Being Arthur.

That was the legend of King Arthur in "BEING ARTHUR" at the Operadagen Rotterdam.

Great arrangement with a 20 min boat trip each way.  Going from the likely most spectacular point of Rotterdam to the former Rotterdam Dry-dock Company, RDM, at the former submarines warf.  Even without sun - and thankfully without rain - a nice boat trip!

to keep it short: the programe booklet looks and is great!  :)  After the performance I was flabbergasted:  Production crew list with résumés ...  Great ideas perhaps, but I didn't see anything like design or so.   

Okay, the composer Lucas Wiegerink did actually a great job! A bit renaissance, a bit old folk, some neo avant garde 20th century and even a funny rap and mostly West-End / Broadway musical song scores.  No really, a great talent IMO!  And all well sung, well played with just only cello, electronic harpsichord/piano, percussion/xylophone and a trumpet player.  

But the parts in-between ... :(  frankly... That will do. ;)  Sure, there are funny ideas and anoncrymes who might be funny.  The whole gig about the minibus is - I hope - a reference to the old "Comedia del Arte" but the few people I spoke afterwards didn't got that link. :/ 

It's a fact: the harder the audience has to laugh in the first part, the deeper they will weep at the end.  But after one hour of some smiles and a few grins, 15 mins of quasi philosophical reflection and projection on gender identity... I wasn't the only one almost snoring loudly! ;)

But after all, it was just the second performance and except the prelude not in open air.  The boat trip on its own alone, was the trip to Rotterdam worth! :) 

Last minutes of the journey, down in front, the old building of the Holland America Line at "de kop van Zuid".  :)