Survival, objecttheatre by TAMTAM
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:09:45 -0800 by TAMTAMtheater

Survival, or how to survive Murphy's law is an objecttheatre performance by TAMTAM objektentheater from The Netherlands. It is a wordles visual black comedy performed with found objects on a sandtable by two visible players. This play was made together with dutch writer, poet and painter Wim HofmanTAMTAM connect theatre to visual art and add a very important and custom composed soundtrack to the images, but no text. Although you can see the images and hear the music this video is nowhere near teh experience audience has in the theatre where they really believe that the main character K. is alive. This video shows half of the videocompilation that is being made right now, just to show you some of the atmosphere and images. In this first part of the performance Murphy's law is only slightly starting to have its impact on poor K. But if you know that Kafka's The Process was an important inspiration, and if you know Murphy's law (the worst things will happen on the worst possible moments) you can imagine how bad it will get in the end...Hope to meet you on the tour that will celebrate TAMTAM's 30th anniversary in 2009!Check www.tamtamtheater.nl for pictures, text reviews and more about this performance and the company Also have a look at the interview in the fake movietrailer on the TAMTAMtheater channel.

Related: theatre theater objecttheatre objektentheater visual art beeldende kunst murphy's law tamtam tamtam uitvoerende trailer

To Have Or Not To Have by TAMTAM objektentheater
Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:00:00 -0700 by TAMTAMtheater

a visual theatre performance by TAMTAM objektentehater from Holland.It is a rusty fairytale full of beautiful images with undeniable elements of the spaghetti-western, a shot of Shakespeare and a generous dose of sutle humor. The wild west combined with the dark middle-ages. A beautiful rusty fairytale mixed with elements of the spaghetti western, a dash of Shakespeare and a generous dose of subtle humor.With themes like: greed, jealousy, recklessness, egotism, stupidity and other very human qualities.Supported by a hypnotizing soundtrack with influences from Texas to Turkey . Without text so that everyone can understand it. The actors in this piece are old rusty metal and weather-beaten wooden objects. Materials that also figure in the visual art of Gérard Schiphorst and Marije van der Sande. The beginning of the performance is like a dreamy fairytale with an almost prehistoric world on the long sandtable. The introduction of an alien object causes the story to degenerate in a ruthless but hilarious medieval arms-race. A duel between an impertinent pair of pliers and a tenacious mole trap, fought with all lawful and illegal means.

Related: visual-art objecttheatre objektentheater tamtam tamtam visual theatre beeldend theater puppetry performance shakespeare

SURVIVAL by TAMTAM, interview with K.
Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:28:06 -0700 by TAMTAMtheater

funny filmtrailer parody for the objecttheatre performance "Survival or how to survive Murphy's law", with a fake interview of the main character of this wordless visual objecttheatre performance.It shows images of the 60 minute theatreshow in which two visible performers manipulate objects to a soundtrack as if it were an animation movie. It is a poetic but black comedy co-produced with famous Dutch writer Wim Hofman.Music by Gérard Schiphorst, performed by Marije van der Sande and Gérard Schiphorst. They founded the Dutch visual-theatrecompan y TAMTAM in 1979 and have been touring internationally with different visual showscheck www.tamtamtheater.nl See also the other trailer on the tTAMTAMtheater channel.

Related: parody objecttheatre objektentheater tamtam tamtam murphy's law visual theatre beeldend theater puppetry humour comedy

TAMTAM Survival, setting up the stage
Tue, 20 May 2008 10:42:00 -0700 by TAMTAMtheater

Time lapse video of the set up of theaterperformance "Survival or how to survive Murphy's law" by 'TAMTAM objektentheater'a visual theatre company from the Netherlands .The set is specialy designed to stage this objecttheatre piece. It is technically autonomous and can be set up in non-theatre environments like special festival locations in for instance old industrial buildings, museums, schools and so on.All the lighting and sound is controlled on stage by the performers using specialized equipment. There are also some minature special effects on stage that are not shown here: come and see the show...! The set up takes about 3 to 4 hours depending on the room.This clip is shot in theatre De Toneelschuur in Haarlem Holland. It is filmed and edited by Floor Schiphorst

Related: tamtam objektentheater objecttheatre stagedesign set stage decor theatre theater time-lapse festival survival