THINX open avond: ode aan Eindhoven

About the creators:

OSCAR DE BOER
Our host for the evening is Oscar de Boer. Oscar is an actor/singer and (music) theater maker with a distinctive visual, physical and poetic style. In addition to hosting the evening, he will also be showing his own work.

Oscar studied at the Frank Sanders Academy, performed in musicals and from 2003 developed his own work in Fine Wood, Rose and Work Theater, among others. From 2013 he was active within THINX. Within THINX he founded Bende van Oz, among others. With this company he staged such plays as Wit, Windows, Lola, Vroeger eet ik ook geen vis (I used to eat no fish) and Het Predicaat. Today he is artistic director of Stichting Theaterplan and Bende van Oz, and works as a freelance director in the professional field.

ANNE VAN DER STEEN
Anne studied at the Academy of Theatre in Tilburg, where she graduated in 2016. Since then, she has past event working as an actress, playwright and documentary maker. She works with youth theater companies Wildpark and Oortwolk, among others. She also made the documentaries Anne and the garbage men and Anne (32) seeks friends for VPRO and KRO-NCRV. In 2019 Anne was attached to Parktheater as a THINX-maker. Anne mainly makes youth theater with an autographic starting point. Her work is at the intersection of theater and documentary.

MARCEL OSTEROP
Marcel Osterop is a writer, actor, playwright and singer. He af from the Amsterdam School of Drama in 2004. In 2019 he was attached to Parktheater as THINX creator.

Altstad is the band of Marcel Osterop. Together with composer/guitarist Frank van Kasteren, he writes new Dutch-language music. Their collaboration began in 2011 with the monthly theatrical current affairs program Orde van de Dag of the Nieuw Utrechts Toneel/Het Het Zuidelijk Toneel. During the ThinX evening Altstad will be joined by singer/ songwriter and producer Démira. Listen to Altstad via Spotify.

MICHÈLE RIJZEWIJK
When Michèle Rijzewijk graduated from the Academie voor Theater in Tilburg in 2013, she clearly knew what kind of theater she wanted to make: documentary theater with non-actors. Because in that form, the social power of theater comes into its own the most. On her own, she created a performance with ex-homeless people.

Thanks to the connections of homeless shelters, they were allowed to play at the Parktheater, and from there Michèle was approached for the THINX trajectory. THINX offered Michèle the chance to experiment and professionalize, and encouraged her to establish a foundation. That became the Mies-en-Scène Foundation. Michèle is currently working on Verzetsportretten (Resistance Portraits), in which Eindhoven heroines from the Second World War are linked to Eindhoven heroines with a migration background.

INEZ WOLTERS - LaPIRATESSE
Performer Inez Wolters is the creative brain behind LaPiratesse. Inez approaches her songs as visual live clips, using the play to protest and activate ourselves. In each song, she transforms into a different character always wearing a different extravagant outfit.

This evening is the kickoff of Inez THINX trajectory at Parktheater. She presents a new study entitled The Human, in which she offers her thoughts on the question: what are we all actually, simultaneously, doing? As you read this, someone is running to the train, a child is being born, someone is reading a letter from the IRS, someone is giving someone a kiss, a bomb is exploding somewhere, one person is winning a race, another is whispering "help"...