Theater Oostpool wins Cultuurfonds prize and receives 100,000 euros

The Cultuurfonds Prize has been awarded this year to the Arnhem Theater Oostpool. The company, which is led by artistic director Daria Bukvić, receives the prize because it is ‘versatile and groundbreaking’, with performances that are ‘current, urgent, fresh and contemporary’. Oostpool is praised because it “wants to make the theater relevant and attractive for a young target group”.

The Cultuurfonds Prize is a prize for organizations “that make a difference in culture or nature in the Netherlands”. Since 2010, the Cultuurfonds has awarded this prize to innovators, drivers and example makers. The fund focuses on theater companies, artists and nature organizations.

According to Cathelijne Broers, director of the Cultuurfonds, Theater Oostpool has’ renewed itself in the past five years with a unique and polyphonic artistic team of six individual theater makers, who work together for a large, wide and young audience. They are young makers with a variety of artistic signatures, which are counted among the most promise -to -date voices in the theater field. ” Theater Oostpool, she says, “constantly challenges the audience with their sharp and lifelong performances. They are really an example of that.”

Golden letters

Since June 2021, Daria Bukvić (1989) has been artistic director of the company. The other directors and makers in the artistic team are Char Li Chung (1995), Jan Hulst (1987) & Kasper Tarenskeen (1988), Florian Myjer (1992) and Priscilla Vaudelle (1982). Dramaturgen Fanne Boland and Madelon Kooijman are part of the artistic team.

In NRC Bukvić was named Theatermaker of the Year in a year after her appointment at Oostpool. Her “appointment can be written in golden letters after a year”. With two super performances (Girls & Boys and Midsummer Night Dream) She turned out “in several respects such as the crown princess of the Dutch Theater.” Due to a burnout, her own production stopped for some time, but Oostpool remains a source of high-profile productions, such as last season The Almighty Sometimes (Bukvić director) and Madame Butterfly (Director Char Li Chung).

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