Harlekino
After 25 years of traveling the world wearing masks, Katrien van Beurden suddenly falls silent. Having just become a mother, with cancer in her breast, she wonders: how do you actually do that, lying still? That is where a kaleidoscopic journey begins, past all the harlequins she met, back to Kaatje. A wild, comical, poetic solo about survival.
Katrien van Beurden balances between reality and imagination, creating a cinematic storm of stories with her masks and specially composed music by Remy van Kesteren. She slips into the skin of Harlekino, the iconic trickster, whose mind has been her long-standing fascination. Harlekino is an ode to life and death, to our brilliantly successful and hopelessly failed attempts to survive.
“In Harlekino, Katrien van Beurden shows how play can be a survival mechanism” ★★★★
