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De Gabber Opera
De Gabber Opera
2010, 2021/22/23, Belgium & The Netherlands“Come into our midst now, Thumper, o, Thumper, Shake the Earth, mighty Jolter” (from The Bacchae by Euripides, 406 B.C.)
Performance collective URLAND is shaving their heads and taking a hardcore trip for anyone yearning for a theatrical extravaganza. The Gabber Opera is inspired by Euripides’ The Bacchae, and portrays man’s timeless inclination to sedate, and to see ecstasy. In a God forsaken landscape we see four bald nymphs; while intoxicated, finding what they’d lost, and losing what was theirs. A Grand Story about ritual, intoxication, and all-consuming Nothingness.
De Gabber Opera is a remake of the very first URLAND performance in 2010. In the context of De Ur-triënnale 2021, the performance got a reboot and won the VSCD Mime/Performance Award at the Nederlands Theater Festival 2022.
De Gabber Opera music is available on Bandcamp.
- Performance Ludwig Bindervoet, Thomas Dudkiewicz, Marijn Alexander de Jong, Karel van Laere, Jimi Zoet
- Production Urland and Theater Rotterdam
- Light Design Varja Klosse
- Costumes Theater Rotterdam Costume Atelier (Karin van der Leeuw and Erik Bosman)
- Libretto based upon Euripides’ The Bacchae Annelinde Bruijs
- Technicians Denzo Theatertechniek (André Goos), Frank Hermans, Marcel Janssen, Ruud Lamers, Edwin van Steenbergen
- Production Leader Elise de Fooij and Andrea van Bussel
- Production assistent Nienke Kiesling
- Context Program Production Leader Mara Liza de Bakker
- Public Relations Esra J. Merkel & Pien Visser
- Business Management Jens Besse
- Photography Sandra Zegarra Patow
