Noverman: “The piece is about Nieuwlande and what happened here during the Second World War. Many people know that the village has a great resistance history. We used a piece of it as inspiration to make a performance.”
Nieuwlande, known for resistance fighters Arnold Douwes and Johannes Post, is also called ‘the village that was silent’. During the war, the village offered a lot of shelter to Jewish people in hiding and received the Yad Vashem monument as a tribute.
In the meantime the actors are walking in and trains in succession. In a place they gather, after which they jump aside, because an (imaginary) jeep comes by. The scene is practiced a number of times to perfect it. With great pleasure, because the players enjoy the sun.
From silent soil focuses on a woman called ‘grandma’. She experienced Nieuwlande during the Second World War. An actor plays the role of an RTV-Drenthe reporter who wants to interview grandma about her past.
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