Would be nice to do it that way all the performances.

Arnon

Is it any good? Worth the travel?

Painful. I assume these were not professionals.

Professionals also make mistakes.

Only Tommy Cooper dit it right.

Could you tell us why writers should still choose for theatre and not for film?

alsof

het je kind is

Matthias -

There's an old Hollywood joke...

"Hear about the __________ actress?

(pause)

She married the writer."

(Insert pejorative adjective before "actress" - choice depending on your nationality , or if you're at a loss, say "dumb blonde").

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Joen - I disagree. Not like that. Or if they do, they are becoming amateur before your eyes.

would be cool if the play would be performed in the southern netherlands as well.

Poor actor

I hope this weekend he knows his text again.
Dries, in the Netherlands nothing is really far away, in case you really want to see something.

'a simulacrum of dying'

Instead of slowly dying with the actor on stage you might have volunteered to act as a prompter?
Lucky thing it wasn't Stephen Fry, or there might not be another
staging of your play.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/08/28/060828fa_fact_lahr :

"(...)
Stagefright is a traumatic, insidious attack on the performer's expressive instrument: the body. The experience, with the metabolic changes it sets off, is a simulacrum of dying. Instead of being protected by the character he is playing, he suddenly stands helpless before the audience as himself… (...)"

Steve Meigs

I disagree. It has happened to the best.

Joen -
My comments were made assuming the gaff happened opening night. It did not. I found after checking the problem occurred on Tuesday before opening on Thursday. The closer to opening the more painful it is, particularly with a VIP audience, but it's not an amateur mistake, it's a dress rehearsal mistake. The old saying in the theater is, "the worse the dress rehearsal, the better the performance."

Steve

Is that one of those sayings you are not allowed to say?

Arnon

Couldn`t u help him out?

Only when you're doing that Scottish play.

Mijn meninkje: an impressive play

Yesterday I saw "De Hollanders". I'm of course only an ordinary reader (both this blog and the bloggers confuse me from time to time), but I anyway want to inform you I was impressed both by the text of the play and by the actors. I think it was very engaged and I hope more people will have the chance to see it.

nearly

is perhaps to prefer instead of almost

De Hollanders

I have now read a lot about your play-De Hollanders- crits, interviews. I teach at the Drama School of the University of Cape Town, South Africa. I presume it's not published-how please is it possible to get hold of it and some of your other plays. I am a great fan [I do read Dutch] of your books-would love to read plays as well. Sandra Temmingh-sandra.temmingh@uct.ac.za