these lines throughout our program. So that you can easily choose which line suits you best and what you feel like doing at the moment. What are you going for?

AFTER

DE ARENA

DEEPENING

FIELD

FIELD was created to strengthen the bond with young talent and to give both the artists and the festival the opportunity to support people in the longer term and to make their “dreams” come true. We focus in particular on students who we feel (after conversations and performances) connect themselves as creators with the world beyond. In a conscious, critical and idiosyncratic way.

PERFORMANCE

PREMIERE

ROUTE

STAGE

A program line in which we put creative young people on stage and in which you can participate in great masterclasses yourself. We ensure that you are pampered all day long and of course we close the day with a great party, by none other than Clash!

TALK

TRY OUT

WORK IN PROGRESS

WORKSHOP

Kom je er toch nog niet helemaal uit? Geen nood: stuur een mailtje naar info@jongeharten.nl en vraag om nadere toelichting. Vermeld de titel van de voorstelling en waar je graag meer duidelijkheid over wilt hebben (is dit iets om met mijn vriend/vriendin naartoe te gaan? het is misschien wel grappig maar toch niet vulgair? dat soort vragen). De programmeurs van het festival geven je dan persoonlijk het verlossende antwoord!