TWELVE
" Interactive insight into the expectant lives of twelve-year-olds"
(Theaterkrant)
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"Despite the spicy theme, a surprisingly light performance"
(Leidsch Dagblad )
TWELVE
A theatrical documentary about the transition from primary school to secondary school
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And then you're in group 8 and you're getting ready for the step of your life: in a few months you're going to secondary school. Suddenly your whole life seems to be about the future. You take tests to determine your school recommendation, you have to choose a secondary school where you feel at home and you say goodbye to everything that was so familiar.
In recent months, theater makers Rian Evers and Brecht Hermans followed four families, one of whose children made the step from primary school to secondary school. From the CITO test to school advice and from the final musical to the first steps in secondary school. In TWALF they report on this special period.
TWALF is a theatrical documentary in which the transition from primary school to secondary school is examined and examined from the perspective of the child, the parent and the teacher.
Play dates
Wed 8 & Thu 9 Nov, 8pm
Fri 10 & Sat 11 Nov, 8.45pm
Sun Nov 12, 3pm
On Fri 10 and Sat 11 Nov you can also visit the ACHT performance prior to TWALVE
Ticket sales
Tickets cost $10.00.
PS|theater donates 2.50 of this to Stichting Leergeld Leiden and surrounding areas
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Credits
Research, concept and game: Rian Evers and Brecht Hermans
Dramaturgy: Erica Smits
Final direction: Tijs Huys
Creative producer: Marijn Maurits
Advice: Pepijn Smit
Music: Ralf Gerritse
Image: Anna June
With thanks to: Jannie, Esther, Zuva, Diza, Katya, Shadi, William, Wadea, Esther, Isa and Finn, Jelka, Ianthe, Patrick, Stine, Gioia
WE, THE CITY
TWALF is part of a triptych about opportunities in education. After TWELVE follow SIXTEEN and TWENTY-ONE.
This triptych is part of WE, THE CITY. A multi-year study that culminates in theatrical projects about inequality of opportunity and equality. In the coming years, the theater makers of city company PS|theater will investigate the gap between the underprivileged and the promising. Together with various groups from Leiden and the surrounding municipalities, we map out inequality. We tell these stories in theater performances, podcasts, music and games and present them in the region and far beyond.
