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Theatre de Lieve Vrouw
Lieve Vrouwestraat 13
3811 BP Amersfoort
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It was bound to happen: a performance about the little deer where Mime theatre group Bambie is named after. Who has not been enchanted by the most famous children's film of all time? In Walt Disney's version, Bambie grows up in an idyllic forest with talking friends. The original 1923 story is far from romantic. In fact, Felix Salten outlines a brutal nature in which you must learn to rely on yourself to survive.

In its own expressive theatre language - wildly absurdist and emotionally charged - Mime theatre group Bambie - contrasts Disney romance and Salten realism. Iconic movie scenes are given a new translation: Bambi's adorable birth, the slapstick slipper on the ice, the death of Bambi's mother, the hormonal discovery of love. The forest is a dwelling where the elements of nature intrude. Inhabited by human characters with animal urges.

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It was bound to happen: a performance about the little deer where Mime theatre group Bambie is named after. Who has not been enchanted by the most famous children's film of all time? In Walt Disney's version, Bambie grows up in an idyllic forest with talking friends. The original 1923 story is far from romantic. In fact, Felix Salten outlines a brutal nature in which you must learn to rely on yourself to survive.

In its own expressive theatre language - wildly absurdist and emotionally charged - Mime theatre group Bambie - contrasts Disney romance and Salten realism. Iconic movie scenes are given a new translation: Bambi's adorable birth, the slapstick slipper on the ice, the death of Bambi's mother, the hormonal discovery of love. The forest is a dwelling where the elements of nature intrude. Inhabited by human characters with animal urges.

In Bambie plays Bambi, three individuals seek a personal answer to the question of what our "natural" destiny is. And what life lessons are needed to mature in this day and age.

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