“Zomaar Een Straat\u201d, which translates to \u201cJust a Street\u201d, is a performance based on personal stories about life in financial poverty and debt. Seven residents of a nameless street struggle, without knowing each other\u2019s troubles, with mounting bills, shame and guilt. Zomaar Een Straat is a performance about missing out or not having enough, and passing on stories from generation to generation about the importance of opening up discussions on the topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One in seven Dutch people admits to being ashamed of their financial situation. Unfortunately, financial poverty, debt and inequality in opportunities are a very present problem in Rotterdam. Zomaar Een Straat is the first in a series of performances produced by Rotterdams Wijktheater (RWT) that deal with these subjects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
About<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Rotterdams Wijktheater (Rotterdam Community Theatre) was founded in 1992. It is a theatre company that, supported by Rotterdam City Council, produces theatre for, by, and with people from the community. The main aim of this community arts organisation is to develop original theatre that is accessible, appealing and relevant to non-theatre goers. In order to attract new and culturally excluded audiences RWT presents theatre performances that are based on the stories of their own community, dealing with issues that are relevant to those groups. To date, RWT has created well over 50 original shows, which tour to different neighbourhoods in Rotterdam. On average, the company performs sixty times per year, mostly in schools and community centers, and occasionally in regular theatre venues. Annually, their performances reach anywhere between 3,000 and 5,000 spectators from all age groups and cultural backgrounds, of which there are many in cosmopolitan Rotterdam. The Rotterdam Community Theatre is living proof that theatre by, for, and with people from the popular neighbourhoods can be alive, interesting, moving, entertaining, and of high artistic quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Since its founding in 1992, Rotterdams Wijktheater (Rotterdam Community Theatre, RWT) has been producing theatre made for and by people with no previous experience. RWT achieves this by creating work that connects closely with the experiences of the audiences they want to reach out to. RWT also organises the International Community Arts Festival (ICAF) every three years.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
RWT uses the following proven and effective methods for their work:\u00a0
\u25cf Productions are made in close collaboration with the actors, all of whom are from local Rotterdam communities.\u00a0
\u25cf Local residences put their experiences on stage under the guidance of professional writers and directors.\u00a0
\u25cf These personal experiences relate to subjects that will be familiar to audiences: domestic or local tensions, the search for a cultural identity, friendship, ageing, and so forth.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every year, dozens of local members of the community step onto the stage for the first time in their lives. For many, this is a life-changing experience. RWT performs between 70 and 80 times annually, for a total audience of around 10,000 people. In turn, these audiences often produce new generations of RWT actors.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
RWT makes theatre aimed at specific target audiences, previously examples have included young people, women who are unable to leave the house in the evening, and the elderly. RWT sometimes collaborate with welfare organisations to produce educationally oriented performances that focus on subjects such as domestic violence, teenage motherhood, female circumcision and the relationship between young people and the police. Every two years RWT produces a large-scale site-specific work. This involves working for a period of eighteen months in the selected neighbourhood with large numbers of locals. In the past they have done this in the Heijplaat and Katendrecht neighbourhoods of Rotterdam.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Rotterdams Wijktheater","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"rotterdams-wijktheater","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-12-05 09:51:56","post_modified_gmt":"2024-12-05 08:51:56","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/makers\/rotterdams-wijktheater\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"maker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"edition":15,"makers_involved":[2637],"also_interesting":[196]},"programmes":{"2023040120230401":{"19:00:0020:00:00":[{"id":424,"title":"Zomaar Een Straat [\"Just A Street\"]","type":"productions","production_count":1,"start_date":"20230401","date":[{"day_name":"Sat","day":"01","month":"April","month_abbrev":"Apr","year":"2023","timestamp":"2023-04-01"}],"time":"19:00 - 20:00"}]}},"days":["20230401"],"makers":{"2637":"Rotterdams Wijktheater"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/productions\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/productions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/production"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/productions\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/productions\/193\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/editions?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"festival_production_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/festival_production_types?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}