In 1973, Franz Xaver Kroetz wrote a special play in which there is no speaking: Wunschkonzert. A woman comes home from work, she watches the news and listens to 'Wunschkonzert', a radio program with request numbers. What seems like an ordinary evening takes an unexpected turn. Exactly fifty years later, Jessie L'Herminez stages a visual, absurdly hilarious version about the evening rituals of a woman in 1973 and a woman in 2023: while one loses herself in weaving a tapestry, the other dives into a self-help podcast about ' being creatively alone'. Search song is an ode to all lonely women who keep smiling despite everything.
Exactly fifty years later, Jessie L'Her…
In 1973, Franz Xaver Kroetz wrote a special play in which there is no speaking: Wunschkonzert. A woman comes home from work, she watches the news and listens to 'Wunschkonzert', a radio program with request numbers. What seems like an ordinary evening takes an unexpected turn. Exactly fifty years later, Jessie L'Herminez stages a visual, absurdly hilarious version about the evening rituals of a woman in 1973 and a woman in 2023: while one loses herself in weaving a tapestry, the other dives into a self-help podcast about ' being creatively alone'. Search song is an ode to all lonely women who keep smiling despite everything.
Exactly fifty years later, Jessie L'Herminez stages a brand new version, played by sisters Lisa and Marie Groothof. Jessie, Lisa and Marie share a great love for slapstick and physical amplification. Request number is a virtuoso, visual and absurdly hilarious performance about the evening rituals of a woman in 1973 and a woman in 2023. While one loses herself in weaving a tapestry, the other dives into a self-help podcast about 'being creatively alone'. '. The story of a woman's life in two different eras is told with humor and compassion - an ode to all lonely women who keep smiling despite everything.
GOLDEN PALACE
Golden Palace has been making magical-physical theater about the absurd tragedy of life for more than 20 years and, according to de Volkskrant, the company does so “razor-sharp, humorous and with the eye of an excellent anthropologist”. This season Jessie L'Herminez makes a performance at Golden Palace as a guest director. Jessie is a talented theater maker who graduated from the Directing Course of the ATD in Amsterdam in 2019. Since then she has made a name for herself with performances in a comic-grotesque physical performance style. Request number will be played by Lisa and Marie Groothof.
LISA AND MARIE GROOTHOF
The daughters of actress Leny Breederveld and actor René Groothof both studied at the Mime Course of the Academy for Theater and Dance in Amsterdam. Marie founded the Schwalbe mime company with her graduating class and also worked with Moniek Merkx, Noël Fischer, Jetse Batelaan, Jakop Ahlbom and Boogaerdt/van der Schoot. Lisa has appeared with Golden Palace, Maas, her own company De Leedbewachters and plays in the action film theater hit Knock-Out by Jakop Ahlbom Company.
