Een groter verhaal - Bureau Vergezicht | Theater Rotterdam

In the new show by Bureau Vergezicht & Romana Vrede, two subjects come together that do not obviously seem to belong together: the climate crisis and our colonial past. And that stirs things up. Because if you want to learn about the climate crisis, you don’t go to a slavery museum. But what if it is actually a bigger story ? The exploitation of people, animals, land and air is as old as humanity itself, but colonialism scaled that exploitation up, and that scale is what we now call the climate crisis. So we have replaced the word, but not the system, which lives on. We treat the earth like a supermarket, animals have fewer rights than cruise ships, and Mars is the tech bros’ new colonial project.

After the award-winning shows De zaak Shell, Beste Mensen and Een stukje naar de mensen toe , Bureau Vergezicht and Romana Vrede go in search of the answer to the question: how do you stay engaged in dark times? To do so, they look not only ahead, but also back to the moment when everything still seemed possible. For Romana, that was the eighties. The music of Bob Marley and the Eurythmics. Sunday afternoons on the sofa. Drawing on her personal memories and ’80s classics, she takes you into a bigger story. About how we shaped the earth, and how in the end it shaped us. 

Een Groter Verhaal is funny, imaginative and rich in language. A declaration of love to the world and a search for how to stay engaged.

Romana Vrede in Een Groter Verhaal: “Remember the old days? You’d go on a day out, to the cheese market in Alkmaar, say. And my mother always used to say: if you lose me, go back to the moment you last saw me. And I think that’s what we’re all collectively doing, with our longing for the past. Searching our way back to the moment before we got lost.”

What the press say about Bureau Vergezicht and Romana Vrede
“A magical little gift.” (★★★★ NRC on Een stukje naar de mensen toe)
“As beautiful as it is sad.” (★★★★ NRC on Beste Mensen)
“A big, loaded subject made accessible.” (★★★★★ de Volkskrant on De zaak Shell)
"Romana Vrede knows how to touch and move you" (★★★★★ NRC on Tijd zal ons leren)