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Two major spectacles “Malaya” and “Globe” debuted in Mexico at Festival International de Teatro de Calle Zacatecas. An overwhelming experience for many reasons! The spectacles at Plaza de Armas, were visited by more than 80,000 people.“Malaya” This spectacular performance offers a surreal journey through the dreams and nightmares of the human being, with which they…

The company Close-Act THEATRE will perform atFestival Internacional de Teatro de Calle Zacatecas Two monumental street theatre productions “Malaya” and “Globe” by the Dutch company Close-Act Theatre, will participate in the twenty-first edition of the FITCZAC to be held from October 12 to 19 in Zacatecas.The company is honoured to get the opportunity to present…

Normally Close-Act arrives with a van or truck full of costumes and equipment.Playing abroad everything goes by cargo arriving weeks before the performers do.Surely, not every costume fits a suitcase, but some do go with checked baggage! The Blue Birds for example.This act is specially customized to fit into two suitcases, making it easy to…

You will be moved! Like the sea, the crowd finds its way around the obstacles, through the open spaces. A street theatre spectacle that literally moves the audience. Actors and mobile objects move through and with the crowd. Like the sea people find their way around the emerging obstacles. A unique experience! A fisherman in…

THE APPROACH FROM A CHILD’S PERPECTIVE GLOBE responds to today’s world as caught in a net of financial structures and social class differences. The visual spectacular translation is inspired by current themes from world cultures and universal children’s stories. The story of GLOBE is the real world being approached from a child’s perspective. The central…

A giant I-Puppet moves around walking, running, jumping, or even flying.It investigates all objects and climbs everything that needs a closer look.Watch out. It can also land on you. EYES LOOK AT YOU.Investigators of this planet, explorers of our time.Controlled on a different level: a collective brain? They are looking for something…and find you!Strange, funny,…

Op korte termijn is Theatergroep Close-Act op zoek naar een Financieel administratief medewerker M/V (8-16 u/wk) op zzp basis, woonachtig in regio Tilburg. Voor toelichting en meer informatie kun je contact opnemen met Hesther Melief,Tel: 013-543 73 70 of via hesther@closeact.nl Taakomschrijving De financieel medewerker ondersteunt het productiekantoor en de zakelijk en artistieke leiding in…

Businessmen on stilts appear at the world Expo in DubaiThe actors confront the audience with the rush of their daily life.This synchronic group moves around like a grey flock.It marches over the Dubai Expo while their suitcases swing up and down.Their moves are a fixed choreography, artificial but accepted. New artists from the United Arab…

Close-Act will present “Suits” and “Blue Birds” and much more.In September the company arrives at the expo to perform and train new artists from the United Arab EmiratesThis exchange makes it possible to create a new large group of street performers. Expo Dubai is the Universal Exhibition that will be held in the United Arab…