Harlekino - Troupe Courage

Name: Harlekino - Troupe Courage - Wonkapodia
Start: 2026-11-12T20:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-10-23T21:32:58+02:00
Location: Parktheater Eindhoven

Theater en toneel

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

What unfolds is a kaleidoscopic journey past all the born survivors – the harlekinos – she has met, back to Kaatje. The eight-year-old girl who, singing at the top of her voice, stuffs her late little brother’s coffin full of toys. In a house drowning in grief and anger, she discovers early on that play and imagination are her most faithful allies.

Harlekino is a wild, comic and poetic solo. A show bursting 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 gets under the skin 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 in, but something to do.

What the media say about Harlekino
"Play and imagination are Van Beurden’s superpower." (Theaterkrant)
"In Harlekino, Katrien van Beurden shows how playing can be a survival mechanism." (de Volkskrant)
"A small show in form, but big in energy, imagination and humanity." (Ilovetheatre.nl)