Frank Groothof
1947 (77 лет)De Thuiskomst van Odysseus
Jan Keja
Frank Groothof, Mariët Overdiep
Frank Groothof tells and sings the story of Ulysses' homecoming. He is accompanied musically by the saxphone ensemble Sax et Plus. The Dutch peninsula of Schiermonnikoog forms the backdrop for the story, in which Groothof himself plays almost all carachters.
The Homecoming of Ulysses
De Blauwe Bus
Sanne Kortooms
Frank Groothof, Xander van Vledder
Detective Wikkobus suffers from 'the blues'. After fifty-five years of letting other people dictate his life, without having taken any initiative, only hanging around the blues café, drinking whiskey and searching for things that don't matter anyway, he has had enough of it. Wikkobus decides to go and find himself because, as he knows: 'Hell is what you make of it.'
The Blue Bus
Toestanden
Thijs Chanowski
Joop Admiraal, Yolande Bertsch
"Conditions" - The improvisation-based performance was inspired by psychiatrists such as RD Laing (Family and Madness) and J. Foudraine (Who is of wood). The Werkteater played this performance 'in the den of the lion': in psychiatric institutions for patients and carers. This led to very intensive and adventurous performances in which 'a lot' always happened. Afterwards the discussions sometimes ran high, but even during the performance the audience sometimes mixed themselves in the scenes.
Toestanden
Het Verhaal van Kees
André van Duren
Herman Veerkamp, Herman Finkers
This TV-film is based on a single play written by Willem Wilmink. Life in the war years through the innocent eyes of a child. Kees is ten years old and the Second World War seems strange to him. He becomes sick with fear and is sent to the countryside where life is even stranger, but at least he gets to eat.
The Story of Kees
Een zwoele zomeravond
Frans Weisz, Shireen Strooker
Marja Kok, Helmert Woudenberg
A husband, half of an entertainment duo, the Nellicos, tells his wife, who is the other half of the duo, that he has another woman. But they cannot discuss this as he tells her only just before they are due to perform in front of a large audience. (BFI)
A Hot Summer Night
De Schoorsteenveger
Ron Termaat
Manouk van der Meulen, Frank Groothof
A chimney sweep’s daredevil antics are meant to keep a young woman from jumping off the roof. But does she really want to jump? Or does he maybe? A street sweeper is watching and passes the hat round for our hero. Or is he part of the act too?
De Schoorsteenveger
Kees de Jongen
Aike Dirkzwager, Frank Groothof
Frank Groothof, Kiki Heessels
This is a stage registration of the musical theatre play 'Kees de Jongen' by Dutch actor Frank Groothof and the Avant-garde music band De Kift. The play is based on the novel with the same title by Theo Thijssen about the rich imagination of an ordinary boy from Amsterdam at the turn of the century.
Kees de Jongen
Gebroed
Jop Pannekoek, Michiel Berkel
Frank Groothof, René Groothof
Television recording of the theatre play 'Gebroed' by the Werkteater from 1983. The play, written and performed by Frank and René Groothof, is about their childhood together, their relationship to each other and to their parents, their conflicts, but also their shared love for theater and music.
Gebroed
