Cat Smits Company [NETHERLANDS]
Nouveau Fuck
26TH MAY, 17:00 PM
CINETEATRO CURVO SEMEDO
Age Rating: M/18
Duration: 55 min
Price: 4.00€
“By sharing the poster of the theater show Nouveau Fuck, the Plein Theater in Amsterdam sadly lost their Facebook page. The giant sculpture of a vulva, posed between the legs of director Cat Smits, appeared not to be the problem: it was the bare nipple on the poster that caused the strict censorbots to declare it unacceptable.
The entire page was taken down.” In the theater piece Nouveau Fuck, based on the magnificent manifesto by Stella Bergsma, Cat Smits and Meike van den Akker welcome the audience into a new world. A fresh way of seeing.
A movement to move you. This hyperfeminist puppetry performance is a tantalizing, provoking interpretation of the manifesto. Nouveau Fuck is a co-production between Cat Smits Company and Figurteatret i Norland.
Concept/director Cat Smits
Script Stella Bergsma
Performance Cat Smits e Sanne van Dijk
Voice Over Stella Bergsma
Puppeteers Cat Smits e Sanne van Dijk
Design and costumes Elze van den Akker
Music Wim Selles
Film Thomas Brand
Lighting Mark Verhoef
Dramaturgy Dr. Maja Hertoghs
Consultant Director Duda Paiva
Technical consultants Jan Sol, Esther Love, Mark Verhoef
Producer Barbara Reijs
Management Onno Ephraim
Photo credits Poster design: Studio Matusiak
Photography Eddy Wenting & Paulina Matusiak
Make-up Pam Stinis
Acknowledgements Haags Theaterhuis and Anne Dronkers and Luke Deane
Cat Smits studied Musicology, obtained a Bachelor of Arts at the Theatre School in Amsterdam and specialized in puppetry at l’Ecole Internationale de la Marionette in Charleville-Mezières.
Under Cat Smits Company she creates physical, visual and multiform theater-film productions. She makes foam sculptures that shine in her own work, and in productions of other companies.
Her foam rubber sculptures travel the world (Canada, Russia, UK, and Iceland). Puppetry, physical play, text, dance, shadow play, music and video are regular ingredients. With great layers and touching themes, CSC’s performances appeal to the imagination. CSC’s performances are touching, topical and thought-provoking.
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