Music theatre full of visual poetry and dance
A co-production with Het Houten Huis and Club Guy and Roni’s Poetic Disasters Club.
“Anyone can end up here,” my father says. He’s filling out an endless stack of forms, and I have to stay quiet. It’s been at least 110 hours. There’s a high counter, with two blue latex hands behind it. They tell us what to do, but I don’t understand.
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People come and go. A girl with an IV dances so lightly, I think she might fly. The boy who was just sitting next to me has no arms or legs, but he can do everything. There’s a woman with such a heavy, oversized head that she almost tips over.
You can get lost here too. An old man wanders through the hallway. You can laugh with him; he’s forgotten he’s been coming here for years. In his eyes, summer clouds drift.
And me, I’m just different. “That’s a good thing,” my father says. “There’s already so much that’s the same.”
The musical performance If Things Turn Out Differently is about a waiting room where no one wants to be. Where the walls shift, people stumble, and yet they remain strong.
Creators and performers
Direction and script > Elien van den Hoek
Choreography > Adam Peterson, Elien van den Hoek, Andreas Denk
Music and composition > Radek Fedyk
Lighting design > Desirée van Gelderen
Costumes and masks > Freja Roelofs i.s.m. André Kok
Dance and performance > Jesse Debille, Andreas Denk, Marloes Dingshoff, Meghan Dobbelsteijn Bisschops, David Feenstra, Laura Moura Costa, Johannes de Jong, Agri Issa, Thomas Schellens
Vocals and performance > Sanam Tahmasebi
Assistant director > Anne van Dorp, Zoscha van Erkel
Lighting technician > Paul Reitsma
Sound technician > Tomas van Schelven
Robotics > Loeki Wiefferink
Backstage > Marelien Geus, Wytze Veenstra
Set and production design > Douwe Hibma, Marlies Schot
Technical support > Roy Vermeer
Dramaturgy > Loes van der Pligt, David van Griethuysen
Photography > Moon Saris