Cast Romeo and Juliet
Director
Ola Mafaalani
Translator to Dutch
Gerrit Komrij
Scenografie
André Joosten
Light design
Ko van den Bosch, André Joosten
Costumes
Regine Standfuss
Composition
Jan Kooper
Choreography
Ernesto Candal, Los hermanos Macana
Actors
Pierre Bokma, Janni Goslinga, Hans Kesting, Bart Klever, Celia Nufaar, Adelheid Roosen
Tango dancers
Ernesto Candal, Jorge Fatauros, Enrique & Guillermo Insfran de Fazio (los hermanos Macana), Christiane Palha.
Bandoneon player
Martin de Ruiter
Quote Unquote
june 2007
Clockwok Orange had his laast sucessfull performance a few days ago. It was hard to say bye bye, especially to the actor Stephen Payne who left for New York. I wish him so much luck and love. The cast was a miracle of support and talent. Every evening again they fighted routine and gave all there was. This production was special to me and I hope it will find its way back on stage next year and I hope international.
Next week I am invited to the festival Oerol to think of a creation fo them. I am looking foreward to that. And will come back then.
Some quotes I like:
You always find some Eskimos to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with waves.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
When the world is destroyed it will be destroyed not by its madmen but
by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its
bureaucrats
John Le Carré
Reviews on Wings of Desire
Here's a text on 'Wings' in the NYTimes:
angels who came to earth now come to the stage
By Donna Kornhaber and David Kornhaber
New York Times, 19 november 2006
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New York Times, review
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New York Times, preview
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The Boston Globe, review
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Phoenix, review
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By: CAROLYN CLAY
Volkskrant, preview
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Cast Wings of Desire
Performing damiel, angel, in love with marion
Fedja van Huêt (Netherlands
Bernard White (Amerika)
Performing cassiel, angel, friend of damiel
Bernard White (Netherlands)
Mark Rosendal (Amerika)
Performing marion, trapez-acrobate
Mam Smith
Performing Former angel
Stephen Payne
Performing homer
Frieda Pittoors
Performing thoughts and singing
Jesse Lenat
Performing thoughts and singing
Hadewych Minis
Performing Dying man
Fred Goessens
Performing newsreader
Noraly Beyer (Netherlands)
Robin Young (America)
And many others.
photos: Noraly Beyer 
the new wings generation. Andris (right) performed in Boston.
leading angels in the making off.
the great technical crew of Wings.
Team
Director
Ola Mafaalani
Translators
Ko van den Bosch, Gideon Lester
Adaptation
Dirkje Houtman, Gideon Lester, Ko van den Bosch, Ola Mafaalani
Scenografie
André Joosten
Light design
André Joosten
Costumes
Regine Standfuss
Composition
Andy Moor
Choreography air work
Mam Smith
Stage mager
Chris de Camillis
About A Clockwork Orange
Touring in mai 2007 in The Netherlands
© Sanne Peper
On tour
Mei 2007
di 08 ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN, Theater Castellum, (0172) 42 92 92
wo 09 DELFT, Theater de Veste, (015) 212 13 12
do 10 DORDRECHT, Schouwburg Kunstmin, (078) 639 79 79
vr 11 GRONINGEN, Stadsschouwburg Groningen, (050) 368 03 68
za 12 LEEUWARDEN, De Harmonie, (058) 233 02 33
di 15 BELGIË HASSELT, Cultureel Centrum Hasselt, (0032) 11229933
wo 16 HOORN, Het Park, (0229) 29 10 00
do 17 ROTTERDAM, Rotterdamse Schouwburg, (010) 411 81 10
vr 18 ENSCHEDE, Podium Twente, (053) 485 85 00
zo 20 en ma 21 AMSTERDAM, Stadsschouwburg, (020) 624 23 11
di 22 ALKMAAR, De Vest, (072) 548 99 99
do 24 'S GRAVENHAGE, Kon. Schouwburg, 0900 345 67 89
vr 25 AMSTELVEEN, Schouwburg Amstelveen, (020) 547 51 75
za 26 ZOETERMEER, Stadstheater, (079) 342 75 65
di 29 BREDA, Chassé Theater, (076) 530 31 32
wo 30 LEIDEN, Leidse Schouwburg, (071) 516 38 88
do 31 APELDOORN, Orpheus, 0900 123 0 123
Juni 2007
zo 03 UTRECHT, Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, (030) 230 20 23
ma 04 EINDHOVEN, Stadsschouwburg.Eindhoven, (040) 211 11 22
di 05 en wo 06 HAARLEM, Toneelschuur, (023) 517 39 10
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Performances
An adaptation made in 2005. On tour in mai 2007 in the main theatres in The Netherlands. A performance about violence without violence on stage. Musik and storytelling melt with dance and images. A production of d'Electrique.
Performing with the band The Ex.
Wings of Desire (Der Himmel ueber Berlin) is an adaptation of Wim Wenders monumental film. Mafaalani iniciated for the theatreadaptation an uniek international collaboration with American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) and
Toneelgroep Amsterdam, the Netherlands’ foremost theatre company. The cast of this perfromance is half Dutch and half American. The
production opened in Amsterdam in early October 2006, and toured the
Netherlands and Belgium before arriving at the A.R.T. Boston in december 2006.
Verona is a city without peace where two families are fighting. The new generation took over violence. They watch with wonderment how not understanding evokes in fear. And how fear creates violence. Until Romeo falls in love with Juliet. And Juliet falls in love with Romeo. With this meeting the fight between two families becomes a fight within one family. A new challenge.
About The Merchant of Venice (De Koopman van Venetië) (2002)
In The Merchant of Venice Shakspeare shows us a society where everything is for sale. Where love and money is connected strongly, where love is a lottery, an illusion to not face reality and turns into a fairy tale. Money is the motor. Dominated by the merchant of Venice, Antonio. The outsider Shylock is his enemy. When Antonio needs money for his best friend Bassanio he has no other solution than asking his reval Shylock for it. Shylock suggests the game: If he doesn’t get the money back in time he wants one pound of meat out of the body of Antonio. What seems to be a joke becomes deadly truth. Shylock goes to court demanding his right as it is written in the contract with Antonio: One pound out of the body of Antonio.
About Othello (2002)
A main stage production that run in Cologne, Germany for more than 2 years.
About a man who killed his wife because his best friend Jago suggested he betrays him. The monster in his head drove him to kill her brutally. Shakespeare shows how manipulation works. How a civilised society changes in murder and inrigue. A masterpeace that Mafaalani staged as brutal as the play is. The German public reacted strongly and it became a public hit. This production was invited and ran in the Schauburg Wintherthur in 2004.
About Merchant of Venice (Koopman van Venetie)
An outsider in a perfect world
In The Merchant of Venice Shakspeare shows us a society where everything is for sale. Where love and money is connected strongly, where love is a lottery, an illusion to not face reality and turns into a fairy tale. Money is the motor. Dominated by the merchant of Venice, Antonio. He creates the code. Slightly unhappy as we see in the first appearance. For his best friend Bassanio, Antonio lends money from his enemy and foreigner Shylock. Bassanio needs the money for a special investment: To win the heart of the rich Portia.
Shylock suggests the game: If he doesn’t get the money back in time he wants one pound of meat out of the body of Antonio. What seems to be a joke becomes deadly truth when Shylocks looses his daughter and therefore his future. Shylock looses her and with her his money that she took with him. As a foreigner only money gives him a livable environment in the society where he is hated as a foreigner. Revenge starts to rise and Shylock sticks to his contract that promised him one pound of Antonio’s body. He goes to court demanding his right as it is written in the contract with Antonio.
Fairy Tale
Shylock is an outsider because he is a foreigner. Portia is an outsider because she is a woman in a not emancipated world. Both only get their positions and respect only because they are rich. Both play very creative games.
One pound meet
In court these two outsiders are confronted with each other. Shakespeare shows us how creativity can be the key to law that is dictated by economics.
About Romeo and Juliet
Verona is a city without peace where two families are fighting The new generation took over violence. Romeo and Juliet live in this world not knowing different. They watch with wonderment how not understanding evokes in fear. And how fear creates violence. They watch how people not only destruct each other but themselves. En why? The reason for the family fight no one recommends. And destruction travels through generations. Until Romeo falls in love with Juliet. And Juliet falls in love with Romeo. With this meeting the fight between two families becomes a fight within one family. A new challenge.
A fight that ends in paradox desires of individuals. Everyone meets his own shadow side and meets his impossibility to survive without harming the surrounding. It becomes a fight for identity, a search for love that escalates and therefore finds its own bottom center.
Romeo and Juliet die in this life struggle: in love they kill fear and arrive at the port of eternal love. That lasts up till now for them in all the future generations. Julia: “Als ik omkom van puur genot, til hem dan op, verscheur hem tot kleine sterren: zo verrukkelijk zal hij het hemelse gelaat dan maken dat iedereen verliefd word op de nacht en dat het zonlicht uit de gratie raakt.”
Ola Mafaalani chooses the tango for it’s magnetic power, its desire for love that is impossible, and the realization of lost and of mortality. In intimacy the tango celebrates the farewell of a lover. The choreography is mainly based on the original traditional tango, the milonga. That has the same humor and playfulness as Shakespeare used in his play with words. The tango is a wonderful theatrical metaphor for life, life that is as mortal as a dance, only we do not realize it.
Romeo en Julia was Ola Mafaalani’s fifth main stage production.
Together with actress Adelheid Roosen she traveled to Verona where she got inspired by all the million love letters that visitors had sticked with chewing gum under Juliet’s balcony. Adelheid Roosen played the angel who in the end imitates human beings by killing Romeo and killing Juliet and looking in the public checking if she is a good human now. The public is shocked. She begins to realize and yearn while the dead people drink a bear in the underworld of eternity.
Mafaalani traveled to Buenos Aires where she met the dancers and researched tango for this performance.
