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URLAND is the name of a Dutch theatre company located in Rotterdam, founded in 2010. The group consists of four young people: Ludwig Bindervoet, Thomas Dudkiewicz, Marijn Alexander de Jong, Jimi Zoet. They are inspired by techno en deathmetal, introducing lasers, and foam machines.

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mu' mu' mu'

scene from the play, displaying the word: WOORD

On March 4th, 2020, they premiered with their play named mu' mu' mu' (word, word, word). The play is a dadistic de-construction of language in general and includes parts from the Klingon Hamlet and the Klingon version of the Hamletmachine (orig. "Die Hamletmaschine"), a play written in 1977 by German playwright and theatre director Heinrich Müller. The play is mostly presented in Klingon, with English and Dutch surtitles.(1) The Klingon was translated by Lieven L. Litaer.

The title of the play is based on a phrase from Hamlet act II, scene II:

Polonius: What do you read my lord? nuq DalaD joHwI'?

Hamlet: Words, words, words. mu', mu', mu'.

Polonius:	What do you read my lord?	nuq DalaD joHwI'?
Hamlet:	Words, words, words.	mu', mu', mu'.

Production history

The idea was born when the group found out about the Klingon Hamlet in 2016. They visited the 25th qep'a' in 2018 and talked to Klingon creator Marc Okrand and many other enthousiastic Klingonists to find a better understanding of the language. According to their website, the group "spontaneously became lovingly extremist and now makes a visual performance about language. URLAND wants to make language tangible: the confusion, the (de-)construction, the beauty and the ugliness."

At the end of 2019, they contacted Lieven L. Litaer to make a Klingon translation of Heiner Müller's Hamletmachine.

During further creation process, which is always a constant flow in this group, they decided to not simply do a one-to-one presentation of the original play, but instead only use parts of it, in a mix with other phrases, like those from Hamlet.

The play premiered on March 4, 2020 and was played 5 times (see below) before the COVID-19 pandemic forced the theatres to be closed. Since then, the play was never played again.

For the play not to be lost entirely, the group decided to create a movie version of the play as a stream from their website. This was published on June 21^st, 2021.(2)

Group members

Additional members of the production are

production leader	Sarah Steeman
graphics	Ruben Verkuylen
publicity	Esra J. Merkel
business leader	Jens Besse
masks	Julia Warmerdam, Leo Maliepaard

Tour dates

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic which was announced mid-march 2020, first some of the plays, then the entire tour was cancelled.

3 March	Theater Rotterdam (try out)	played
4 March	Theater Rotterdam (Premiere)	played
5 March	Theater Rotterdam	played
7 March	Corrosia Theater, Almere	played
11 March	Theater aan de Rijn, Arnhem	played
12 March	Theater aan de Rijn, Arnhem	played
13 March	De Lawei, Drachten	canceled
18 March	Theater Frascati, Amsterdam	canceled
19 March	Theater Frascati, Amsterdam	canceled
20 March	Theater Frascati, Amsterdam	canceled
21 March	Theater Frascati, Amsterdam	canceled
25 March	Vrijhof Cultuur, Enschede	canceled
26 March	De Nieuwe Vorst, Tilburg	canceled
27 March	Toneelschuur, Haarlem	canceled
28 March	Toneelschuur, Haarlem	canceled
1 April	LUX, Nijmegen	canceled
2 April	De Lieve Vrouw, Amersfoort	canceled
3 April	Theater Ins Blau, Leiden	canceled
16 April	Chassé Theater, Breda	canceled
23 April	Theater Kikker, Utrecht	canceled
24 April	Theater Kikker, Utrecht	canceled
25 April	Theater Kikker, Utrecht	canceled
8 May	Het Nationale Theater, Den Haag	canceled
9 May	Het Nationale Theater, Den Haag (dernière NL)	canceled
15 May	Monty Kultuurfaktorij, Antwerpen (première BE)	canceled
16 May	Monty Kultuurfaktorij, Antwerpen (dernière BE)	canceled