Sem Abelskamp flies in full, after he has set up his blonde wig, sitting on the washing machine that forms the decor. “We’re going to do it: The Story of My Life“He screams. That’s just the beginning. When he tells, starting at his birth, he constantly shoots in affected voices, kitty gestures and grotesque facialism.
He does an interview half and half or his performance, with a tea towel on a broomstick in the role of discussion partner. It becomes surprising and super funny when he starts singing, and his life story is partly as a musical, still in conversation with himself.
This Sem is a fantastic, who presents itself as celebrity and juggles with facts. He talks about a boy who wants to be a girl, whose mother dies, or not, who goes to Broadway and becomes a star there, or not, and who as a young gay love loves a holiday love who ends in a minor. After which he numbs his pain with sex.
But then he experiences an incident that completely misses him. At that event, Abelskamp suddenly delivers all the show behavior, and shows a flash of the calm, hurt man underneath. In half an hour he completes an impressive process in this way, with his rich talent overwhelmed. He is a name to keep an eye on.
Abelskamp is one of the three short acts that the evening -filling program of the The debut forms. The debut Is the glorious project of Via Rudolphi Productions, in which the most striking graduation shows of the year are always presented.
Neele Kamerbeek & Demi Dijstelberge in ‘La Blood Under La Nails’.
Photo Bart Grietens
The duo Neele Kamerbeek & Demi Dijstelberge has also been selected and the title of their performance already indicates how Tongue in Cheek Their approach is: La Blood Under La Nails. The two play a crazy parody of reasons, in a appearance with long hairs, hot pants and lavish makeup. Dijstelberge dances fake-sealing, until she cuts the sword that she holds. She continues with that while the blood flows excessively.
The alienation is increased because Kamerbeek is sitting on the left on the floor behind a table and does the voice of her partner through a microphone, which is completely distorted from the speakers. The intervention of a doctor is short, but hilarious. All the madness is well hit, but at the end the act stays in more of the same: crazy dancing and sound effects (although the slits cover is from I Heard Through The Grapevine A gift).
Ramez Basheer in ‘Ramlet’.
Photo Bart Grietens
A striking graduation performance is also the third performance, Ram from Ramez Basheer. In the first place because he stands between the people of their twenties as almost in their forties. He starts on the most famous stage sense of stage, “being or not” to interrupt himself and to reveal his life story, which is also about this existential question.
The Palestinian born in Syria had to flee and ended up in the Netherlands, where he was going to do the theater school. Basheer is a driven, enthusiastic narrator, who, even though he has not yet fully mastered Dutch, can include his audience in his story. That flight story, with numerous barriers in the Netherlands, is unfortunately too little specific to surprise. Fortunately, he has enough appearance to fascinate for half an hour, and to win the sympathy of the room.
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