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Plankton

Er rent een berg voorbij

Plankton adapts Earth's 4.54-billion-year history into a brand new language-free opera for all ages.

This is the monumental story of how our earth is constantly changing, told through a huge backdrop of cardboard rivers, clouds and trees. In Er rent een berg voorbij, forests crawl across the stage, mountains crumble into beaches and the moon dances a waltz with the sea, while a four-voice choir makes the sound of creaking rocks and chirping birds. Get carried away by an immense landscape painting brought to life that makes you think on a different time scale. From the birth of the moon, past the first algae coming ashore, to the extinction of man and even beyond....

Plankton is the collective of Sonja van Ojen and Hendrik Kegels. With their shared fascination for the magic of the everyday, they create performances that lie on the borderline between object theatre, visual art and mime. Where fantasy writers create worlds with elves and trolls, Plankton mythologises power sockets, pebbles and fire extinguishers. In a committed way, but always with a gentle hand, Plankton gives a stage to the non-human, the things that don't normally get a say. They create worlds in which things no longer exist as a function of man. In which man is no longer the centre, not above everything else, but in between, on equal footing.