Dood Paard is a prolific company that in past years has built
up an impressive repertoire. Aischylos, Euripides, Ovidius, Shakespeare, Beckett,
Albee, Handke and Rijnders were all singularly translated, adapted and staged.
Resident playwright Oscar van Woensel and Rob de Graaf wrote new material
specially for the group.
medEia. & 40,000 SUBLIME&BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS.
Performance:
MedEia Space Upstairs, Project Arts Centre Tuesday
7th January, 8:30pm Admission: 17/12
Performance:
40,000 Sublime and Beautiful Thoughts Space Upstairs,
Project Arts Centre Wednesday 8th-Thursday 9th January, 8.30pm Admission:
€ 17/12
DOOD
PAARD THEATRE COMPANY.
Talk/Discussion
Space Upstairs, Project Arts Centre Tuesday 7th January, 3pm Admission: Free
Free Public Theatre Event: Arthouse Friday 10th January, 5pm Workshop Friday
10 January, Arthouse.
AMSTERDAM
A performance by Dood Paard is an event in itself, a unique experience. The
actors toy with their roles, interpreting them very freely, to the extent that
distinctions between different characters sometimes become blurred. At a certain
point, the text may sound autobiographical - improvised on the spot, while later
the actor may present the same character as a stereotype, a puppet speaking
in quotations. These switches are invariably unpredictable and ambiguous. In
essence, Dood Paard is a company that is not afraid to take risks and court
danger, a group of actors who create stimulating and challenging works of theatre
that can captivate an audience.
Dood
Paard's method of working is a collective process, there is no director - actors
collaborate with a technician and sometimes a deejay in trying out stage formulas.
The limits of theatrical possibility are explored and emotional extremes are
studied. Unity of time and place is taken literally so that performances are
often relevant to current events. Universal themes are tackled with a characteristic
lightness and exuberant energy that show humor to be one of the group's most
important weapons, alternated with irony and bitterness.
