Harlekino

Katrien van Beurden raced around the world for 25 years making theater with a suitcase full of commedia masks. Until she suddenly had to lie still. Having just become a mother, with cancer in her breast, she listens to the monotonous beeping of the MRI and af, "How do you actually do that, lying still?"

There unfolds a kaleidoscopic journey past all the race survivors, the harlekinos, she met, back to Kaatje. The eight-year-old girl who, singing loudly, stuffs her dead brother's coffin with toys. In a home drowning in grief and anger, she discovers early on that play and imagination are her staunchest allies.

Harlekino is a wild, comical and poetic solo. A performance bubbling with energy and raw emotion. Katrien balances between reality and imagination. She creates, with her masks and specially composed music by Remy van Kesteren, a cinematic storm of stories.

She takes on the role of Harlekino, the iconic trickster, whose spirit has past event her long-standing fascination and driving force. He teaches us that hope is not something to believe, but something to do.

The media about Harlekino
"Play and imagination are Van Beurden's superpower." (Theaterkrant)
"In Harlekino, Katrien van Beurden shows how playing can be a survival mechanism." (de Volkskrant)
"A small performance in terms of form, but big in energy, imagination and humanity." (Ilovetheatre.nl)

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