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Babel book of errors 1-5

Speelperiode: april 2011

Coproductie Elsinor Teatro Stabile di Innovazione

In het kader van Platform 11+ werkt Theater de Citadel samen met het gezelschap Elsinor Teatro Stabile di Innovazione uit Italië aan de voorstelling Babel (werktitel). Begin september is een deel van De Citadel afgereisd naar Milaan voor de eerste repetities. In april 2011 zal de voorstelling te zien zijn in ons eigen theaterhuis en bij Elsinor Teatro Stabile di Innovazione in Italië.

BABEL book of errors 1-5
The old King Nimrod, the only survivor of the Big Disaster, sees his town Babel growing and growing. Unity is no more evident. So he decides to build a tower as high as the sky as a symbol of prosperity and understanding. What do young Haran, Ylon and Sem think of it? Haran is dreaming of a paradise regained, Ylon is desperate about vanity of life, and Sem is looking for his own position to Nimrod and the others. The ancient God, seeing the approaching of the tower, is irritated and sends another language to the town of Babel to disturb the building of the tower. Still friendship and love are bringing the inhabitants sometimes a bit closer and the building of the tower goes on. Will it be finished?

BABEL book of errors 1-5 is a play for 12-14 year old kids, on the struggle between the longing for understanding and unity on the one side and the eternal mistrust and developping individual identity on the other. Humor and bitternes are alternating in the playful fantasy on the Biblical story of Babel, written for the cooperation of Teatro Elsinor and Theater de Citadel. Although being played in two languages, both the Italian and the Dutch audience can understand every word of the misunderstanding.