‘We keep going until everyone is smiling’

Playwrights at children’s hospital: Trumpeting with spit bags and bags full of dresses. In the theatre at Emma Children’s Hospital, shy patients are transformed into radiant actors every week. Theatre maker Bart Bosch has been committed to making theatre part of academic children’s hospitals in the Netherlands for ten years, he tells weekend magazine Mezza.

Playwrights at children’s hospital: Trumpeting with spit bags and bags full of dresses.

In the theatre at Emma Children’s Hospital, shy patients are transformed into radiant actors every week. Theatre maker Bart Bosch has been committed to making theatre part of academic children’s hospitals in the Netherlands for ten years, he tells weekend magazine Mezza. ‘We keep going until everyone is laughing.’

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Foto: Gilat Theater in het Emma Kinderziekenhuis theater maker, Bart Bosch © Koen Verheijden