Performing arts
Tuesday 14 January 2025

Er rent een berg voorbij

Kikker Stelt Voor: Plankton - Er rent een berg voorbij
photo: Kurt van der Elst

This is the monumental story of how our earth is constantly changing, told through a huge backdrop of cardboard rivers, clouds and trees. In A Mountain Runs Past, forests crawl across the stage, mountains crumble into beaches and the moon dances a waltz with the sea, while a four-part choir produces the sound of creaking rocks and chirping birds. Let yourself be carried away by an immense landscape painting that has come to life and makes you reflect on a different time scale. From the birth of the moon, past the first algae to come ashore, to the extinction of humans and even further…

Plankton adapts the 4.54 billion year history of the Earth into a brand new opera for all ages, language no problem (no text is spoken).