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PROGRAM

We select a few beautiful performances, shows and concerts, where the Dutch language plays not an important role.  

 


 
Music
Wednesday March 3rd 
Carnaval de Buenos Aires by Quinteto Tango Extremo
20.30 hrs / Big Hall / Admittance fee € 17,50
 
A super exciting fusion of tango, jazz and film about the legendary and smashing Carnival of Buenos Aires.
 
"Carnaval de Buenos Aires" is a unique project of world jazz & movie, by the Quinteto Tango Extremo, in cooperation with two Argentinian keyboard players, guitar player Gustavo Mozzi and percussionist Facundo Guevara who will fly in from Buenos Aires, especially for this project.
The music from the seven piece strong formation is a tribute to the stimulating carnival of Buenos Aires and will be strongly supported by the life size, projected nostalgic images of a carnival celebrating Buenos Aires, from the beginning of last century.
 
Guitar: Gustavo Mozzi
Percussion: Facundo Guevara
Violin: Tanya Schaap
Soprano Saxophone: Ben van den Dungen
Accordion: Hans van der Maas
Piano: Rob van Kreeveld
  

Music 

Sunday March 14th
Van Merwijks Music Machine by Lucas van Merwijk with special guest Manou Gallo
20.30 hrs / Big Hall / Admittance fee € 17,50
 
For each new edition of Van Merwijks Music Machine Lucas van Merwijk introduces a whole new band and he invites a special, international guest. In March 2010 he will welcome Manou Gallo. This charismatic percussionist / bass player / singer hails from the Ivory Coast. Already at a very young age she engaged in playing African percussion. Up till then this was only done by men. Her rhythmic skills on drums and bass turned her into a celebrity in whole West Africa. In the new version of VMMM she will be able to shine, next to Lucas in an African program with banging percussion, wonderful African songs and virtuoso and swinging bass playing.
 
Drums/Percussion: Lucas van Merwijk
Bass/Percussion/Singer: Manou Gallo
Percussion: Aly N’Diaye Rose
www.lucasvanmerwijk.nl
 
 
Youth
Saturday March 27th
Splash by De Meekers Uitgesproken Dans
15.00 hrs / Big Hall / 8+ / Admittance fee €10,00 child €7,50
 
Be flooded with joy, visual poetry, gripping movements and sharp wit.
 
Splash! is all about water. This is no water ballet but dance theatre with an amusing look at a serious theme. Water is indeed the fountain of all life. Our forefathers came from the water. Up to 70% of our body is made up of water. And our future depends on it.
 
Splash! investigates the many aspects of water, from the ordinary to the most unusual aspect. Not only here in the Netherlands, where water is present abundantly and usually well under control, but worldwide in a greater context, in the past, in the future and in our dreams. How to live with too little water or just with too much; water as a source of sensual pleasure and water as a danger to fear of; water as a reason for war, or water just as a reason to keep the peace. Splash! fantasizes about the creative ways you can live under water, or on a sinking island, or in a dry riverbed. How to deal with water that is too cold, too warm, too salty of too polluted?
 
Choreography: Arthur Rosenfeld
 
Family
Wednesday April 21st
De lopende lijn by De Stilte
Dance / 15.00 hrs / Big Hall / 4+ / Admittance fee € 10,00 Child € 7,50
 
Price reductions
No beverage
 
De Lopende Lijn (The Walking Line) shows the consequences of ones own fictions in a playful, exciting dance performance for children from 4 years up. If I cannot find something I will make it myself. If I am hungry I draw a sandwich. No, a piece of pie. If I want to travel I build a ship. Whenever I'm cold I draw a coat. And if I'm alone I draw a friend. I like to do these things myself. But if I don't pay attention the drawing will start a life of its own. Will wasps crawl on my glass and will mosquitoes fly around my head? Will a dragon show up on the wallpaper? 
Jack Timmermans choreographies are playful and spontaneous and almost seem to take shape on the spot' Trouw - 27 augustus 2008
 
Choreography: Jack Timmermans
 
side programming: workshop by De Stilte
 
Music
Saturday April 24th
Concert Eduardo Trassierra
Flamenco / 20.30 hrs / Big Hall/ Admittance fee € 17,50
 
Theatre guide
Beverage
Price reductions
 
Rising flamenco talent
 
Guido De Clerq of impresario agency La Barraca from Belgium has a perfect nose for tracing young and pure flamenco talent. So now he brings young student and guitar player Eduardo Trassierra to the Netherlands. At the age of nineteen Trassiera won the prestigious “Giraldillo del Toque”. This prize, won at the XII Bienal de Flamenco in Sevilla, will only be awarded by and to the very greatest. In 2004 he then also triumphed in Córdoba where he got the “Juan Carmona Habichuela” award at the Concurso Nacional de Arte Flamenco and he also was a laureate at the Concurso Internacional de Guitarra Flamenco de Concierto.
No one, except for Paco de Lucia, has been praised so much at such a young age.
Without a doubt Eduardo Trassierra is one of the greatest flamenco stars to become.
 
www.la-barraca.be
 
 
 
 
INFORMATION ABOUT THE THEATRE
 

History
At it's founding Theatre De Regentes was the largest covered swimming bath in Europe. In the building with Art Deco elements - stemming from 1920 - many inhabitants from The Hague obtained their swimming certificates or visited the tearoom, situated on the first floor.
 
Swimming pool
In the eighties the building was turned down as a swimming pool because of sharpened legislations with regard to hygiene and environmental policy. Due to renovation - and maintenance costs being too high it was decided then, in 1995, to close down and dismantle the premises. After its close-down the neighbourhood took the initiative to maintain the distinct building and to give it a new function for the colourful, yet somewhat fallen into decay area. The municipality has embraced this initiative by giving the building on loan to the, in the meantime newly established, Foundation Zwembad de Regentes. Meanwhile in the still closed swimming pool the first theatre project was organized, in 1996.
 
Theatre
Due to several rebuildings and the applying of new facilities through the years Theatre De Regentes has grown into a full-fledged theatre with five halls:
 
- The Bigh Hall (the former swimming pool hall) with 380 seats
- The Small Hall (the former paddling pool) with about 45 seats
- The Kettlehouse (the former boilerhouse) with about 35 seats
- The Deep (the former bassin of the swimming pool)
- The Studio
 
The programming brings you drama, youth performances, dance, (world)music, music theatre and small-scale opera. Besides that the theatre is part of the programming of several local and domestic festivals, such as the Holland Dance Festival, Day in the Surf, the Cadance Festival en the World Music theatre festival. 
 
The exceptional architecture and the authenticity of the building (which can be found in the façade and the tiling among others), the service-conscious staff en the nearly Off Broadway-like atmosphere turn De Regentes into an atmospheric and unique theatre.
 
Opening Hours
Reservations and ticket sales from tuesday up to and including friday from 12-17.00 hrs. and on saturday from 14 till 17.00 hrs. The pay desk is open as of 1 hour before the start of the performance and half an hour before the beginning of an introduction.

Accessibility
Tram lines 3, 11 and 12 will bring you to the theatre.
Your entrance ticket wil give you free admission to HTM trams/buses for all programmed performances by De Regentes, in this theatre on the day of the show. Your ticket is valid as of two hours before the show until the last ride of the day.
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