Lampje

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 lit, father is drunk again. A ship smashes against the rocks and the municipality wants to take 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. No one wants to work there because a monster lives there. Maar Lampje does not believe in monsters. Lampje is an adventure novel with an amazing heroine, but it is also an atmospheric and poetic contemporary fairy tale. It is full of wonderful characters that make the book an inspiration for every visual artist. Lampje is a story about fathers, friendship, and being allowed to be who you are. Annet Schaap is a brilliant 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. Theater FroeFroe and Johnny MUS were completely blown away by this magnificent story and they are adapting the book into a performance in which image and theater wonderfully lift each other up. Awarded the Boze Wolf Festival prize for best puppet theater performance of 2025.