Kees and Coos and Arie are in trouble again. Every season it’s the same problem – whether they are trying to drag the moon out of the pond, or build a wall round the cuckoo, or boil up lead to mend the leak in the tap of their beer barrel, sooner or later they come up against Reality, in the shape of The Policeman, who insists that in the Everlasting Circle of Life, there is a law against everything.
“The Everlasting Circle” is a presentation of the changing seasons loosely based on legends from the Colne Valley in Yorkshire, England. Aperitivo Performance Group has mounted another beautifully presented piece of theatre, interspersed with a wide-ranging choice of songs from folk to Mozart.
The action of “The Everlasting Circle” is not limited to the three Dutch peasants, just as the mythology is not limited to one Yorkshire valley. Also romping across the stage are three Scandinavian Norns, a Japanese Crane Wife, a band of Celtic Druids, a Chorus of multilingual singers, a Lord with a shotgun and John Barleycorn the patron saint of beer – to say nothing of Brünnhilde Freud, a psychoanalyst of operatic proportions.
Photo: Erik van Lint, Otto Linden and Constant van Scherpenseel play the three Dutch peasants in Aperitivo’s “The Everlasting Circle”
Performances:
Thursday December 5 and Friday December 6 at the Museum in São Brás, at 8pm
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Saturday December 7 at the Casa do Povo, Moncarapacho, at 8pm
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Aperitivo website: aperitivoperformancegroup.net
