RULE™

RULE™ is a border crossing game about hospitality, which is played by the audience. It’s a game full of world problems in a tangible format:  it adresses well known political issues, but it also blurs personal borders. When do you allow a stranger in your house? How do you act when your guests change your rules? And how do you act as a translator at the Immigration Department?

RULE™ is a playground of ideas, a miniature society, a playful and dramatic platform in which the ideas of the majority count.

During Festival CEMENT (April 2013) in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the concept of  RULE™ won the Dioraphte Encouragement Prize. From the jury report: “Emke has the key to making a new theatre form. (…) Her political and philosophical game will affect all of us, since it is about inclusion and exclusion.”

RULE™ is the second in a series of theatrical games, after  STRANGER.

TOUR

PLANNED:

PAST:

25/05/2017

RULE™ | Frascati Theater, Amsterdam (NL)

01/11/2015

RULE™ | Spielart, Munchen (DE)

29/10/2015 -
30/10/2015

RULE™ | Kaaitheater, Brussel (BE)

06/10/2015 -
07/10/2015

RULE™ | MESS Festival, Sarajevo (BA)

24/08/2015 -
26/08/2015

RULE™ | Metropolis Festival, Kopenhagen (DK)

05/08/2015 -
07/08/2015

RULE™ | Theater aan Zee, Oostende (BE)

08/06/2015 -
09/06/2015

RULE™ | Hebbel-am-Ufer Theater, Berlijn (DE)

04/06/2015 -
05/06/2015

RULE™ | Festival Premières, Karlsruhe (DE)

23/01/2015 -
24/01/2015

RULE™ | Frascati Theater, Amsterdam (NL)

16/01/2015

RULE™ | Corrosia, Almere (NL)

11/12/2014

RULE™ | Verkadefabriek, ’s Hertogenbosch (NL)

28/11/2014 -
30/11/2014

RULE™ | Fast Forward Festival, Braunschweig (DE)

24/11/2014 -
25/11/2014

RULE™ | Jonge Harten Festival, Groningen (NL)

22/11/2014

RULE™ | Theater Kikker, Utrecht (NL)

19/11/2014 -
20/11/2014

RULE™ | Toneelschuur, Haarlem (NL)

24/10/2014 -
25/10/2014

RULE™ | Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam (NL)

11/09/2014

RULE™ | TF on Tour, Grand Theatre, Groningen (NL)

29/08/2014 -
31/08/2014

RULE™ | Spoffin Festival, Amersfoort (NL)

03/07/2014 -
08/07/2014

RULE™ | Over het IJ Festival, Amsterdam (NL)

13/06/2014 -
22/06/2014

RULE™ | Oerol Festival, Terschelling (NL)

26/03/2014 -
29/03/2014

RULE™ | Cement Festival, Den Bosch (NL)

11/03/2014 -
15/03/2014

RULE™ | Frascati Theater, Amsterdam (NL)

  • Concept, realisation, hostess Emke Idema | Business manager Kathleen Treier | Dramaturgy Nienke Scholts | Scenography Joris van Oosterwijk | Artistic coaching Dirk Verstockt | Production manager Nadin Topal/José Schuringa | Communication Carolien van Hooijdonk | Production Stichting Stranger, Frascati Producties, Grand Theatre Groningen Producties | Funding DasArts, Stichting Dioraphte, Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, Fonds Podiumkunsten, SNS REAAL Fonds, Stichting DOEN, VSBfonds

  • Thanks to the superb scenario with which the game is controlled using Idema’s computerised voice, you not only have to make your own choices, you also see the choices made by your fellow-players. Do you dare to think and act differently or do you conform?

    ★★★★ Simon van den Berg, Het Parool

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