Beneatha’s Place is a play about visions of the future, ambition, and the loss of one’s great love. About having to find one’s place in a divided world, and about the history you carry within yourself.
Premiere: 3 May 2018
Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam
Netherlands main house tour
May-June 2018
press
“Like a whirlwind, powerful and vibrant.”
* * * * NRC Handelsblad
“Teunkie van der Sluijs’ direction is almost filmic […] It allows you to be absorbed by the story, yet keeps you at a comfortable distance. But when bright lights sweep across the auditorium and right into our eyes at the end, we are blinded by the mirror that is held up to our faces.”
* * * * Theaterkrant
“Thanks to the cast and director Teunkie van der Sluijs, this remarkable play stays enjoyable for its full two-and-a-half hours. Its scenes are fast, and there is plenty of humour.”
De Volkskrant
“The audience remains deeply involved. Stereotypes in playtext, in direction (Teunkie van der Sluijs) and in the acting are given an evidently theatrical function, especially when unabashed white superiority is triumphantly rebuked.”
Trouw
“Often hilarious scenes and frequently effervescent acting style.”
* * * * NRC Next
by
Kwame Kwei-Armah
translation
Esther Duysker
stage design
Sjoerd Kortekaas
lighting design
Floriaan Ganzevoort
sound design
Ata Güner
costume design
Sjoerd Kortekaas
dramaturgy
Karim Ameur
Jetty Mathurin
Mandela Wee Wee
Joy Wielkens
Yorick Zwart
Boris van der Ham
Fockeline Ouwerkerk