Etiket: adaptation
More opportunities for water boards to apply the profit principle and invest in climate adaptation | News item
News item | 31-03-2023 | 4:45 pm The Dutch water authorities will have better opportunities to apply the so-called benefit principle (who benefits, pays). In this way they can make…
Everything flows in Jack Nieborg’s stunning ‘Romeo and Juliet’ adaptation at the Globetheater in Diever | review ★★★★★
If Romeo and/or Juliet (yes, it’s a bit complicated) survive it once and you get this. “Never has a love ended more lonely than this”, is the conclusion in Diever,…
In NITE’s adaptation of “Iphigeneia in Aulis,” Iphigeneia is furious
In Euripides’ Tragedy Iphigenia in Aulis the young eponym is a leaf that sways on the waves of the wind. Adults decide that she should be sacrificed to the gods.…
Minister Harbers gives the go-ahead for ‘Champion Group’ of countries that share knowledge about climate adaptation | News item
News item | 14-11-2022 | 13:15 At COP27 in Egypt today is the opening of the Dutch initiative ‘Champions Group for Deltas and Coastal Zones’. The Champions are countries that…
Embarrassing moment in ‘The very smartest person’: nobody knows anything about ‘Memory’, Erik Van Looys film adaptation of ‘De Zaak Alzheimer’
Painful moment in the often all-decisive round of films of the ‘Very smartest person’. No candidate could say anything meaningful about ‘Memory’, the remake of ‘De Zaak Alzheimer’ and –…
See How They Run is not a film adaptation of The Mousetrap, and yet it is ★★★☆☆
See How They Run As soon as Agatha Christie’s play The Mousetrap turned out to be a success in the London theatre, not long after its premiere in 1952, several…
In the Dutch adaptation, ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ is an extremely entertaining musical
The musical ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, with Remko Vrijdag as Willy Wonka (right).Statue Margot de Heide Five children are given a tour of Willy Wonka’s magical chocolate factory, only…
Prime Minister Rutte at Africa Adaptation Summit in Rotterdam | News item
News item | 01-09-2022 | 17:26 Prime Minister Rutte will attend the Africa Adaptation Summit in Rotterdam on Monday 5 September 2022. Organized by the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA),…
Eren Elmalı after Istanbulspor – Trabzonspor match: I got over the adaptation process very quickly
Trabzonspor defeated Istanbulspor 2-0 in the first week of Spor Toto Super League. After the match, Trabzonspor football player Eren Elmalı made a statement to the press.…
“Paper Girls”: comic adaptation without bite (criticism & stream)
The impossibility of an even remotely adequate adaptation of a comic in film or series form is particularly evident in the series “Paper Girls”. Writer Brian K Vaughn rouses the…