Er rent een berg voorbij / A mountain runs past (8+)

The earth has been around for 4.54 million years. Plankton shows this history (again), but now in 80 minutes and without words. From the birth of the moon, past the first algae to come ashore to the extinction of humans and even further...

How do they do that if they don't talk? Well, through a huge backdrop of cardboard rivers, clouds and trees. In this visual performance, forests slide across the stage, mountains crumble into beaches and the moon dances a waltz with the sea, while a four-part choir produces the sounds of cracking rocks and chirping birds.

Plankton creates performances that lie on the border between object theatre, visual art and mime. Where fantasy writers create worlds with elves and trolls, Plankton mythologizes electrical sockets, pebbles and fire extinguishers into landscape paintings as big as the stage!

Nominated for the BNG Theater Prize 2024 and selected for the Dutch Theater Festival 2024.

About the company

From the end of 2022, Sonja van Ojen and Hendrik Kegels started Plankton. Sonja and Hendrik graduated from the performance training of the Maastricht Theater Academy in 2019 and 2018 respectively. The duo is affiliated with the Makershuis Tilburg and started a four-year talent program at Stip youth theater productions in the autumn of 2021. They create conceptual visual theater for all ages. Their work is imaginative, sometimes absurdist and is characterized by a playful, sometimes almost naive visual language. Using imagination as a tool, they invite the audience to come closer to others and to be more attentive to their surroundings.