This site-specific performance depicts the changing DNA of a working-class neighbourhood. It tells about feeling alienated in your own backyard. About us and them, like knows like, about Catholics and communists.
Residents take you on a journey to five intimate performances staged on different sites in the Slachthuisbuurt (abattoir neighbourhood). From an old haberdashery you walk to a rear third floor apartment and then continue on to the abattoir. You meet Siem Kossen, who as a small boy delivered meat for men who were too drunk to do their job and later made this his profession by running a successful transport company. A boarder from Twente, a region in the eastern of Holland, who came here to work for the railways in the 1950s, relates how he was teased because of his country roots. A young Moroccan woman bids you welcome with tea and Rai music and tells you how she misses her family. Animated commentary from local residents enlivens the tour.
STEK is the theatrical finale of the Verhalenkeuken (Story Kitchen). Since October 2008, Titia Bouwmeester collaborates with the primary school De Talenten and the DOCK welfare organization in realizing this successful community art project. The three organizations are the driving force behind a new community centre. They sowed the seeds that allow new forms of community spirit to blossom.
artistic direction
Titia Bouwmeester
dramatist
Floris van Delft
theatre-maker/composer
Ted van Leeuwen
creator, performer
Danielle van Vree, Brigitte Defaix, Tommie Freke, Valerie van Leersum, Ben Lammerts van Bueren
Ellen Kromhout, Lotte van Dijck, Thijs Koenen
technician
Colin Kassies
education
Nynke Deinema
general manager
Ilse van Dijk
coordination
Geja Muffels
production manager
Nynke Sluijter
directing assistant
Sanne Dorrepaal
public relations
Leonie Wijsman
coordination sales
Kimberley van Alphen
photography
Marisa Beretta
video
Marja Sonneveld
partners
Primary school De Talenten, the DOCK foundation, Stadsschouwburg and Philharmonie Haarlem, Community Art Lab, Art and Culture NH, NH Archives, neighbourhood council Slachthuisbuurt.
supported by
Haarlem, Ymere, Elan wonen, Pré wonen, ministerie van VROM, VSBfonds, Oranje Fonds, Mondriaan Stichting, Kunstenaars&CO