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What’s so funny about American elections?

 

THEATERWORKS AMSTERDAM PRESENTS

'The LookingLass'

 

PART OF THE AMSTERDAM FRINGE FESTIVAL

 

 

 

Will the Righteous Candidate fall off his narrow platform? Will the Liberal Candidate crack? Will all the king’s horses and all the king’s men arrive in time to make sense of it for the rest of us? Find these and other pressing answers when you see…

 

The LookingLass

 

 

 

A zany look at Alice’s journey through a political wonderland.

 

See it before the candidates change their positions on national health care again! 

 

By Donna DuCarme

Direction: Stuart Idell

With Saskia van Engeland, Joost van Oosterhout,

Donna DuCarme, Stephen Akehurst

Music: Luke Nyman

Set Design: Gunilla Andersson

Associate Producer: Marjan Westbroek

 

The LookingLass is be performed in English.

 

 

 

 
 

Cast and Crew, in alphabetical order:

 

Donna DuCarme

 

 

Donna DuCarme (USA/NL) did her training and early work as a theatermaker in California, before moving to New York. While in New York, she directed and produced many off-off Broadway productions and performed in a few more, before landing at the Westbeth Theater Center. At Westbeth, she served as the Associate Producer, working with such diverse American and international artists as Cy Coleman, Eddie Izzard, Ray Davies, and Pieter Dirk Uys, while also leading the New Works Program, which supported the development of new projects/artists.  She moved to Amsterdam in 2000, and took on the artistic leadership of Theaterworks soon after.  She also manages the ABC Treehouse, the not-for-profit cultural center of the American Book Center. 

 

 


Saskia van Engeland

 

 Saskia van Engeland (NL) works acts, plays and sings her way around. Since 3 years she is a self-supporting artist working in various fields of entertainment. She teaches theatrical language lessons, sings in Freddy und die Düsenjäger and The Bootlegs and hosts a show in Rotterdam every now and then. For the necessary stage vitamins she is a valued artist with Theaterworks Amsterdam.

 

Stuart Idell

 

Stuart Idell (GB) has been directing in Amsterdam for many years. His repertoire ranges from one-act plays to full scale musicals. When not directing, he is writing or acting in plays. He thoroughly enjoyed directing Looking Lass and found the classic tale as a vehicle to examine and bring alive contemporary politics a very powerful commentary. It's a show packed with energy. Enjoy it.
 

 

Joost van Oosterhout

 

 

Joost van Oosterhout (NL) has worked in several areas of performance. His educational background consists of acrobatics, Vaudeville techniques, martial arts and percussion. He worked for almost fifteen years with a theater company on a professional basis. In this capacity he developed and performed theater plays, animation and coaching projects. Apart from being a performer, he is also skilled as a director and as a teacher of theater techniques. Over the last three years he has performed in several projects with Theaterworks Amsterdam, and is now beginning to lead and direct more projects for the company.