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An adaptation of the award-winning book by Annet Schaap. A performance full of puppet violence, acting talent, live music, and video. Awarded the Boze Wolf Festival prize for best puppet theater performance of 2025. Theater FroeFroe and Johnny MUS were completely blown away by this magnificent story. Lampje is an adventure novel with an amazing heroine, but it is also an atmospheric and poetic contemporary fairy tale. Lampje is full of wonderful characters that make the book a source of inspiration for every visual artist. Lampje is a story about fathers, friendship, and being allowed to be who you are. Lampje lives with her father in a lighthouse. Her father is a lighthouse keeper; he has only one leg and is a drunkard. Lampje regularly has to help keep the lighthouse burning. On a stormy day, things go wrong: the lamp is not burning, father was drunk again. A ship crashes against the rocks and the municipality wants measures. Lampje is taken from her home. She is placed, for her own good, away from her father, in the Zwarte Huis. Het Zwarte Huis is a castle owned by a sea captain. Nobody wants to work there because a monster lives there. Maar Lampje does not believe in monsters. Annet Schaap is a tough illustrator. In 2017, she wrote her first own youth book, Lampje. She simply won all Dutch-language literary prizes with it, including the Gouden Griffel, the Boekenleeuw, and also the Woutertje Pieterse Prijs. Lampje immediately became a classic. The book has already been translated into more than 25 languages worldwide. This is a co-production of Theater FroeFroe and Johnny MUS. Mieke Laureys and Marc Maillard are tackling a giant of youth literature again after the adaptation of "Gitte". They are adapting the book into a performance in which image and theater wonderfully lift each other up. With: Mieke Laureys, Bert Dobbelaere, Gert Dupont, Chanou Mekenkamp, Tanya Zabarylo Live music: Hanne Torfs (compositions Hanne Torfs & Sam Renascent) Direction: Marc Maillard Tekst: Mieke Laureys Decor - Puppets - Costumes: Astrid Michaelis, Janneke Hertoghs, Roos Van de Leest, Bruno Smeyers, Gert Dupont, Marjolien Cuypers, Jan and Marc Maillard Techniek: Jamy Hollebeke (video creation), Sjim Rijnhout (electronics), Marjolien Cuypers and Jo Heijens In co-production with Johnny MUS, with the support of the Vlaamse Gemeenschap and Perpodium - Tax shelter of the Belgian federal government via Cronos Invest Lampje - prize for "Beste Theater" "We had to choose. It became Lampje, but it could also have been My Sweet Panther. In Lampje we are even more overwhelmed by hellish winds, wobbly furniture, flashing lights, thunderclaps, flapping curtains, blowing away pans. The production offers a grand and grotesque range of ingenious play between manipulated puppets and video recordings with typical FroeFroe elements such as the shrunken main character, the dollhouse installation, and that in combination with the live music, the play of the FroeFroe and Johnny MUS people. There are the moving images without sentimentality, and the hilarious moments in which the characters, played by actors or puppets or both, let themselves go wonderfully. Thank you, you two, FroeFroe and Johnny MUS, for making something so lyrically epic, something so beautiful for us, the audience." - Boze Wolf Jury 100% Culture - Lampje – A magical family performance from 9 years old 31/03/2025 Children's book 'Lampje' becomes a grand spectacle on the small stage, about single parents and children with missing pieces 12/12/2024 Recensie De Standaard **** FroeFroe and Johnny Mus adapt award-winning children's book: lampje at the end of the tunnel 12/12/2024 Radio interview Mieke Laureys and Marc Maillard on Culture Club - Radio 12/12/2024 Magnificent theater version of a clever book 03/04/2025 Review by Tuur Devens