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Fri 6 Oct, at 19:45 & 21:45
Sat 7 Oct, at 19:45
Sun 8 Oct, at 19:45
‘I’m surrounded on all sides. How can I defend myself?’
A man, haunted by the war, brings the war to his home. Paranoia is the very first stage adaptation of Willem Frederik Hermans’s 1948 novella. How do we live with violence? How do we live with each other? This thriller-like adaptation—intimately performed in the stijlkamer of The Merchant House, at Herengracht 254—links Hermans’s riveting text to our time.
Willem Frederik Hermans is one of the “Big Three” authors of Dutch postwar literature. His most famous works include The Darkroom of Damocles (1958), Beyond Sleep (1966), and An Untouched House, also included in the short story collection Paranoia (1953). This new play is the directorial debut of Inge-Vera Lipsius and stars a young cast. It is conceived in the context of the Hermans anniversary year and first performed in October 2022. This revival follows the success of Lipsius’s second production, Quad Loop.
Direction/concept and adaptation: Inge-Vera Lipsius
Cast: Valentijn de Jonge, Guusje te Pas, Jasper van der Pijl, Frans Limburg
Sound: Neeltje van der Vlugt, Willem van Erven Dorens
Production: Inge-Vera Lipsius
Poster: Dinara Vasilevskaia
Photography and video: Arjen Veldt, Oscar Ramspek
With thanks to: Dirk van Weelden, Rachel van der Brug, Joris van der Meer
This project is supported by the AFK (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts) and the Amarte Fund. With special thanks to the Willem Frederik Hermans Family and the Hermans Institute. Paranoia is published by De Bezige Bij (Complete Works, Part 7).
Please note: The show contains themes of violence/abuse. It will be performed in virtual darkness in an enclosed space and contains sudden loud noises.
