A View From Nowhere

Four characters step onto the grass of a golf course. They don’t know each other personally, but all four are members of the Association Against Doubt. They’ve come there with a single goal: to record universal ideas about the world, thereby finally banishing doubt. Reluctantly, they begin to think, talk, stutter, and play golf. No one gets anywhere—not in their thinking, not in their talking, and not in their golf—except perhaps in their stuttering. Yes, perhaps in their stuttering.

In this musical and philosophical performance, the tension between the desire for certainty and the failure of speech is explored in a one-and-a-half-hour composition by Annelinde Bruijs. Following the success of *Ground Floor* at Orkater, *A View From Nowhere* marks the second collaboration between composer Annelinde Bruijs, writer Maartje Wortel, and director Suze Milius. With this work, they continue their musical exploration of the verbatim musical, in which spoken language forms the basis for a new libretto.

This production is a co-production of Stichting Studio Bruijs with Orkater, Urland, Boogaerdt/Vanderschoot, and De Singel.