The show of Toon Hermans anno 1984
The show of Toon Hermans anno 1984
1984-01-01
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The bigger the audiences for Dutch comedian Micha Wertheim’s shows became, the less he had to do to make them laugh. In one early show, he suggested that the audience would be better off without him. So in 2016, he acted upon this suggestion with an experiment that made theater history: he wasn't physically present onstage but somewhere else. The audience wasn't aware of this in advance, though they did get a hint in the form of a pre-recorded "live" radio interview from a remote studio. "I see my audience as my children," Wertheim says in this interview. "You have to educate them, and that’s what I’ve been doing for the past 15 years. At first you have to constantly be there watching them, but there comes a time when you have to trust them to get on with it without you." With some help from a robot, a printer, a stereo and a set of headphones, the members of his audience were able to make their own performance.
Stage registration of the first comedy special by the Dutch comedian Micha Wertheim. The central idea of the performance is: 'Some people think I'm arrogant, but I spit on them."
In his first show, Henry was only concerned with entertaining his audience and no more than that. In Electropis he talks about essential things: about his generation Y, materialism, fear, love and nice women. Is this performance intense? Yes. Funny? That's for sure. And is it really about the aforementioned themes? Probably not.
This comedy/theatre show is the sequel to 'Micha Wertheim: Somewhere Else'. This second show starts exactly where the first show ended: in the same theatrical scenery, with the same robot. But this time Wertheim surprises his audience by showing up. He tells about how the first experimental comedy show was received and contemplates about the magic of theatre and art in a society about the right to exist of art in a society that allows less and less doubt and confusion. When Robot falls into a depression, the boundaries between theater and reality begin to blur.
Award-winning artist Wim Helsen proves in his fifth theater performance that he not only has deep, absurd thoughts, but is also a good listener.
Registration of the fourth theatre program by the Dutch comedy duo (Niels) Van der Laan & (Jeroen) Woe.
Registration the theatre program of the same name by the Dutch comedian Lenette van Dongen. In this program Van Dongen questions the collective compulsion to happiness. Because of all that happy tweeting and jolly Facebooking, life seems like one big party, but Van Dongen doesn't believe it. She is more interested in advanced happiness and pierces right through the facade of this 'happy urge'.
Registration of the seventh theatre program by the Dutch comedian Claudia de Breij.