A people-pleasing soft activist decides to confront the emotion he fears most: for the first time in his life, he wants to become angry.
Mees van Rijswijk\u00a0is often described as \u201csweet,\u201d \u201ccalm,\u201d and \u201centhusiastic\u201d \u2014 an \u201ceverybody\u2019s friend,\u201d \u201ca nice guy, but actually genuinely nice.\u201d Someone once even called him \u201charmless.\u201d And that\u2019s where things went wrong. Because of course, nobody takes you seriously like that. Since then, Mees has had one wish: he wants to become furious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A soft activist decides to stop denying his own anger. He asks angry people for advice: partly to learn from them, partly to discover whether there\u2019s something in their anger that connects them. Maybe world peace begins in a mosh pit, or in the meeting of a knuckle and a jaw. AAAARGH<\/em> is a musical spoken word performance about a raw and uneasy search for anger. It is not a manual, not therapy, not a safe space. It\u2019s not even a word. AAAARGH<\/em> is a radical attempt to remain gentle precisely through fierce resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the Oerol Festival, an initial try-out version of AAAARGH<\/em> will be presented, after which Mees will perform the show throughout the summer at Theaterfestival de Parade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This show is part of the Explore the North Hub. During the Oerol Festival, Explore the North presents work across the island by artists connected to its production house. Explore the North is a production house and festival based at Podium Explore in Leeuwarden.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":25026,"parent":0,"menu_order":232,"template":"","agenda_activity":[107],"agenda_language":[],"class_list":["post-25029","agenda","type-agenda","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","agenda_activity-performance"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAbout Mees<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Mees van Rijswijk (1999) is a spoken word artist, theatre maker, and (former?) soft activist from Leeuwarden. He takes being human with a grain of salt and prefers to describe things exactly as they are, using as few syllables as possible. Mees has won several awards for his spoken word pieces, performs all across the Netherlands, and enjoys solving sudoku puzzles along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n