ORION ENSEMBLE

Dear sister Ursula, I’m going to America.” A quotation from Dutch (juvenile) literature which most people can place effortlessly. Prikkebeen. By J.J.A. Goeverneur. Or was perhaps Gabriël Smit the author? And had Gerrit Komrij anything to do with it?
In reality the leptosomic butterfly-catcher was a creation by the Swiss Rodolphe Töpffer who originally had not intended it for delicate children’s souls. Tatiana and Roelant Radier (brother and sister indeed) recite from the various Prikkebeen versions which are provided with a literary – historic framework by Rob Scholten. The whole being illustrated with magic lantern pictures and musical intermezzi by the Orion Ensemble.
(Text and conception: Rob Scholten and Tatiana Radier).