![]() ![]() They have a reputation of rebelliousness and change. ![]() On my way to the church, two great crested grebes resting at their usual place between the pond-lily leaves, close together.īefore the play started, there was a lecture by sociologist Kees Schuyt on the historical significance of the 1960s. Nelleke Noordervliet, who played the female lead character Nele both forty years ago and now, is now a well known author. Played by most of the original cast, all forty years older. This time, forty years later, it was inside the Pieterskerk. The play then was on for ten nights in a row with a thousands spectators each night, so 10.000 in total. Hugo Claus’ Tijl’s first show was as an open air play in 1965 in Leiden, on the Gerecht square surrounded by medieval and sixteenth century buildings including the Pieterskerk (St. Tijl, an intelligent fun loving jester, goes around the Low Countries joking, poking fun at princes and bishops, and fomenting rebellion together with his wife Nele and his buddy Lamme Goedzak. The main character, Tijl Uilenspiegel from Damme town in Flanders, becomes a rebel after the Spanish Inquisition burns his father at the stake. Its subject is the uprising in the sixteenth century in the Low Countries against the Habsburg monarchy and the Inquisition. Its author, Flemish Hugo Claus, won many literary prizes in Belgium and The Netherlands. Tonight, there was the theatre play “ Tijl Uilenspiegel“. From the Google cache of Dear Kitty ModBlog: ![]()
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