Five years after the original URLAUB, URLAND revises this Italo-Disco-recreation-horror and comes to the realization that it’s gotten worse: URLAUB Revisited. How can we let go, if there is nothing left to hold on to?
Welcome to the age of the mental pandemic, omnipresent pressure, increasing insecurities and even MORE burnouts (missed it? Impossible!). The exhausted society is over-stimulated and hyperactive. The homo economicus markets himself and quietly weeps bitter Prozac tears. We work under voluntary compulsion and relax in compulsive freedom. Mindfulness becomes restlessness.
Too much truth, too much untruth, too many expectations, too much data, too much access, too many friends….
TRANQUILO. WE NEED TO TAKE A BREAK. SEDATE US. WE NEED VACATION FROM VACATION.
URLAND disconnects and sets out to look for the meaning of Nothingness.
Credits
Concept and performance
Ludwig Bindervoet, Thomas Dudkiewicz, Marijn Alexander de Jong en Jimi Zoet
Technical support
Denzo Theatertechniek
Production leaders
Andrea van Bussel en Elise de Fooij
PR & marketing
Pien Visser
Graphic design
Ruben Verkuylen
Business management
Martha van Meegen
Business assistant
Denise de Hoog
Production
URLAND
Special thanks to
Made possible by Gemeente Rotterdam and Fonds Podiumkunsten.
Reviews
"URLAND duikt in het moeras van het nihilisme waar de Europese millenial in wegzakt. [...] Met ironiserende, vormelijke scènes, catchy muziek met lege lyrics en uit de context gerukte instantfilosofie onderzoekt URLAND de consequenties van het hedendaags nihilisme"
Het Parool (Sander Janssens) over URLAUB 2019
Agenda
8 October 2025 20:15 Try-out
Theater Rotterdam. Rotterdam
9 October 2025 20:15 Premiere
Theater Rotterdam. Rotterdam
13 October 2025 20:00
Theater de Maagd. Bergen op Zoom
17 October 2025 20:00
MIMIK. Deventer
11 November 2025 20:00
Theater Kikker. Utrecht
12 November 2025 20:00
Theater Kikker. Utrecht
20 November 2025 20:30
LUX. Nijmegen
3 December 2025 20:30
Schuur. Haarlem
4 December 2025 20:15
Het National Theater. Den Haag
6 December 2025 20:15
Schouwburg Leiden. Leiden
11 December 2025 20:00
Theater aan de Rijn. Arnhem