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Theatre Directing

Motortown

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Writer
Simon Stephens
Venue
Rozentheater Amsterdam
Producers
Studio Dubbelagent
Opening night
November 2010

The Dutch premiere of Simon Stephens’ 2006 play Motortown, in Van Der Sluijs’s own translation.

This studio production about a returning Iraq veteran alienated from the country he fought for combined a transparent acting style with choral sequences of percussion and movement. Architectural lighting sources created a constant, almost imperceptible, movement in colour and direction of light in an otherwise empty space.

Esmee Dirks, Niels Croiset and Krisjan Schellingerhout in Motortown. Photo: Willem Popelier.

CREDITS

writer
Simon Stephens (transl. Teunkie Van Der Sluijs)

choreography
Hillary Blake Firestone

composition
Thomas Myrmel

lighting design
Floriaan Ganzevoort

costume design
Clément & Sanôu

cast
Krisjan Schellingerhout
Mira Helmer
Niels Croiset
Valentijn van Hall
Esmee Dirks

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