Performed by Gable Roelofsen
Script: Gable Roelofsen, composed out of texts: Stephen Glass, Barbara Ehrenreich, Lady Gaga and several other sources.
Music: Lady Gaga, Yoonha 85
Directed by Romy Roelofsen
Life is too good to be true is created in Maastricht and funded by the City Council. The work is a co-production with Theater aan het Vrijthof and premiered at the Maastricht Toneelstad Festival 2010. The Dutch version of Life is too good to be true won the Dioraphte Best of Amsterdam Fringe Award 2010. Gable Roelofsen worked on the translation of the text at Rodopi Art Centre in Bulgaria with the support of Art Office Sofia after this Life is too good toured internationally.
We are very grateful that Daphne Thissen, cultural attaché, at the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherland invited us to the Edinburgh Fringe and also our colleagues Gehring&Ketelaars (Bye bye world, can be seen at the Fringe from August 15th) to promote Dutch theatre.
We would like to thank for the Edinburgh run of Life is too good to be true:
Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Daphne Thissen
Studio Dubbelagent
Teunkie van der Sluijs
Fraser-Cannon Productions
Flavia and Joanna
Prospero Communications
Elin, Madelaine, James, Alex and the rest of the team
Underbelly venue
and technicians of Bellydancer
City council of Maastricht & the Province of Limburg
Theater aan het Vrijthof
Elly Rietbroek, Mikos Pieters
Amsterdam Fringe festival
Anneke Jansen