Brideshead Revisited

After the success of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, De Warme Winkel brings another English literary classic to the theatre. Florian Myjer, together with Abke Haring, catapults Brideshead Revisited into the 21st century.

The secretly autobiographical Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh tells the story of Charles Ryder, who, as a young student at Oxford in the early 20th century, falls under the spell of the aristocratic Flyte family. One sultry summer long, he basks in their opulent life at the heavenly family country estate, where he falls in love with both son Sebastian and daughter Julia Flyte.
 
Yet, with the end of summer and the rise of fascism, adulthood also presents itself. No matter how much Charles would like it to, the freedom of those golden August days is not coming back. What had appeared to be the prelude to a radically honest and free-spirited life turns out to be the eve of a desperate and cynical existence.
 
Trapped in a bitter worldview himself, for Evelyn Waugh writing this novel was an attempt to recover the happiness of his younger years. Inspired by this soul-searching, De Warme Winkel exploit Brideshead Revisited as a vehicle for an autopsy of love and an unfolding of our (sexual) identity. With live music composed by Rik Elstgeest and the memories and fantasies of Florian and Abke as the beating heart, they finally resuscitate the epic love story Waugh so longed for.

"A thrilling dialogue about love." — NRC ★★★★★ 

"Brideshead Revisited emerges as a generous and highly vulnerable portrait of two people constantly oscillating between shame and hope."⁠ — Volkskrant ★★★★ ⁠ 

• De Warme Winkel is making national and international waves with witty, bold, and intelligent productions on a wide range of themes. They fully plagiarized Café Müller by Pina Bausch in their performance titled De Warme Winkel speelt De Warme Winkel (De Warme Winkel plays De Warme Winkel), challenged traditional repertoire theater during a show by Ivo van Hove in Achterkant, and sparked intense debates on (sexual) identity in Lady Chatterley’s Lover. In the 2021/2022 season, they toured the Netherlands and Belgium with their performance titled Een oprechte ode de Ironie (A Sincere Ode to Irony), in which they shared the stage with reality TV stars from shows like Temptation Island. The artistic core of the group consists of Vincent Rietveld, Ward Weemhoff, and Florian Myjer, but there are also many affiliated members who are part of the DNA of the group.