Once Upon a Time...
There was the idea of enlivening the openings of art exhibitions by including a little theatre. Since the art exhibitions showed work by artists of various nationalities, it was decided that the theatre should also be multinational and performed in Portuguese, English, German and Dutch.
The first exhibition, “Colours”, was followed in 2007 by an exhibition of Surrealistic art, and the embryo theatre group, somewhat boldly, decided to mount a full length surrealist play - Tom Stoppard’s “After Magritte”. This founding group included 6 people who went on to form the core of the Aperitivo Performance Group: Diane Cantillon Ings, who directed the play, Roger Legg, who built the set, Jane Page and Mary Legg, who helped generally, Constant van Scherpenseel, who played the hero and Gertrud Dürnholz, who played the grandmother - and the tuba.
After that, the Group just grew and grew. A trilogy of plays known to us as the Park Bench Pinters; The Portuguese Tradition - the first play written by our own playwright, Jane Page; and a long list of others, all on: "The stories so far..."
There was the idea of enlivening the openings of art exhibitions by including a little theatre. Since the art exhibitions showed work by artists of various nationalities, it was decided that the theatre should also be multinational and performed in Portuguese, English, German and Dutch.
The first exhibition, “Colours”, was followed in 2007 by an exhibition of Surrealistic art, and the embryo theatre group, somewhat boldly, decided to mount a full length surrealist play - Tom Stoppard’s “After Magritte”. This founding group included 6 people who went on to form the core of the Aperitivo Performance Group: Diane Cantillon Ings, who directed the play, Roger Legg, who built the set, Jane Page and Mary Legg, who helped generally, Constant van Scherpenseel, who played the hero and Gertrud Dürnholz, who played the grandmother - and the tuba.
After that, the Group just grew and grew. A trilogy of plays known to us as the Park Bench Pinters; The Portuguese Tradition - the first play written by our own playwright, Jane Page; and a long list of others, all on: "The stories so far..."
