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imaginative musical theater about feelings of homesickness and making weatherproof plans for the future (6+)
The water is rising and fast as well. Janna and her parents have to leave their country. Packed and ready, they step into the boat that will take them to the other side, to a new life. But to her horror, Janna discovers that her rabbit Marietje is not on board. Without even thinking, she jumps back onto land. And so begins a musical search across her native land for her beloved bunny. Across places from the past, via miraculous encounters with a woodworm, a herring king and a lighthouse keeper's cat, until after a dive she finally ends up with Marietje in the land of the future.
With a lot of humor and a touch of Alice in Wonderland, Ensemble Black Pencil, together with actress Yara Alink, brings the history of Schokland musically to life. Once an island in the Zuiderzee, now a UNESCO World Heritage site. Shockwave is an imaginative musical theater performance about what happens when the climate becomes so confused that you are forced to leave everything behind. About saying goodbye to the old and making weatherproof plans for the future. About the power of imagination and the magic of music, which can tame waves, raise landscapes to the sky, and package beautiful memories in such a way that you can never lose them.
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Reviews
De Theaterkrant, Sander Janssens, February 24, 2025
With threatening sighing sounds and squeaking whistles, music collective Black Pencil immediately blows a storm over the stage. Beautifully dissonant sounds are pressed from an accordion, brushing wind carries away from the sound box of a violin.
The main strength of this small, three-quarters of an hour show is in the interaction between the clear, down-to-earth acting of Alink, and the five musicians on the stage. Her parents are sad-left alone on the boat – can be heard in the comfort of the violin playing and the deep, familiar sounds of the accordion. Janna's inner turmoil, sways in the nervous percussion.
Entire worlds [are] evoked: from a fish dance in a mysterious underwater world to the posh mayoral village of Middelbuurt, where stately organ-like sounds from the accordion evoke the expensive houses and large churches.
Hanna van der Woude, September 26, 2024
An ode to the childish imagination
