Rotterdamsch Tooneel

The Rotterdamsch Tooneel (Dutch: Rotterdam Theatre) was a Dutch theatre company founded in 1900 and which was dissolved in 1923.

History
A scene from "Martin Jacobi's Remedie" being staged by the Rotterdamsch Tooneel, 1919

Because its name is fairly generic, there were other theatres in Rotterdam history which were known by the same name.

This twentieth century Rotterdamsch Tooneel was formed out an older theatre company, De Vereenigde Rotterdamsche Tooneelisten which had existed since 1884. In 1900 it was refounded as Rotterdamsch Tooneel.[1] The theatre had a progressive reputation and mainly performed new Dutch repertoire, including Multatuli's Vorstenschool[2] and the works of Jan Fabricius and J. van Randwijk.[3] Their repertoire also included new foreign pieces, such as Zaken zijn zaken by Octave Mirbeau[4] Liebelei by Arthur Schnitzler and Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen.[5] The troupe was considered to have a very high quality of productions. According to one 1925 obituary for one of its former actors, no matter which of the successive directors was running it during its prime, it had a recognizable style that was on part with any theatre in the country or even the world.[6]

During its period of operation, actors associated with the Rotterdamsch Tooneel included Dick van Veen,[7] Frits Tartaud,[6] Piet Bron, Jan van Ees, Richard Flink, Cor van der Lugt Melsert, Else Mauhs, Alida Tartaud-Klein,[8] and Jules Verstraete.[7]

After World War I, public interest had diminished to such an extent that the group could only survive by merging with the Hague Hofstad Tooneel in 1923. The theaters merged under the new name Vereenigd Rotterdamsch-Hofstad Tooneel.

References
  1. Walch, Jan; van der Lugt Melsert, Cor (1942). "Alida Johanna Maria Tartaud-Klein". Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde (in Dutch): 140–6.
  2. "Multatuli's Vorstenschool" (in Dutch). Nijgh & Van Ditmar's Uitgevers-Maatschappij. 1922. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  3. Naeff, Top (1921). Dramatische kroniek Vol. 4 (in Dutch). Van Holkema & Warendorf, "De Nieuwe Tijd". p. 213. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  4. Naeff, Top (1921). Dramatische kroniek, vol.3 (in Dutch). Van Holkema & Warendorf, "De Nieuwe Tijd". p. 59. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  5. van der Zalm, R.G.C. (1999). Ibsen op de planken. Een ensceneringsgeschiedenis van het werk van Henrik Ibsen in Nederland 1880-1995 (PDF). Amsterdam: Uitgeverij International Theatre & Film Books.
  6. "Frits Tartaud. 1875-1925". De kunst; een algemeen geïllustreerd en artistiek weekblad jrg 18, 1925/1926, no 928, 07-11-1925 (in Dutch) (928). 7 November 1925. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  7. Onze tooneelartisten: de voornaamste Nederlandsche actrices en acteurs met portret en levensbeschrijving (in Dutch). Utrechtse Courant. 1933. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  8. Zoek-licht : Nederlandsche encyclopædie voor allen, vol. VIII (in Dutch). Van Loghum Slaterus & Visser. 1925. p. 210. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
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