A View From Nowhere

Four characters step onto the grass of a golf course. They don’t know each other personally, but all four are members of the Association Against Doubt. They’ve come there with a single goal: to record universal ideas about the world, thereby finally banishing doubt. Reluctantly, they begin to think, talk, stutter, and play golf. No one gets anywhere—not in thinking, not in talking, and not in playing golf—perhaps in stuttering. Yes, perhaps in stuttering.

In this musical and philosophical performance, the tension between the desire for certainty and the failure of speech is explored in a one-and-a-half-hour composition by Annelinde Bruijs. Following the success of Ground Floor at Orkater, A View From Nowhere marks the second collaboration between composer Annelinde Bruijs, writer Maartje Wortel, and director Suze Milius. With this work, they continue their musical exploration of the verbatim musical, in which spoken language forms the basis for a new libretto.

A View From Nowhere is a co-production of Studio Bruijs, Orkater, URLAND, Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot, and DeSingel (Antwerp).

URLANDer Marijn is responsible for the lighting design, and URLANDer Jimi for the sound design.

About the Creators

Annelinde Bruijs is a composer, singer, and actress, and runs her own company, Studio Bruijs. She previously created Portretten in Concert with Orkater and appeared in Merkel, among other productions. She is also studying philosophy at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Suze Milius is a director in the Netherlands and Belgium, working with companies such as Toneelhuis, Zuidelijk Toneel, and Orkater. At Orkater, she directed De familie Mansøn, among other productions. Marijn Alexander de Jong is a member of the performance collective URLAND and also works as a set designer. Maartje Wortel is a novelist and columnist (for publications including Trouw, Metropolis M, and NRC), and has written several award-winning books such as Camping, IJstijd, and De Groef. Driven by a shared love of collaborative work and musical exploration, they are joining forces once again following Ground Floor.