ELSE IS A VERY COMMON DANISH NAME 6+

If you call a bicycle tyre a ‘hammer’, can you hammer with it?
Do shoes have to be worn only on your feet?
Can you walk on the wall?
If everyone else thinks you are a dog, does that mean you won’t have to go to school?

 

ELSE IS A VERY COMMON DANISH NAME 6+

 

questions why things are the way they are. Life is full of agreements on how to behave. Imagine what happens if these agreements would no longer exist?

Three people enter an abandoned house packed with objects that state to be something else. That is funny, but can be pretty confusing too. How do you cope when all things no longer are what they used to be, and you don’t understand a thing of the world around you?

 

The three of them try to get a grip on who and where they are. They discover the fun of using things differently. And it makes sense, if everyone gets along…

 

ELSE IS A VERY COMMON DANISH NAME 6+

 

is visual, absurd and philosophic theatre and it’s loaded with tableaux, self-inventions and slapstick crashes. Artemis asked Mimetheatergroep Bambie to create a performance together: Bambie’s very first for young ages!

“Nothing is as it seems in this absurd performance”
De Volkskrant
“The imagination is celebrating”
– Brabants Dagblad
“Cheerful theatrical adventure on unknown territory”
– Theaterkrant
Coproduced by

Theatergroep Bambie

Final direction

Jetse Batelaan

Concept & performers

Paul van der Laan
Jochem Stavenuiter
Tessa Jonge Poerink

Dramaturgy

Marijn van der Jagt

Set design

Hester Jolink

Costumes

Liesbet Swings

Costumes assistance

Johanna Trudzinski
Tina Schott

Music

Wim Conradi

Light design

Desiree van Gelderen

Director assistance

Noah Janssen