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Simone Zeefuik @lazeefuik.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Dancehall airhorns for Romana Vrede who won the 2024 Playwright Prize. With this annual prize -which rotates between the Netherlands and Belgium- a jury picks the best, fresh-fresh written script. Language: Dutch. Romana Vrede won with 'Tijd zal ons leren'. A masterpiece indeed. So proud of her!

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Simone Zeefuik @lazeefuik.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Not a Stromae song goes by where I don't promise myself to 'get back on my French.' I mean, food can be ordered and politeness can be extended. But poetically-fluent is the goal. When I finally reach that level, I'll owe a massive 'merci' to Maboula Soumahoro. Her podcasts and writings?! Let's. Go!

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Simone Zeefuik @lazeefuik.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

For 10+ years @readmyworld.bsky.social -festival has blessed me with so much. There, I attended some of my favourite programs and had the most precious encounters. It's always been home, always been fam. Out of all of that goodness, crossing paths with Maboula Soumahoro is one of the top-top joys.

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Simone Zeefuik @lazeefuik.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Went to see Barbara Walker's "Being Here" at both the Whitworth in Manchester (early January) and Arnolfini in Bristol (early March), UK. Our traditional custom of calling yourself from certain spaces when you're leaving? Had to do that in Manchester. Walker's work completely drew me in. Fantastic.

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Read My World @readmyworld.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Our preview event on Thu. April 3 offers an introduction to the folks and forms of our upcoming festival (Sept 11-13). With: Maboula Soumahoro, Lou Mensah, Emma van Meyeren, @pelumiadejumo.bsky.social , Adama Keïta & @lazeefuik.bsky.social . Doors open at 19.30h, the program is from 20.00h-21.30h.

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Simone Zeefuik @lazeefuik.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Guaranteed joy: Discussing exhibitions with photographer and Kunsthal (Rotterdam) curator Shehera Grot. Excited to have her as our guest for the upcoming GembertheeSessies. Date, time: Thu. April 10, 19.30h. Location: Bijlmer Parktheater (Amsterdam, NL) Language: Dutch. Illustration: Grant Jurius.

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Simone Zeefuik @lazeefuik.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Romana Vrede invited me to write the next play she'll direct for Theater Rotterdam. Some of the images on my moodboards: 1. Manyaku Mashilo's "Grandmothers Teachings-the Night of the Red Moons", 2. Still from Michaela Coel's "I May Destroy You" & 3. Still from Blitz Bazawule's "The Burial of Kojo".

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Simone Zeefuik @lazeefuik.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

"And the maps of spring always have to be redrawn again, in undared forms." - Sylvia Wynter in her essay “The Pope Must Have Been Drunk, The King Of Castile A Madman: Culture as actuality, and the Caribbean Rethinking Modernity". Wynter, very much with us. Great company while writing This Script.

Accompanying this text we see a black and white picture of Sylvia Wynter. Wynter is a Jamaican writer, playwright, critic and philosopher who was born in Cuba in 1928. On the picture, which is a portrait that ends a little under her bust, Wynter is wearing a striped-patterned blouse. Her hair, cut to fit the rounding of her cheeks, is parted on the left. She's gorgeous and her face is so kind. She looks like she smells fantastic and would actually listen when she asks you about your day.

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