Shireen Strooker

Shireen Strooker

Born: July 22, 1935
Died: April 19, 2018
in Den Haag, Netherlands
Shireen Strooker was a Dutch stage and screen actress, writer stage director and filmmaker.

Movies for Shireen Strooker...

Stages
Title: Stages
Character: Jawa
Released: November 8, 2007
Type: Movie
Stages is a film about loneliness, anxiety, struggle and love, which in an unconventional way shows the survival of two former lovers in their forties and their seventeen year-old son.
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Het Werkteater 1970-1985
Title: Het Werkteater 1970-1985
Released: September 8, 1997
Type: Movie
Documentary about the Dutch theatregroup the Werktheater. The aim of the company was to create socially relevant theater by means of cooperative processes and improvisation. They often played their performances on location, such as in hospitals, prisons, healthcare institutions and schools. In this documentary, those involved are interviewed about this remarkable theater group.
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Going to the Dogs
Title: Going to the Dogs
Released: November 30, 1986
Type: Movie
A behind the scenes look and edited registration of the groundbreaking theater play 'Going to the dogs' by the Dutch artist Wim T. Schippers. The play was performed by six Alsations (German Shepherds).
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Still Smokin
Title: Still Smokin
Character: Assistant Manager
Released: May 6, 1983
Type: Movie
Cheech & Chong are invited to a celebrity party in Amsterdam. When they get there, however, it turns out that the guy who invited them has taken off with all the money. They are actually expecting Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton, so our heroes get to be Mr. Burt and Mr. Dolly.
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A Hot Summer Night
Title: A Hot Summer Night
Released: March 11, 1982
Type: Movie
A husband, half of an entertainment duo, the Nellicos, tells his wife, who is the other half of the duo, that he has another woman. But they cannot discuss this as he tells her only just before they are due to perform in front of a large audience. (BFI)
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Bosch en Lucht
Title: Bosch en Lucht
Character: Uschi Engel
Released: July 19, 1981
Type: Movie
Video registration of the German version of the performance 'Bosch en Lucht' by the Dutch theatre group 'het Werkteater'. 'Bosch en Lucht' was a performance about mentally handicapped children.
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Charlotte
Title: Charlotte
Character: Mukki
Released: February 26, 1981
Type: Movie
In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlotte must, besides forgetting all she left behind, deal with her grandmother's depression, and her mother's suicide. To fight despair, Charlotte starts to paint, producing over one thousand images. "Is my life real, or is it theater?" This is the title she gives her body of work, which highlights her former life in Berlin. She finds herself though her art, but in 1943 is deported to Germany and Auschwitz.
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Hello Fellow Man
Title: Hello Fellow Man
Character: Wendela van Asperen
Released: January 4, 1980
Type: Movie
TV-adaptation of the performance by the Dutch theatre group 'Het Werkteater'. Three ladies of high society invite homeless people, homeless people and junks to spend a pleasant evening with them, in order to promote communication and integration.
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In for Treatment
Title: In for Treatment
Released: January 11, 1979
Type: Movie
An unsuspecting flower farmer visits the hospital to discuss some test results, only to find himself admitted without explanation for an indefinite period of further examination and observation.
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Camping
Title: Camping
Character: Astrid
Released: August 17, 1978
Type: Movie
Happiness and sadness, joy and sorrow at the campsite. Secret letters, hysteria, bullying, hippie romanticism, betrayal and fading love.
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Toestanden
Title: Toestanden
Released: December 22, 1976
Type: Movie
"Conditions" - The improvisation-based performance was inspired by psychiatrists such as RD Laing (Family and Madness) and J. Foudraine (Who is of wood). The Werkteater played this performance 'in the den of the lion': in psychiatric institutions for patients and carers. This led to very intensive and adventurous performances in which 'a lot' always happened. Afterwards the discussions sometimes ran high, but even during the performance the audience sometimes mixed themselves in the scenes.
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Avondrood
Title: Avondrood
Character: direktrice / Ms. Walewska
Released: November 27, 1976
Type: Movie
TV-adaptation of the performance by the Dutch theatre group 'het Werkteater'. A realistic fairy tale about old people in the no man's land between life and death, set in a retirement home.
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Alle dagen feest
Title: Alle dagen feest
Released: April 14, 1976
Type: Movie
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Kattengat 10
Title: Kattengat 10
Released: April 20, 1975
Type: Movie
Documentairy about the progressive theatre group 'Het Werkteater' at their home base on Kattengat 10 in Amsterdam.
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Title: Ti-Ta Wizard
Character: Tante Truus
Released: October 1, 1972
Type: TV
Ti-Ka lives with her father Ti-Ta a Wizard in a castle in the sky high above the clouds. Her father is a absent-minded wizard, and has a spellbook. He also brews all kinds of his own brews. However, he has one limitation: he cannot turn strawberries into camels, but he can turn them into dromedaries. Ti-Ka also learns magic from her father, but she only partially succeeds because of her father's absent-mindedness. However, if she claps her hands, she can freeze all people on earth like a statue. When she claps her hands again they start moving again and they think they have slept.
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Confessions of Loving Couples
Title: Confessions of Loving Couples
Released: February 16, 1967
Type: Movie
Author Frank's debut novel is successful, but he needs the proceeds to pay off a debt and his girlfriend Mascha ends their relationship. He meets another woman, but he and Mascha also seem to make amends. These amorous vicissitudes give him inspiration for a new book, which will deal with eroticism in the Netherlands.