A musical for toddlers about childish grown-up men
What do a toddler and your average world leader have in common? Are there presidents who might also be throwing fits in the middle of supermarket isles? Or scream furiously until they get what they want? If you were to squint your eyes and look at a speeching toddler and an adult man in a suit talking nonsense sitting next to each other, you may hardly even see the difference. Of course, one of them has a say in everything while the other has to do everything they’re being told.
BullyBully gives the audience Duplo-level insight into the collision of two world-powers that, eventually, learn to meet in the middle; politics at the kindergarten and childishness amongst serious and powerful grown-ups. This is a toddler’s musical the likes of West Side Story that presents us with two performers, many songs, funny quarrels, a bit of bickering and, eventually, a happy ending.
About the creator:
BullyBully is the long awaited follow-up to Wanted: Bunny, PetPet and Get’m, three performances for toddlers from René Geerlings who has managed to get thousands of toddlers and parents on the edge of their seats. Geerlings graduated from Theater School Amsterdam in 1999, mime training, and has since worked as an actor, teacher, director and artistic director. Since 1 January 2021, he has been the artistic director of Maas theater en dans.
Concept & direction: René Geerlings
Performance: Sue-Ann Bel, Henke Tuinstra
Compositions: Reinier van Harten, Sergio Escoda
Costumes: Daphne Karsten
Costume assistent: Alice Sprascio, Karmijn Lange
Campagne image: Jaap Scheeren
Photography: Kamerich & Budwilowitz
Wigs: Cynthia van der Linden
Mustaches: Stan Roobol
Set: Sanne Danz
Set busts: Jannelies Raaijmaker
Coupeur: Stef Krull
Dramaturgy, direction assistent: Sara Giampaolo
Dance advice: Art Srisayam, Erik Bos
Technics: Peter Raaijmakers, Frans Baudoin
Production: Djoeke Westdijk
Coproduction: Maas theater en dans, Atta Festival (Istanbul)
Video: Huub Laurens
Concept & direction: René Geerlings
Performance: Sue-Ann Bel, Henke Tuinstra
Compositions: Reinier van Harten, Sergio Escoda
Costumes: Daphne Karsten
Costume assistent: Alice Sprascio, Karmijn Lange
Campagne image: Jaap Scheeren
Photography: Kamerich & Budwilowitz
Wigs: Cynthia van der Linden
Mustaches: Stan Roobol
Set: Sanne Danz
Set busts: Jannelies Raaijmaker
Coupeur: Stef Krull
Dramaturgy, direction assistent: Sara Giampaolo
Dance advice: Art Srisayam, Erik Bos
Technics: Peter Raaijmakers, Frans Baudoin
Production: Djoeke Westdijk
Coproduction: Maas theater en dans, Atta Festival (Istanbul)
Video: Huub Laurens