For Culturebot | Date of publication: Monday February 29, 2016 At the beginning of his show Now I’m Fine, Ahamefule J. Oluo tells us about his boyhood. About… Read more
Auteur: joostramaer
Escaping the Exotic | Finding New Common Ground with the Middle East
For Culturebot | Date of publication: Friday December 11, 2015 After a couple of questions from his Amsterdam audience, all with a predictable Western bias, Ossama Halal could… Read more
‘We never use texts. We use the sounds of people talking as a kind of score’
For Culturebot | Date of publication: Wednesday November 18, 2015 A snow-white expanse, filled with thousands of words, exquisitely shaped in a font called Delicious-Roman. That is what… Read more
A World Premiere Doubling as a Grand Finale
For Culturebot | Date of publication: Wednesday October 14, 2015 It is an epic; monumental and intimate at the same time. It lasts for five hours, but does… Read more
When every performance becomes an act of composition | One to one with Marino Formenti, piano ‘pugilist’ extraordinaire
For Culturebot | Date of publication: Wednesday December 10, 2014 It happened while the pianist was playing a work by the American composer Morton Feldman, which runs to… Read more
Theater should be a transformative experience | Milo Rau’s cheerful and non-cynical brand of political drama
For Culturebot | Date of publication: Friday October 17, 2014 An interview by Joost Ramaer Milo Rau’s political theater projects are almost always multistage rockets. Only, with him,… Read more
Shitstorm met spectaculaire resultaten | Dichters & Denkers
Voor De Groene Amsterdammer | Publicatiedatum: woensdag 17 september 2014 Wall Street en Washington liggen met elkaar in bed. Dat was de oorzaak van de… Read more
The Mystery of Common Inspiration
For Culturebot | Date of publication: Tuesday September 16, 2014 Right after the opening of the third and last performance of 600 HIGHWAYMEN‘s The Record in the Dutch city… Read more
Woeker en zwendel | Dichters & Denkers
Voor De Groene Amsterdammer | Publicatiedatum: woensdag 26 maart 2014 Met hun belastinghervorming in drie Boxen leken Gerrit Zalm en Willem Vermeend tijdens het tweede paarse kabinet (1998-2002)… Read more
De grondbubbel | Gemeenten schrijven stilletjes miljarden af op hun grondbezit
Voor De Groene Amsterdammer | Publicatiedatum: 12 maart 2014 ‘Gemeente verhult grondverliezen met dubieuze boekhoudtrucs’, meldde Het Financieele Dagblad op 10 februari op de voorpagina. ‘Jaarrekening gemeente leest… Read more