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Theater na de Dam in Huis Midwoud

• 4 May 2025
  • 21:00 – 22:30

One of the two performances below will be shown on May 4 at 9:00 PM in Huis Midwoud, immediately following the Remembrance Day that takes place in front of Huis Midwoud from 7:15 PM. Please note that due to this commemoration, the road will be closed between 7:15 PM and 8:15 PM.

Silenced and Forgotten, testimonies from a concert grand piano

Yvo’s very personal performance Concealed and Forgotten, testimonies of a concert grand piano can be seen regularly in Huis Midwoud.

In this film concert story, Yvo Verschoor tells about what Frau Buch, the largest concert grand piano of Huis Midwoud, has experienced in her long life at the place where she stood from 1926 to 2011; a former psychiatric hospital in Berlin-Buch, and about how she ended up here in Midwoud.

Frau Buch turns out to have witnessed Aktion T4, a sophisticated Nazi program to eliminate as many patients as possible as cheaply and efficiently as possible from 1939 to 1941. Ultimately, this cost the lives of 300,000 people in Nazi Germany. Yvo zooms in with Frau Buch on Werner, one of the many victims, who was murdered at the age of 15, simply because he had epileptic fits every now and then and could not learn very well.

This performance, directed by Maarten Mourik, was made possible in part by the Mondriaan Fund and the National Committee for 4&5 May and premiered during corona after 10 years of research by Yvo and more than 25 years of research by Rosemarie Pumb (Berlin-Buch 1931-2020).

The performance draws attention to the hidden horrors during the Nazi regime in the run-up to the Holocaust and will continue to be seen regularly in Huis Midwoud, because exclusion, discrimination and anti-Semitism are unfortunately still very topical and so that more and more people ‘know and do not forget’.

The reactions after the last performance of Concealed and Forgotten were again truly overwhelming!

It’s not every day that people come to thank you with tears in their eyes after a performance. There were people for the second, third and even fourth time, who had brought others with them and were again completely emotional and impressed.

Thank you all for all the lovely compliments!

I hope you will continue to tell it, because this story deserves to be heard and seen.

Questions in layers; going into hiding and then? (working title)

Meanwhile, Yvo is also working on a new show based on the story of his mother, Julieke de Levie, who, like her entire family, had to go into hiding as a 13-year-old girl and ended up on Schiermonnikoog after various addresses in Friesland. She survived the war thanks to teacher Martha Karst, who took Julieke in. A happy ending does not always mean that everything goes well afterwards.

This performance is about the often unspoken traumas of war and how they can continue to affect generations and lead to ever new questions. Try-Outs of this new performance are planned for spring 2025 and hopefully the premiere will be on May 4th.

Information about which memorial performance will follow the Remembrance Day for Huis Midwoud will follow soon.

Start: 15:00 | Doors open: 14:30

Entrance: € 25.00 | Students and up to 21 years: € 12.50

Reservations: info@huismidwoud.nl