With shouting and laughter, the players of the stainless theater will be cut last Friday. There is reason for a party, because the company has another roof over the head.
Until recently, the players were in a large cress in Dwingeloo, but that place had to give way to housing.
“Then there was pure panic,” says artistic director Leander Breen. “In the greenhouse we had a sea of space to rehearse and to save all our things. Where could we get such a place in the neighborhood?”
Breen and the team eventually started asking around in the area. A little further, in Nijsleek, they were told that the building of the former gym was vacant. “We just rang.” With success, because they could rent the building at a suitable price.
“This accommodation is a lot smaller than the greenhouse in Dwingeloo, but that is only good. We had collected far too many things,” laughs Breen.
Many boxes are still unpacked in the hallway. “I helped move,” says actor Ole Leenheer. “I think we have made at least six rides with the moving car.”
Despite the smaller area, the theater company is very happy with the current place. “No more weeds between the tiles, no leakage. No ice cold in the winter and high temperatures in the summer. Here it is dry and we have air conditioning and heating,” explains Breen.
Although the stainless theater is known for working at different locations in Drenthe, making the players a kind of nomads, the company does need a permanent place to rehearse. Last Friday that was immediately on the new place.
There the young people are again busy with the piece ‘Anne and the others’, that they also performed in 2024. For that piece, the theater company immersed itself in the collections of the Kamp Westerbork memorial center to get a picture of the lives of young people in the camp.
The young people from the play all have one common denominer: they came into contact with Anne Frank in wartime. To translate the personal experiences into a theater piece, diaries, letters and other documents have been traced. “But in this edition we make the end differently,” Breen explains a tip of the veil.
At the beginning of October the theater piece can be seen in Kamp Westerbork Memorial Center.