a filmic work for theatre
Postcards from a better place
Worldpremiere 17 November 2022
Tour through NL and international premiere Prisma Festival Panama City 2023
Commisioned and (co)produced by Nite
Cast: Lin van Kaam, Tatiana Spiewak, William English, Tatiana Matveeva, Ada Daniele
Credits: Lunatics and Poets (concept, direction, choreography in collaboration with the dancers)
Merit Vessies (dramaturgy) Rik van den Heuvel (sound) Samon Presland (light) Ascon de Nijs (set) Samir Duratovic (costume) Lea Maria Kahl (atelier)
Tour through NL and international premiere Prisma Festival Panama City 2023
Commisioned and (co)produced by Nite
Cast: Lin van Kaam, Tatiana Spiewak, William English, Tatiana Matveeva, Ada Daniele
Credits: Lunatics and Poets (concept, direction, choreography in collaboration with the dancers)
Merit Vessies (dramaturgy) Rik van den Heuvel (sound) Samon Presland (light) Ascon de Nijs (set) Samir Duratovic (costume) Lea Maria Kahl (atelier)
In Postcards from a better place, Lunatics and Poets illuminate the dark side of human nature. From an infantile game to overt violence, it is the inner darkness that confronts us with irreversible acts, shame, and guilt. This performance is a poetic portrait of the shadow side that, at the same time, makes us human.
The set refers to rooms in which emotionally charged moments occur in a filmic way, and in which the inner and outer worlds begin to overlap. The audience is invited to follow their own storyline within the many scenes that unfold in ‘the house’ and simultaneously take place in the emotive outside world at the very front of the stage. Lightness and darkness can’t exist without each other: darkness does not exist without light, and vice versa. Where do dark thoughts and emotions come from, and under what circumstances do they surface?
The set refers to rooms in which emotionally charged moments occur in a filmic way, and in which the inner and outer worlds begin to overlap. The audience is invited to follow their own storyline within the many scenes that unfold in ‘the house’ and simultaneously take place in the emotive outside world at the very front of the stage. Lightness and darkness can’t exist without each other: darkness does not exist without light, and vice versa. Where do dark thoughts and emotions come from, and under what circumstances do they surface?
Images: Jésula Toussaint Visser
