Theater Artemis

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Theater Artemis

Dealing with things that matter

Language: 

English/German/on request

Contact: 

Artistic director: Floor Huygen

T +31 (0)73 – 612 32 23

E info@artemis.nl

I www.artemis.nl

Since its foundation in 1990, Artemis has become one of the Netherlands’ leading theatre companies for young people. When the current artistic director Floor Huygen arrived in 2005 the company expanded its artistic horizons. Its aim since has been to reach both children and grown-ups.

The starting point of a production is always an existential issue; it should always deal with things that matter. We take a traditional approach to creating our plays which results in drama with a sense of immediacy, one human being against another, really seeing what is in front of you, really hearing something, being somewhere. Humanity is what is at stake.

 As elementary as children can be, that is the kind of production Artemis wants to create. Children and grown-ups have a lot to offer each other, and yet they often live in quite separate worlds. Artemis manages to unite children and grown-ups time and again, allowing them to experience and share the things they may not immediately understand with productions on subjects that fascinate different age groups for different reasons.

International: 

Artemis has been building a substantial repertoire since it began by commissioning new plays but more recently, it has been exploring both national and international literary and dramatic canons. One of the results is Wuthering Heights, Restless Souls (2009), which has received both a Silver and a Gold Cricket for best production and for most impressive achievement (for children and young people). It was also selected for the Netherlands Theater Festival as one of the highlights of the season. Artemis will be performing Wuthering Heights, Prime (in which children get to see themselves while grown-ups relive what it was like to be eleven) and Mouchette (a sharp and humane portrayal of two survivors who establish a strange sort of solidarity) internationally.