De Dunne Komrij

'You'll find them all here: the romantics, the romantic rebels, the clergymen, the drawing-room poets, the symbolists, the decadents, the experimenters, the disillusioned, and amongst them all, again and again, the eccentrics, the students, the Flemings and those who broke early.' Gerrit Komrij The 'Dunne Komrij' was sparked off by Villanella's fancy for putting together a theatre programme, a lively and direct staging of the language and poetry of the nineteenth century. A programme with an appealing poetic line and a small, select group of performers, each of whom has their own way of handling the written word: in music or acting, faltering, authentic. 'De Dunne Komrij' is not a definitive selection from two centuries of Dutch-language poetry; it is a declaration of love by two crazy anthologists who think there are still people interested in looking beyond the madness (literary and otherwise) of the present. The same goes on stage: full of praise and love for mischievous language and literature, five poets drag you back a couple of centuries. Want a bet that little has changed? 'The truth is that more than five hundred teenagers and twenty-somethings listened breathlessly to poetry by Gerrit Komrij ... The performance of Komrij's anthology was an entertaining, sometimes even dazzling poetic show.' De Morgen On showing their tickets, members of the audience will receive a free copy of 'De Dunne Komrij' after the show.