War is a subject that we are all concerned about. Our children have their own ideas about it, but try as we might, we never have any real answers for them. This has prompted director Jetse Batelaan to try and take the elusive subject by the horns. With his performers Willemijn Zevenhuijzen, Tjebbe Roelofs and Martin Hofstra he went on a new Artemis adventure. For children aged  6 an up.

BIBU Helsingborg jury motivation: “When grown-ups play war in a theatrical context, war is stripped completely bare. All the heroes, all the bravery and the halo that surrounds the term is robbed of its sheen of greatness. In Oorlog, play is used as a strategy for declaring war on war itself. What remains of such a performance is a strange and inexplicable interplay between comedy and tragedy.”

WAR was awarded a VSCD Silver Cricket Award and was part of the Belgian TheaterFestival 2017 and Bibu Biennale for Children (S) 2018