Theatre Gajes has turned the classic story ‘The Odyssey’ into a wondrous, spectacular and poetic performance. The square is transformed into one big playing floor where audience, players, musicians and objects move together. The life-size ship of Odysseus sails right through the audience on its way home. Dangerous monsters, seductive nymphs, angry gods, they pop up from all sides and immerse the audience in a unique theatrical experience that stimulates all the senses. Supported by a team of local volunteers, Theatre Gajes provides an exciting, moving, humorous evening to remember
Odysseus is the smartest hero of them all. The gods love him. After ten years of waging war in faraway Troy, it’s time to return home. He boards his ship and sails expectantly back to his beloved island and to his wife. But not all the gods have his best interests at heart. And so Odysseus and his crew become playthings in a feud between the gods, and his return journey seems to have become an impossible task. He will need all his cunning to overcome the dangers he faces along the way to get home safely.
acting Albert Klein-Kranenburg, Maarten van den Berg, Nynke Borgman, Joyce van Esch, Christiaan Bloem, Nard Verdonschot, Norbert Busschers, Guido de Wijs, Bas Verduijn, Luka Kooijmans
music Sebastiaan Flier, Fleur Dikken and Marjet Spook
director Jeroen Kriek and Maartje Keijzer
idea and concept Maartje Keijzer
musical coach Dick Hauser
set design Douwe Hibma
costume Tessa Verbei
text Nard Verdonschot
lighting and sound Valentijn van der Mieden
preproduction Sophie Simenel
production Enno Lobo, Mette Bunskoek en Jose Kistenkas
head of volunteers Joram Westen
volunteers 374 local volunteers (from the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Russia, Belgium and Portugal)
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