Sofie Knijff

Café Brabant

Het Zuidelijk Toneel
Fri 8 May '26 - Sun 10 May '26
About the very last round of a brown pub
Fri 8 May '26
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Sun 10 May '26

Café Brabant brings 'good people' on the floor: professional actors, Brabant leisure players and the Breda band Juuk together in one performance. Rising director and regional star Jessie L'Herminez creates this performance about homesickness and the many feelings the concept of 'home' can evoke.

In Café Brabant we sympathize with the owner and regulars of a pub on the verge of bankruptcy. They cling to tables, habits and each other, because this pub is their home. The pub owner holds on like a captain on her own Titanic. An expat hopes to find a new home and friends there. An adolescent, on the other hand, is desperately looking for the exit and a place of his own. The band plays on until the last sip and sob.

When a young entrepreneur walks in and sees his chance to exploit the charming local atmosphere, the question arises: will this be a new beginning or the final farewell?

  • Venue performance: CKE, Pastoor Petersstraat 180, 5612 LW Eindhoven

About Jessie L'Herminez
Jessie L'Herminez (1990) is a director and studied Theaterdocent in Tilburg and Regie at the Academie voor Theater en Dans in Amsterdam. She creates idiosyncratic performances in which text, physical play and musicality come together. Her work has past event seen at Toneelschuur and on various Dutch stages, with titles such as Thieves, The Chairs and her most recent work Het Proces. In 2024, she was nominated for the VSCD Mime/Performance Award. With Café Brabant , Jessie commits herself to Het Zuidelijk Toneel for the first time.

Credits

Directed by Jessie L'Herminez Play Sayo Cadmus, Raf Stekelenburg, Laura van de Werf, Roy Sijkens, Annemieke Zwaans, Eefje van loon, Mirjam Brouwers, Peggy van Breugel, Sanaz Ghorbanitarghi Band JUUK Ben Gelens, Lukas Ruijs, Maurijn de Vries, Peter Mingaars, Tie Schellekens, Willem van der Sande Lyrics Jessie L'Herminez, Femke Arnouts, Sayo Cadmus, Raf Stekelenburg, Laura van de Werf, Roy Sijkens Dramaturgy Joachim Robbrecht Directing assistant Femke Arnouts Music Roy Sijkens & JUUK Lighting design Arco Middendorp Technology De Jongens van Het Zuidelijk Toneel Costumes Robin Kersten Extras Anke Petersen, José van den Boogaart, Nikola Jovic Photography Sofie Knijff

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