Wildpark (8+)

“I think it's all not too bad. Mean, no, it wasn't super handy of me, okay I admit, but it's too late. That's English. Means there are two sides to every story. So it just depends on how you look at it. Yes! I did something bad, but just to be clear, I didn't do that for nothing. No, action reaction. Mean, it's nice and easy to make me the bogeyman now. But who actually started here?”

Something has happened. Anne has done something bad. Now her friend is in the hospital and Anne has to apologize to her mother. Being a team with your bestie is of course the coolest thing there is. Until you become disappointed in the other person. Whether you feel betrayed. Or the other way around. Until you grow apart. Until you find yourself diametrically opposed to each other, because your bestie suddenly turns out to be different from you and suddenly seems to think very differently about things. Until one day you become so angry that you do something that you cannot take back. Not on purpose, it justhappens.  How small cracks can grow into a fissure. How you sometimes end up opposing each other without knowing exactly why.

In our preparatory conversations with children, without exception they appeared to find friendship complicated. In their lives there is a constant question of who is chosen, invited, confirmed, recognized and legitimized. Who belongs, who is listened to? They are constantly concerned with who is doing what to whom.

They feel strong with a friend by their side and vulnerable when that is not the case. A vulnerability that should not be shown. But it remains a precarious balance.

Anne, 11 years old, says sorry anyway is a real-life performance about polarization at a micro level. About clashes, misunderstandings and the moments when you no longer know how to get together. About friendship and about saying sorry and that that is quite difficult.

After the successful 'Anne, 10 years old, would like to be picked up'and 'Anne, 12 years old, will be a great success'this is the third in the Anne trilogy made by Annemiek Nienhuis and played by Anne van der Steen