It's almost Christmas. While everyone is decorating Christmas trees and hanging lights everywhere, Ebenezer Scrooge is counting his money. This old man, called 'Scrooge' for short, is also a bit of a scrooge, that is, grumpy. Why is he like that? Can the children of the village perhaps teach him to become the nice Ebenezer he must have once been? Who knows, maybe the actors with their puppets in a beautiful miniature world, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra Ebenezer to take his last chance to exchange his loneliness for friendship. Come hear it and see it in A Christmas Carol.
Last chance: photo exhibition NEIGHBOURS
Visit NEIGHBOURS before, during, or after your concert at de Doelen. This photo exhibition in the Grote Zaal Foyer welcomes de Doelen’s neighbours from the Oude Westen neighborhood.
Café Marseille, pet store De Rimboe, and ice cream shop De Ijssalon set the scene for a lively area where residents of all ages and styles come together. Photographer Robin Utrecht and creative producer Mieke van der Linden shine a spotlight on this diversity with a series of portraits. Utrecht, known for his work during Lunchbreak concerts and royal state visits, shows in this series that ordinary people are anything but ordinary.
programme
Can the audience convince Ebenezer to achieve his last chance at friendship?
credits
Nicolò Foron conductor | Fons Merkies direction & text |Christiaan Koetsier en Eric Jan Lens actors | Cynthia Borst design
