Please note: this performance is Dutch spoken
Playtime
Friday 22 November: 18:30 – 19:45
Saturday 23 November: 19:15 – 20:30
You’re a horse on a wild poetic adventure
LORCA is a poetic tribute by Joost Oomen,The Poezieboys and Explore the North to Spanish poet Federico García Lorca. The performance was one of the biggest hits at Oerol 2023. The audience also fell for this piece en masse at De Parade 2023. Now LORCA is coming to Leeuwarden for our festival!
Federico García Lorca’s play, Het Publiek, was a starting point for Joost Oomen and the Poezieboys for a poetic tribute to this murdered-by-fascists, homosexual poet. It was weirder and way more evocative than all his other works, but he wrote it because after a months-long journey, driven from home by all-consuming heartbreak, he was finally returning to the land of the Great Prince of Dreams: Salvador Dalí. To let this dadaist with curly mustache know who’s boss, Lorca wrote a play full of horses, a red nude, men with beards, an upside-down Christ, an inspector, a tambourine, a mother, a wine-o and a blizzard of glacé gloves.
There was no way for him to know that he would later have to hide that piece at a friend’s house because of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. There was no way for him to know that no one knew how to play his strange piece because he would be shot by fascists. And there was no way for him to know that eighty-seven years later his piece would become the starting point for a wild, poetic adventure—an adventure of three guys (four if you include Federico himself) who would kick the stale theater scene in the teeth.
Station Noord Hub
This project is presented as part of the Station Noord Hub. Every year, Explore the North and talent development platform Station Noord present a showcase of the top talent from the North within the festival. This concerns new work by makers who are active within Station Noord or have just left.
