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QUATTRO IDILLI

October 2, 2021 11:09 am Published by Comments Off on QUATTRO IDILLI A trilingual edition of Idyll 1, Idyll 4, Idyll 61 (The old words of a time that is still yet to come) and Idyll 70 (Gongula), with the Dutch original,...

SONNETS 2020

February 7, 2021 1:33 pm Published by Comments Off on SONNETS 2020 Since 1 January 2018, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer has been writing a sonnet about the news for the newspaper every other week. These columns in poetry form are printed every other...

QUARANTAINE

September 12, 2020 3:24 pm Published by Leave your thoughts In the spring of 2020, the world fell prey to a pandemic due to the Sars-CoV-2 virus. Northern Italy was among the hardest hit areas in the world. Ilja Leonard...

THE MANY-VOICED MAN

March 31, 2020 4:16 pm Published by Comments Off on THE MANY-VOICED MAN Since 2007, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer has delivered a stage text almost every year. This has resulted in full-length work such as Malpensa, Blueprint for an Even Better Life, The Lawyer,...

SONNETS 2019

March 15, 2020 5:49 pm Published by Leave your thoughts Since 1 January 2018, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer has been writing a sonnet about the news for the newspaper every other week. These columns in poetry form are printed every other...

THE PROSECUTRIX

March 4, 2020 4:29 pm Published by Leave your thoughts In the Western theater repertoire there are hardly any female roles that can compare to classic male protagonists like Hamlet, Oedipus or Uncle Wanja. Zuidpool is changing that and is...

UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS

September 25, 2019 3:04 pm Published by Leave your thoughts “What doubt is for science,” wrote the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), “that is irony for personal life.” But in the social debate, irony soon leads to indifference. And Kierkegaard...

SONNETS 2018

May 8, 2019 10:47 am Published by Leave your thoughts Since 1 January 2018, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer has been writing a sonnet about the news for the newspaper every other week. These columns in poetry form are printed every other...

JUST CALL IT LOVE

March 10, 2019 12:22 pm Published by Leave your thoughts The bitter, touching comedy Just Call It Love stages a relay of encounters in the famous Majestic Imperial Hotel, where hundreds of rooms have room for loneliness. The play follows...