NLMagazine art & Culture - The show is almost sold out, so please purchase your tickets in advance. For the first time, TMH presents a full theater production, specially conceived for our stijlkamer. A world premiere stage adaptation of the novella by Willem Frederik Hermans, performed in virtual darkness...
With special thanks to: the AFK (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts), the Amarte Fund, the W.F. Hermans Family, the Hermans Institute, and De Bezige Bij publishing house.
Times:
Fri 28 Oct, at 19:00 (premiere)
Sat 29 Oct, at 19:00 / 21:30 - EXTRA SHOW ADDED DUE TO DEMAND
Sun 30 Oct, at 18:00
Running time: 1 hour (performed in Dutch)
Direction & adaptation: Inge-Vera Lipsius
Cast: Valentijn de Jonge, Guusje te Pas, Jasper van der Pijl, Frans Limburg
'I'm surrounded on all sides. How can I defend myself?'
A man, haunted by the war, brings the war to his home. Paranoia is the very first stage adaptation of W.F. Hermans’s 1948 novella. How can we live with violence? How can we live with each other? This thriller-like adaptation—staged where the original story takes place, in a canal house—links Hermans’s riveting text to our time.
Willem Frederik Hermans is considered to be one of the “Big Three” authors of Dutch post-war literature. His most famous works include The Darkroom of Damocles (1958), Beyond Sleep (1966), and An Untouched House, also included in the short story collection Paranoia (1953). This new play is the directorial debut of Inge-Vera Lipsius and stars a young cast.
