Evening games


Evening Games is a Jef Geeraerts concert. The KRO broadcast it on Tuesday, March 11, 1969, in the Tuesday evening theater program. The director was Willem Tollenaar. The broadcast took 43 minutes. Scrolling

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This is Geeraerts first work for radio. The piece is typical of his writing. It often exists, especially in his later work (such as Gangreen 1 for example), from a virtually uninterrupted lyrical word flow. In this audition, it is unleashed and held by a frustrated middle-aged teacher who plays cat and mouse with his stubborn mother in law when he is alone with her at night. The situation also seems to be related to the Fun and Games company, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee. One should not be wrong either: the wrong piece is less a study in malice or in disgust and anxiety. At the end, the main character ends in total alienation and deprivation ...

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