Kwasi & Kwame

decor Gerrit Timmers
Libretto Arthur Japin
musical director/conductor Wim Steinmann
directors Mirjam Koen, Gerrit Timmers
choreography Ton Lutgerink, Marieke den Dulk
set design Gerrit Timmers
soloist Hans Voschezang, Brian Green, Philip Sheffield, Bibi Heal, Ruby Philogene-Doran, Annelies Lamm, Hubert Claessens, Keel Watson, Philippe Do, Jean-Léon Klostermann, Jan Willem Baljet, Mitchell Zhanghaza, Nathan Musoki an a children’s chorus

A new production by Opera O.T. in co-production with Ensemble Domestica, based on the novel The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi (De zwarte met het witte hart) by Arthur Japin. Opening night Octobre 2007. With O.T., the story of Kwasi and Kwame (two African princes who were given to King Willem I and grew up in this country) is not just about the past. It is about identity and integration, about the facile idea that we have in the western world about identity being something that can be traded in, and the notion we have that our values are somehow soul-saving. It is about the abyss between the old and the new world that many refugees live in.