BANG
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Sat 7 Nov '2620:30On location: Pand P - Great Hall (Leenderweg 65)
Tickets Normal € 19,50
You're nineteen, just moved up, just started a new education, and suddenly you're scared. At first you hope it's just a dip, but the fear remains. Afraid of mirrors, of eyes, of people on the street. You are startled by loud noises and af if what you hear, think and check is still true.
At twenty-five, you sit down and try to make sense of the past few years. Does it get better, or do you remain forever stuck in this endless fear. In BANG, Hanneke van der Paardt pulls her life apart and then tries to put it back together again.
BANG is about those bizarre years when you have just left your parents, but haven't arrived anywhere else yet. About how fear can grab you mercilessly in that phase and about the question of what on earth to do then.
With BANG, Hanneke van der Paardt won the BNG Theaterprijs 2025, the award for emerging theater talent in the Netherlands.
The media about BANG
"Unique insight into the mechanism of fear." (Jury Report BNG Theater Prize 2025)
"Tad studentish and overconfident, at the same time nihilistic and existential." (Theaterkrant)
"An abrasive experience." (NRC)
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"A grand, comforting act."
About Hanneke van der Paardt
Hanneke van der Paardt is an actor, writer and playwright. She makes linguistic, transparent and razor-sharp work with a strong autobiographical slant. Her personages think out loud, doubt, analyze and fully expose their emotional world. Hanneke was part of the ensemble of Theaterhaus Jena under the artistic direction of Acting Group Wunderbaum. Besides her theater work, she writes for the Theatererkrant, plays in films and is one of the faces of Club LEES, VPRO's online reading club.
Credits
Concept text and acting Hanneke van der Paardt Direction Gillis Biesheuvel
