The monumental story of how our earth is constantly moving
ER RENT EEN BERG VOORBIJ / 8+
Language No Problem
By:
Plankton
Age:
8+
Rotterdam
Plankton adapts the 4.54 million year history of the earth into a brand new, visual, language-free performance for everyone aged 8 and over. Let yourself be carried away by an immense landscape painting that comes to life and makes you think on a different time scale. From the birth of the moon, past the first algae to come ashore, to the extinction of humans and even further...
This is the monumental story of how our earth is constantly changing, told through a huge backdrop of cardboard rivers, clouds and trees. In Er rent een berg voorbij, forests crawl across the stage, mountains crumble into beaches and the moon dances a waltz with the sea, while a four-part choir produces the sound of cracking rocks and chirping birds. Let yourself be carried away by an immense landscape painting that has come to life and makes you think on a different time scale. From the birth of the moon, past the first algae to come ashore, to the extinction of humans and even further...
About the makers
Plankton is the collective of Sonja van Ojen and Hendrik Kegels. With their shared fascination for the magic of the everyday, they create performances that lie on the border between object theatre, visual art and mime. Where fantasy writers create worlds with elves and trolls, Plankton mythologizes electrical sockets, pebbles and fire extinguishers. In a committed manner, but always with a gentle hand, Plankton gives a platform to the non-human, the things that normally do not get a chance to speak. They create worlds in which things no longer exist as a function of humans. In which man is no longer the center, not above everything else, but in between, on an equal footing.
Credits
Plankton (Sonja van Ojen, Hendrik Kegels)
Wieke van Rosmalen, Linde Schinkel, Sonja van Ojen, Hendrik Kegels
Harpo ‘t Hart
Menzo Kircz
Joeri Heegstra
Menno Boerdam
Heintz en Kop
Pol Eggermont, Leonie Clement
Pascal Kijzer
Een productie is van Festival Cement & Feikes Huis in coproductie met STIP en PLAN Talentontwikkeling Brabant
Mogelijk gemaakt door: Fonds Podiumkunsten, het Cultuurfonds en BNG Cultuurfonds
Yesterday, at the opening of Cement Festival, I saw the most beautiful theatre performance of the year so far: Er Rent Een Berg Voorbij by visual theatre collective Plankton.
...one of the most thrilling post-anthropocentric performances I've ever seen, succeeding in making 4,54 billion years of history feel both awe-inspiringly momentous and touchingly intimate.
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