READING ROOM Dutch-language selection
In association with Flanders Literature, Flanders Arts Institute, Performing Arts Fund NL, SABAM and deAuteurs
In the READING ROOM, excerpts from the 20 theatre texts of the international and Dutch-language selection will be presented in staged readings by actors.
The Dutch-language selection will be read in English. Dutch, French and German translations of the excerpts are available as far as possible.
The International selection will be read in Dutch. English, French and German translations of the fragments are available as far as possible.
MEET&GREET
After each READING ROOM of authors from Dutch-speaking selections, we offer the opportunity for (international) professionals to briefly meet the authors, ask questions and exchange contact details.
You can register for such a MEET&GREET in advance or immediately after the lectures in the READING ROOM.
Trojan Wars
Peer Wittenbols
Peer Wittenbols is a Dutch author of plays, poetry, radio plays and more. In ‘Trojan Wars’, an adaptation of Homer’s Iliad, he turns the mother of all wars into a new, raw version in which well-known female characters are given a voice and a story of their own.
Shell Case
Rebekka de Wit & Anoek Nuyens
Anoek Nuyens is a theatre maker and journalist. Rebekka de Wit is an author and theatre maker. In their play ‘Shell Case’, they investigate how Shell, just like any other voice in the climate debate, keeps passing the responsibility for climate change onto another party.