It’s nice, right?
Yeah it was really nicely done!
Genius! And original too!
Yeah! Original! And genius!
How’d you come up with that? Yeah, well.
Yeah?! You just have to make it up!
De Poezieboys hear that phrase so often when it comes to a work of art or a poem: you just have to make it up! But if we artists come up with all that, how do we do it? How do we get inspiration? And do we “come up with it” ourselves or does something or someone else do it for us?
In Je moet het maar bedenken, hè?!, the Poezieboys and Explore the North give a glimpse into the wonderful rituals of writers and other artists to get inspiration. Because there are countless possibilities: exhausting yourself completely, not sleeping for days, listening to the roar of a vacuum cleaner, opening up to the cosmos, contacting martians, or just drinking a cup of coffee and staring out the window. They go through all of that to help you do it too: just come up with it, right?!
In this otherworldly, musical and comical performance, the Poezieboys try to figure out what inspiration is and how to capture it. They wonder if, in today’s society where control is paramount, there is still room for something as slippery and elusive as inspiration.
Credits
Concept Joost Oomen, Joep Hendrikx, Jos Nargy Direction Ellen Goemans Acting Joep Hendrikx, Jos Nargy Music Nick Feenstra Design Pleun Verhees, Sjaan Hofstede Lighting Iain Hoeffnagel Production lead Sanne Priem Tour management Sander Koning Tech Dario Giustarini Marketing Dieke van der Spek, Mathé Többen A production of De Poezieboys & Explore the North With special thanks to Ministerie van OCW, Fonds Podiumkunsten, Gemeente Leeuwarden, Provincie Fryslân, Gemeente Den Haag, Fonds 21, Dioraphte, LIRA Fonds, Zabawas, Norma Fonds
