Teatro Olimpico

Hein and Kees make experimental theatre in The Hague. When Italian colleagues ask them to bring their Rousseau piece to a festival in Vicenza, staged in Palladio's celebrated Teatro Olimpico, they leap at it, though the deadline is close and the budget non-existent. Getting the unwieldy scenery across the Alps is only the start. Italian producers, actors and sponsors baffle them, they pitch a tent at a camping site to cut costs, accept small roles in a film that proves pornographic, and watch their script being turned inside out. Kees recounts everything later, in a report to the arts fund.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

221 pages in the original

Genres

Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Netherlands, Italy

First published

2014 by Querido

Author's age

70 when first published

ISBN

9789021455990 (original)