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Unique ticket sales apply to this unique 24-hour performance. We advise you to read all information here before ordering tickets.
In The Second Woman actress Georgina Verbaan repeats a single scene 100 times over a 24-hour period. Starring opposite her are 100 different men, queer and non-binary people drawn from the local community. In each scene the two performers meet on the stage for the first time.
The scene, which lasts about 10 minutes, involves a woman and her partner in a relationship that has lost its creativity, romance and vitality. A man enters. We know as little about him as the performer does. The intense and intimate exchange between her and the participant culminates in a final choice: ‘I love you’ or ‘I never loved you.’
The set design and live images draw inspiration from American independent cinema of the 1970s and a history of women's melodrama, as a genre portraying women in a stereotypical way. On-stage sparks fly, lines between fiction and reality blur, and the sense of elation and anxiety is palpable.
The Second Woman will take place simultaneously as a performance on stage and a live screening at Pathé Tuschinski.
Practical questions about your visit to The Second Woman? Check the FAQ.
dates
24-hour performance, 28 June 4 pm until 29 June 4 pm, check the FAQ
prices
- default from € 45
- CJP/student/scholar from € 25
information
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English, Dutch
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24 hours (met meerdere pauzes)
‘A hundred performers playing a man all serve up a different image of masculinity’
interview with Anna Breckon and Nat Randall about The Second Woman
by Dana Linssen
Georgina Verbaan plays the leading role in the theatrical marathon The Second Woman. Over the course of twenty-four hours, she will play the same ten-minute love scene with a hundred different male counterparts. Australian theatre makers Anna Breckon and Nat Randall staged this mix of performance and video art before: ‘But with a livestream to the Tuschinski theatre, we’re adding a 24-hour live film to this.’