De Warme Winkel

Are you a fan of Dutch-language theatre, and especially of smooth-tongued young actors? For the first time at deSingel, we're proud to present: De Warme Winkel! There are four of them and they come from the Netherlands: Mara van Vlijmen, Jeroen De Man, Vincent Rietveld and Ward Weemhoff. For ten years, they have been part of a collective that has recently been the talk of the town. You were included in the 2012 Theatre Festival, for which they had been selected with their hilarious 'San Francisco'. Having grown up in the post-modern world, they have been influenced by a multiplicity of images, media, information and choices. There is one element that always recurs in their eclectic world: a shared fascination for history, literature and art. On the programme at deSingel is: 'Poëten en Bandieten'. Central to the piece is a Russian poet who died very young: Boris Ryzhy (1974-2001). Ryzhy called his post-perestroika generation "the lost generation, disowned by communism, but not saved by capitalism". In his eyes, organized crime increased with the arrival of capitalism. The grim era of the nineties in which he grew up inspired his penetrating work, which is both aggressive and tender, as hard as the life on the streets. A year before he committed suicide in 2001- at just twenty-six - the poet visited Poetry International Rotterdam. 'Poëten & Bandieten' is based on the 'Rotterdam Diary' that he wrote there. No less a figure than German director René Pollesch guided De Warme Winkel through the creative process. You can expect disorderly, anarchic, socially critical, happy, whirling, non-conformist theatre. De Warme Winkel will be pulling out all the stops for you!