is a director, author, producer, actor and performer. He is the chairman and artistic director of the "Connecting Perceptions" association for theatre and performance. Since August 2022, he is studying directing (BA) at the Toneelacademie in Maastricht (NL).
collaborations with "Het Laagland" and Nick Steur, stay tuned...
"scènes uit een huwelijk, scène 1"
Ingmar Bergmans "Scenes from a marriage" from 1973 is a story about a couple who grapples with their relationship as it disintegrates. The prospect of facing their end forces them to confront
their history, their partnership, and themselves as they try to disentangle from the fraying identity that they have built together.
More than 50 years later, we are living in a time of many different possibilities when it comes to relationship-concepts. Therapy and knowledge about good communication became a lot more
accessible, emotional literacy is higher - especially in younger demographics, and relationships are more and more tailor-made to the specific needs of individuals. This is the time, in which
Juri Zanger places Marianne, the main character from "Scenes from a marriage". She looks back into her past in which she still was together with Johan, the other main character from the play. In
her mind, she examines in a reenactment the first scene of the play, questioning her relationship back then. She asks herself in what ways she could have had agency to make different choices or
communicate better had she known then what she knows now about herself, her dreams, boundaries and needs, and him. And she also has to face where she may have been powerless, living in a much
more patriarchal world, confronted by a husband who finds it difficult to share with vulnerability about his perspective, his emotions and his dreams or boundaries.
director
Juri Zanger
dramaturgy and ass. director Merel Snoeks
directional
advice
Lynn Schutter
actors & actresses
Jonnah
Lee Goldberg, Emilio Pramatarov,
Josephine Arendsen, Rover Wouters
presentations
february 27th, 2025, 02:00pm at Toneelacademie Maastricht
"my childhood is a city on fire"
This performance is about a psychological mechanism in children who had to take on more responsibility than they could carry in their childhood: They often get the feeling that they are guilty, that they couldn’t help their parents or themselves well enough, when in reality they may just have been powerless. To them, it seems to be easier to accept their guilt, because then at least they had some kind of control over the situation.
co-creator
Juri Zanger, Anne Chris van Doesburg
director, concept, light, stage Juri Zanger
music, costume Anne Chris van Doesburg
directional
advice
Lotte Milder, Karlijn Milder
performers
Anne Chris van Doesburg, Valerie Ludwig
operasingers Dimitris Christoforou, Nora Tarraf
helping hands Jodie Cranen, Zippora Peters, Bik
presentations
december 13th, 2024, at Toneelacademie Maastricht