het TheaterFestival

Who’s Afraid of Oscar Wilde

Compagnie Red Yellow & Blue

dates

Fri 13.09, 20:30

tickets

Sat 14.09, 14:00

tickets

Basic tarif: €20 / +65: €18 / -26: €16
Kansentarief: €4

location

DE SINGEL / Theaterstudio

duration

75 min.

language

Dutch

Info

Vera and Sinem’s desire to become parents quickly evaporates when they discover that both want to carry the child to see ‘their own genes reflected’. At the couple’s regular Friday afternoon drinks with  Vera’s brother Bram and his boyfriend Manu, the siblings pitch a solution for this unfulfilled desire to have children. An out-of-the-box plan, of which they have no idea how it will be received by their  partners. 

With this “comedy of the year” (NRC), Compagnie Red Yellow & Blue offers a respectful nod to Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – the renowned relationship drama by Edward Albee – and turns it into a  dark kitchen table comedy. It focuses on queer thirty-somethings and the relationship issues of  today. Daan van Bendegem penned it down in sharp dialogues and paints a portrait of a generation  in which queer Millennials struggle with disheartening challenges, but are also hilariously relatable.

 

reviews

“Tekst en spel zijn beide vlijmscherp in deze verrukkelijke relatiekomedie.”

—NRC

“Geweldig eigentijdse queer-variant op beroemd relatiedrama.”

—Theaterkrant

credits

Concept, directing and text: Daan van Bendegem
Cast: Daan van Bendegem, Sharlee Jo Daantje, Eline van Gils, and Tobe Vandekerckhove.
Final direction: Ellen Goemans
Production: Anna Huizing
PR: Dagmar Bokma
Business management: n’ More / Ellen van Bunnik