MARTIN FONDSE

How is it that some lives end in utter loneliness? With All the Lonely People, Silbersee and Martin Fondse Music pay tribute to these forgotten lives in a musical mosaic. The true stories are often wondrous, exciting, surprising, and heartbreakingly painful, but above all, deeply human.

Actress Jacqueline Blom, accompanied by a diverse cast of multi-performers, steps into the lives of people who died alone. Together they reconstruct the absurd, colorful life stories of these people who exist outside the gaze of society. They are their neighbors, absent family members, and the funeral director. What happened to these people that led them to die in utter loneliness?

From jazz to Bach’s chorales

Former Composer of the Netherlands and Boy Edgar Prize winner Martin Fondse combines jazz with arias and chorales inspired by Bach in this performance, and also appears on stage himself. Mart van Berckel directs. His work is visual, poetic, and boundlessly imaginative, as he has previously shown at NITE and the Dutch National Opera.

Based on a Volkskrant series

The performance is based on the stories author Joris van Casteren recorded for de Volkskrant in the series “De Eenzame Uitvaart” (The Lonely Funeral). For years, he has been committed to the eponymous foundation, which invites poets to read at funerals without relatives.