Two guys, 30 years old, musicians, moderately successful, but no big hits, decide to create a hit song with the audience as co-writer. A conscious choice, the audience, because ultimately, the audience will eventually need to provide massive amounts of Spotify plays and social media shares.

The guys have one single goal: To write that one song that no one will be able to get out of their head, that everyone can sing along to. The ultimate hit song, and with it, eternal fame. The occasional sensible lyric, the fact that the song hits you exactly where it hurts, and that it tackles its subject with precision: all pure coincidence.

In 45 minutes, they co-write a potential new hit song with the audience. In the writing process, the audience provides the most important ingredients: theme, genre, key, etc. Every show, a new song is written.

Maarten Heijmans records his version of Ramses Shaffy’s repetoir on his album RAMSES. This spring, Maarten Heijmans and his band play the songs from RAMSES live, during the RAMSES album tour.

The collection of songs that Maarten selected for RAMSES contains well-known Shaffy songs such as ‘Sammy’, ‘Laat me’, Zing vecht’, and ‘We zullen doorgaan’, but he was determined not to have this be a Best of, containing only sing-along songs. “The Shaffy songs that have touched me most, might be among his lesser known work, songs like ‘Als je niet bij me bent’ or ‘Slaapliedje’. Each song on this album has meant a lot to me during preperation for and shooting of the television show, and I’ve managed to add something personal to each of the tracks”.

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With ‘Een antwoord op alle vragen’ (‘An answer to all questions’), Laura van Dolron builds a safe space for questions, in a laboratory full of answers. Assisted by actor and writer Willem de Wolf (de KOE), and musicians Wilko Sterke and Frank van Kasteren (Circus Treurdier, Orde van de Dag), she invites her audience to write down a question. The questions form the basis for a show that is composed live every night, on a knife edge, with humor, but also the ambition to find the answers the audience deserves!

A philosophical theatre-concert full of searching and finding, full of hope and despair, and eventually, maybe, an answer that transcends all questions.

In a new season of the dark comedy TreurTeeVee, the inhabitants of the city of Yolandia struggle with life’s big themes. The show combines sketch and drama, absurdism and romance, the deadly serious and the outright silly. Familiar characters Frederik Kaak, Yolanda, and Uusbief, can be seen alongside new faces, in a world that has been completely designed.

Besides already known characters, such as the chainsmoking, unstable psychotherapist Yolanda, perverted plebe Uusbief and egocentric success-presenter Frederik Kaak, we are also introduced to new inhabitants of Yolandia. Like Kalle (Jan-Paul Buijs), a young man who suffers greatly from a broken heart, and is suing his ex. And the very normal teen girl Winnie (Ellen Parren), who has the firey dream of becoming a superstar, but lacks the necessary talent. Jan de Beer (Peter van Rooijen) is a staunch conservative in a hyper-modern world. And butcher Margje (Ellen Parren), who is deathly afraid of The Nothing.

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One day, all the shy people drop dead. At the same time, suddenly, all of them. A small municipality organizes a funeral for all the shy inhabitants who have passed away, and they are very keen to speak.

‘The Funeral of the Shy’, the first film by Circus Treurdier, has arrived! Last September, the film premiered at the Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht, entering the Gouden Kalf contest. The film was created within the context of the program NTR-Kort! and is another collaboration with producer Pupkin, also co-creator of TreurTeeVee was. After a great reception at the festival, this adventure will continue: the film was selected for Go Short, the international short film festival, in our very own Nijmegen.

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