Poor Thing
Music theatre with melancholic lute songs and a magical piece of furniture
VOX Muziektheater, Linde Schinkel & Martine van Ditzhuyzen
Lifelong living. A cabinet full of stuff. As Dowland’s wistful 17th-century lute songs are heard, a magical writing desk decides that it is story time. About objects from the past, memories of happy and not-so-happy moments, about beauty and transience, consolation and grief. The cabinet slowly unfolds as captivating still lifes pop up. Yet, everything perishes in the end. Even a cabinet full of stuff.