Hearing Game Mr. Sax
How does it sound?
Mr. Sax has lived all his life in a very ordinary little square. Suddenly Mr. Sax gets a new neighbor girl. With all her household goods and one of those loud, shrill saxophones, she moves into the cottage next to his house. During the day she sits for hours rattling on her saxophone. But at night there is no rest for old Mister Sax either. Then the tones sneak, run and creep into his cottage. The melody reminds Mister Sax of...no, no, Mister Sax won't say that. A big twinkle blinkle sparkle star in the sky brings Mister Sax and the girl next door together, and a secret comes out....
Inspired by the theatrical concert The Square of Mister Sax with the Ebonit Saxophone Quartet directed by Jochem Stavenuiter.
behind the scenes
music Maurice Ravel, Felix Mendelssohn Gioacchino Rossini, Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann
implementation Ebonit Saxophone Quartet
text Sanne Schuhmacher
dramaturgy Caecilia Thunnissen
recording registry Hans Smit and Caecilia Thunnissen
actors/voices Maartje van de Wetering (neighbor girl) and Gustav Borreman (Mr. Sax)
recording and editing Frans de Rond
biographies
Caecilia Thunnissen
Director Caecilia Thunnissen, artistic director of Oorkaan since 2015, has a mission to allow the "total performer" in the performing arts to flourish as much as possible. For Oorkaan, she directed among others. Laat me met rust! with The Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, and Muzikale Catwalk and Tarantula and The Dance of the Animals with the Concertgebouw Orchestra. With Tickle she recently won the 2020 YAMaward, the international award for best musical productions for young audiences. In 2021, she will create a youth production for the Salzburg Festival, the world's most renowned festival of opera and music.
Maartje van de Wetering
Maartje van de Wetering got a permanent position with the Noord Nederlands Toneel immediately after graduating from the Amsterdam Toneelschool & Kleinkunstacademie in 2008. Since 2015, Maartje has been working as a freelance actress and singer and performed with Orkater and Toneelgroep Amsterdam, among others. She gained greater fame with the role of Esther Wegereef in the police series Flikken Rotterdam. She also appeared in the television series Celblok H.
Gustav Borreman
Gustav Borreman graduated from the Theaterschool Amsterdam in 1997. With his youth theater group Lange Mannen he has been creating musically and philosophically tinged performances for ten years. In recent years he has appeared in the television series Soof and Penoza, among others. He gained fame as Abi's father in the series of the same name. Gustav plays the father in De Familie van Nielie, a four-part big screen serial by youth theater group Kwatta. Part 2 of this was made in co-production with Oorkaan.
for home
Listen to the wonderful radio play Mr. Sax and color this coloring page in the meantime. Take a picture of the result, mail this picture to publiciteit@oorkaan.nl and have a chance to win a free download of a new Oorkaan radio play!
Download HERE the coloring page.
Upcoming concerts
27
Dec
with Amsterdam Andalusian Orchestra
3:00 PM,
Zwolle Theaters
28
Dec
with Matteo Paggi and Aviv Noam
3:30 pm,
Teatro Munganga, Amsterdam
4
Jan
5 p.m,
Theater 30cc, Leuven
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