Theatergroep Kwatta
Theatergroep Kwatta
Light-hearted, light-footed, yet serious
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English
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Based in Theater het Badhuis in Nijmegen, Theatergroep Kwatta has been Gelderland’s professional youth theatre company since 2002. Under the artistic direction of writer and director Josee Hussaarts, Kwatta puts on productions that are both light-hearted and light-footed with a serious undertone.
Our efficient and practical world leaves little room for amazement and admiration. Kwatta’s mission is to create this room. By asking simple questions about difficult issues and difficult questions about things that appear to be simple. By making no assumptions and always searching for the unknown and the absurd. By tilting reality to create a different perspective.
Productions by Kwatta are often a combination of text and other forms of theatre such as music, song, puppetry and film. Kwatta produces two travelling shows per season. Het Badhuis hosts a home-based family show at Christmas, and in the spring it is the turn of young talent to create and put on their own production in Kwatta-lab. The Kwattaklas is a constant source of surprise and enjoyment to school children.
International:
Kwatta scored a big hit in the US with Van drie oude mannetjes die niet dood wilden/Three old men who wanted to live forever. The production was performed at the IPAY Festival in Philadelphia. It concerns three old men who receive a letter informing them that their lives have come to the end. To their mind, they are still too busy to die. The next production Kwatta would like to take abroad is Fabian, of het Land dat niet bestond/Fabian, or the Land that wasn’t (6+), a musical hike through a magical landscape full of strange sounds, where nothing is as you would expect.
Fabian, or the Land that wasn’t, photo: Edwin Deen
Youth Theatre