T H E D U T C H O N T O U R - Theater Instituut Nederland

Language
On request
Contact
Artistic director: Flora Verbrugge
T +31 (0)53 – 431 54 00
E trapman@sonnevanck.nl
I www.sonnevanck.nl
Jeugdtheater
A plea for staying
Sonnevanck
soft inside
Sonnevanck produces expressive and physical music theatre for young audiences between
4 and 12 years old. The style of acting is designed to generate empathy for the emotional line
of all the characters, by means of script, music, effect (costumes) and movement. The music
is performed live by musicians and singers, who also play a role in the dramatic proceedings.
Themes such as ‘individualization’, or ‘fear in a culture that has over-estimated itself’ are put into
a context that is recognizable to children via traditional fairytales or new, magical metaphors.
Flora Verbrugge, artistic director of the company: ‘I produce theatre that makes a plea for staying
soft inside. A plea to resist the hardening process, despite the pressure from the outside world’.
International
Sonnevanck’s attachment to good, sensitive language means that the company does not often
perform abroad, apart from at festivals. They mainly focus on co-productions or reproductions
of performances. The company looks for partners in Europe, as well as in Asia. Sonnevanck
shows are often reproduced in Germany. The productions Oroek, of: zout in je snuit/Oroek, or:
salt in your muzzle, Schaap/Sheep, Kommer en Courage/Sorrow and Courage and Roodkapje/Little
Red Riding Hood are suitable for translation and performance at foreign festivals. There are
also smaller-scale productions for the classroom or small theatres, such as Ontsnapping uit het
sprookje/Escape from the fairytale in German, Assepoes/Cinderella in English and Het lelijke kleine
eendje/The Ugly Duckling in French. In the ’08-’09 season, Sonnevanck will be presenting a largescale
Dutch-German co-production of Sneeuwwitje/Snow White with two casts.
Roodkapje/Little Red Riding Hood
Photo: Marc-Jan Trapman
The Dutch on tour Youth theatre
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