Performance Dates

Cellobiennale Amsterdam
Première
24 oktober
Cancelled due to Covid-19

A hopeful musical performance about existential emptiness

In this first solo production, cellist Amber Docters van Leeuwen invokes an impression of her adoption from the South Korean capital, Seoul. Using text, images and live cello and electronic music composed by herself, she takes us along on the very first journey she made: from the orphanage in Seoul to her new home in The Hague.
 
SOLO#1 is an innovative form of musical theatre at the intersection of concert, performance and visual theatre. This results in an exciting, almost fluid, ever-changing audio landscape that grants us intimate access to Amber’s inner world. A musical trip through a world without a beginning, where many questions remain unanswered.
 
In this production, the individual story of Amber’s adoption is the starting point for a narrative with a more universal meaning. At the heart of this is an absurdist appreciation of life and the existential questions an early adoption inevitably give rise to.

How can you miss someone you don't know?

Credits

Concept, performance, music and text Amber Docters van Leeuwen
Dramaturgy Marijn van der Jagt
Direction Jochem Stavenuiter
Decor (Globe) Cocky Eek
Lighting and video Karl Klomp
Costume Johanna Trudzinski
Technical producer Manuel Boutreur
Production Lena Meijer
Campaign image Nine Islands
Commercial management Harm Witteveen
Marketing Andrea Lentink

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