Harlekino - Troupe Courage

Theater en toneel

Katrien van Beurden raced around the world for 25 years making theater with a suitcase full of commedia masks. Until she suddenly has to lie still. Having just become a mother, with cancer in her breast, she listens to the monotonous beeping of the MRI and wonders: “How do you actually do that, lie still?”

A kaleidoscopic journey unfolds there, past all the racial survivors, the harlekinos, she met, back to Kaatje. The eight-year-old girl who, singing loudly, fills her deceased brother's coffin with toys. In a house drowning in sadness and anger, she discovers early on that play and imagination are her truest allies.

Harlekino is a wild, comical and poetic solo. A performance that bursts with energy and raw emotion. Katrien balances between reality and imagination. With her masks and specially composed music by Remy van Kesteren, she creates a cinematic storm of stories.

She takes on the role of Harlekino, the iconic trickster, whose spirit has been her fascination and driving force for years. He teaches us that hope is not something to believe, but something to do.

The media about Harlekino
"Play and imagination are Van Beurden's superpower."