This is a very belated entry on the occasion of Blog Action Day. Thank you, Suzy (www.wbii.net), for pushing !
In the 80ies, Copsa Mica in Transylvania was one of the most polluted cities in Europe, due to a local factory that produced negru de fum – soot ! The entire city was black, from the [...]
“While drifting about on the ocean / I started feeling lonely,/ and to do away with this sentiment / I began talking to myself’ . These are the opening lines of New Crusoe, TUSK’s latest theater production, yours to grab and unravel, here in town, in English.
If asked to tell what the play was all [...]
One of the best pieces of fiction I have ever read, possibly eclipsing ‘The Name of the Rose’, ‘Perfume’, some of Tolstoy’s and Chekhov’s best, ‘The Tin Drum’ – enfin, the best book I have read in a loooong time came to me when dear Janet decided to recycle some of her books.
I picked up [...]
It is a few hours now after The Art of Swimming’s opening night in The Hague and I still can’t extricate myself from the strange spell that only pure, 24 carat art can cast upon its spectator.
Set against the uncannily well fitting backdrop of a real dune (aka the belly of the Museum Beelden aan [...]
On Saturday, 22 November, the Pathe Buitenhof spoils us with a further live broadcast from New York, bringing La Damnation de Faust by Hector Berlioz to The Hague. Subtitled ‘a dramatic legend’, Berlioz’ musical creation feeds on the ancestral quest for right, wrong and the transitions thereof, whilst this particular staging makes use of the [...]
Claiming to stage a novelty performance of Mozart’s Requiem in this day and age is either boisterous or daring or foolish or all of the aforementioned, to say the least. And yet, the consummate musicians gathered under the aegis of Musica Poetica, a very young baroque orchestra rapidly gaining the respect of their peers worldwide [...]
Crammed into one sentence, one could say that James Benning is an unknown celebrity in the world of filmmaking – unknown to most, he is a star of his sub-genre, a magical department of cinematography called so unimaginatively ‘experimental film making’. Between 20 –26 November, the Filmhuis in The Hague shows a selection of Benning’s [...]