Grondtonen (9+)
Apr 28 -
Apr 29
Het Houten Huis / Nordland Visual Theatre / Tryater / Club Guy & Roni
“I think I am a little lost.”
In Grondtonen, a forest grows inside the house. The walls disappear between the trees, and the ground beneath their feet becomes less and less reliable. What once felt safe begins to shift. A family slowly loses its grip on their surroundings, while something starts to move beneath the earth.
When the ground begins to breathe
- Date
- April 28, 2027 - April 29, 2027
- Genre
- Children and family
- Language
- Language no problem
- Location
- Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam, Rabozaal
Grondtonen tells the story of a family getting lost in a growing forest. The world around them changes slowly but irreversibly, while the ground beneath them becomes unstable. Beneath this shifting reality, music rises from the depths, as if the forest itself is breathing, singing and responding to what happens above.
A large forest creature moves through this world, unseen until the tension becomes impossible to ignore. What begins as imagination gradually becomes tangible and unavoidable. The performance explores how fear, imagination and nature can intertwine, and how a family tries to stay grounded in a world that is literally changing beneath them.
Tickets and times
About the creative makers and collaboration
For Grondtonen, Het Houten Huis is working with Nordland Visual Theatre, Tryater and Club Guy & Roni. The companies are pooling their artistic and technical strengths to create a visual and physical theatrical world.
The collaboration builds on earlier successful productions in which design, acting and movement are closely interwoven.
Credits
Direction & script
Elien van den Hoek
Assistant direction
Anne van Dorp
Assistant direction & puppetry
Meghan Dobbelsteijn
Performance & dance
Claire Hermans, Wannes de Porre, Marie Khatib-Shahidi, Ronja Smit and others
Music, composition & puppetry
Martin Franke
Backstage & puppetry
Jesse Debille
Children's guidance & puppetry
Sieger Baljon
Choreography
Elien van den Hoek, Adam Peterson
Technical team
Tomas van Schelven, Wytze Veenstra, Nico Wijnberg
Design
Douwe Hibma, Marlies Schot
Set construction
Douwe Hibma
Props & finishing
Marlies Schot, André Kok
Costumes & props
Freja Roelofs in collaboration with André Kok
Lighting design
Desirée van Gelderen
Dramaturgy
Yngvild Aspeli, David van Griethuysen, Marleen Jongens, Nina Thunnissen
Photography
Anne Harbers
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