Dhaenens

CENTRE STAGE: In Review: Bigmouth, Little One, 887

BigMouth Feb 11–21; York Theatre Spurred by his interest in the power of words to change the course of history, Valentijn Dhaenens set out to read at least one speech per day, and ended up reading over 1000 in a year. He began to see interesting correlations between some of them. Inhabiting the persona, mannerisms, voice, and language of each speaker, BigMouth sees Dhaenens deliver speeches in a variety of languages including English, French, German, Dutch, and Flemish (his mother tongue). It’s a huge feat switching between wildly different characters and languages, and he never skipped a beat.   A…

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