When the Lockdown was slowly being lifted again in the summer of 2020, but everyone still had to stay away from each other, young actors of the house company of the Stadsschouwburg brought a show on stage in a short time. That wasn’t allowed in the theater yet, so it became Wilsonplein as a theater equipped. Grateful using the wide, step -by -step design.
Kick -off theater season
Now the public no longer has to be at one and a half meters apart. But the Stadsschouwburg has since continued the outer theater as a kick -off of the theater season.
The stories that the Club Kenau company devises and develops every year specially for this are typical Haarlems. For example, performances about the Spanish battlewoman Kenau, the four years that Napoleon was a ‘Haarlemmer’ and a fictional battle between two renowned Haarlem ice cream parlors were already reviewing.
Fight of pharmacist van der Pigge
In the performance The brave drugstore This year all attention is going to the well -known Haarlemmer Anton van der Pigge. With his small pharmacist shop on Gierstraat and Botermarkt, he once defied the advancing department store V&D.
Certainly because of those special Haarlem stories, the theater tradition born out of emergency is increasingly popular. “Already in June all the performances, including the less popular moments such as a Wednesday afternoon, were completely sold out. Bizarre!” Actor Jasper van Hofwegen could not be lucky after the try-out last week.
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