Last witnesses: Guilty landscape

• Date: 04 May 19:50
• Location: Koninklijke Schouwburg | Grote zaal

Tamar van den Dop performs the monologue Schuldig landschap at the Royal Theatre on May 4. A new theater text written especially for this Theater Na de Dam by playwright Nathan Vecht. About how the war and its commemoration still touch an open nerve today. It is directed by Eric de Vroedt.

It is 2030. The national government is being heard under oath about how we deal with our war past. What stories do we pass on and what do we leave unsaid? What does "Never Again" mean at a time when new wars are raging? Do those words apply to everyone? And above all, who is responsible for things having gone wrong again?

Simultaneously, actor Malou Gorter plays the same performance at Royal Theater Carré in Amsterdam.

Commemorating together in the line of The Last Witnesses

Every year the commemoration on the Waalsdorpervlakte is broadcast in the Royal Theater. At 20:00 we observe the two minutes of silence together, after which the performance begins. In line with The Last Witnesses - evenings on which stories are told from people who lived through the war - you can now see the performance Schuldig landschap (Guilty Landscape) at the Royal Theatre on May 4.

Dealing with our war past

In Schuldig landschap, Tamar van den Dop plays a character who answers for how we in the Netherlands deal with our war past. She acknowledges that things could have been done better, but resists the image that nothing went right. Apt and sometimes absurd anecdotes take us from 1945 to today; where remembrance no longer provides reflection, but is increasingly a source of polarization.

The performance is supported by live music and directed by Eric de Vroedt. On May 4, actor Malou Gorter will simultaneously play the same performance at Theater Carré in Amsterdam.

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