Wild Wasps & Nipple Fruit (Trailer)

'Wilde Wespen & Verboden Vruchten' / 'Wild Wasps & Nipple Fruit';
Two women, two lives, two worlds

A play about Maria Sibylla Merian in Suriname

Trailer for the Netherlands theatre production of 'Wilde Wespen & Verboden Vruchten' (English title: 'Wild Wasps & Nipple Fruit'), a play inspired by the life of Maria Sibylla Merian, the 17th century artist and naturalist, and her book 'The Metamorphosis of the Suriname Insects'. The play was performed in Suriname in 2008 and in the Netherlands in 2010.

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Concept, text and direction: Karen Eve Johnson
Actors: Netherlands: Katrien van Beurden & Esther Drenthe Suriname: Nettie Blanken & Helen Kamperveen
Dutch translation : Matin van Veldhuizen
Animations by Mayura Subhedar with additional material by Germaine Colajanni
Sound: Thomas Myrmel
Costumes: Margot Koudstaal
Trailer: Hans Hijmerling

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Wilde
• Wespen
• Verboden
• Vruchten
• Wild
• Wasps
• Nipple
• Fruit
• Maria
• Sibylla
• Merian
• Karen
• Eve
• Johnson
• Suriname
• Metamorphosis
• Insectorum
• Surinamensium
• insect
• plant
• butterfly
• ecology
• slave
• trade
• Frankfurt
• Nuremburg
• Amsterdam