For the R.J.S.O. 2004 Christmas Concert they teamed up with Benne to bring ‘Scrooge’, a musical re-telling of this iconic story by merging pieces of classical music with spoken word. Words Benne wrote and performed on this very occasion.
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While studying Writing for Performance at the Vocational University of Utrecht (HKU) in 2002 and 2003 Benne enjoyed one of his theater scenes being table-read on stage at the Perdu theater in Amsterdam by professional actors, and
this love for theater started with him being a cast member in three amateur plays by Acting Group Varia between 1990 and 1993.
in 2000 the Villa Music venue hosted the Rock Opera ‘Friday the 13th’, for which Benne helped to write the voice-over. He also performed/recorded said text for the occasion. The show would go on and get played at the Maasboulvardfestival in the neighboring city of Schiedam later that year as well.
‘De gemaskerde ridder’ (The Masked Knight): a spectacle play complete with real choreographed sword fights, men in heavy plate armor and more great stuff like that, which Benne co-wrote with Hiekelien van den Herik (R.I.P.)
Theater-/enactment group Ridderspoor performed said play in 2004 and 2005 at Het Archeon, during De Kasteeldagen and at an Elfia-fantasyfair.
In 2001 Benne published an short play in Prado’s theater issue.
“In 1985, as a tribute to the 'journal for texts' Barbarber by G. Brands, K. Schippers, and J. Bernlef, which had ceased publication in 1972, Willem Bierman founded the literary magazine Prado. Dadaism, a cultural movement with which he has a strong affinity, served as the starting point. Attention was paid to the over-accepted, through snippets of conversation, shopping lists, and newspaper clippings. Some of the contributors were Jan G. Elburg, Sylvia Hubers, Hanz Mirck, Hans Renders, and A.L. Snijders. The magazine ceased publication in 2015.”
Source: wikipedia
