{"id":3836,"date":"2026-07-09T12:46:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T12:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.usva.nl\/?p=3836"},"modified":"2026-07-09T12:47:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T12:47:50","slug":"friendship-never-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.usva.nl\/en\/friendship-never-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendship (N)ever Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You\u2019re expected to fight for a romantic relationship and family ties are considered unconditional. But friendships are allowed to fizzle out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">This would be considered unacceptable in almost any other kind of relationship. Why is this so different? Aren't friends your chosen family? Why is your romantic partner always the plus-one, and do people go to therapy for a relationship but rarely for a friendship? In short, why is friendship such an undervalued form of relationships?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this short monologue, performed by seven different members of a friend group, A-Way Productions pays a tribute to friendship. Because friendship is like cleaning out your closet: sometimes you own beautiful things you no longer use, but no longer fit in your closet, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\"><strong>Script by:\u00a0 <\/strong>Jaap Broekstra<strong><br>Director: <\/strong>Mariska de Bone <strong><br>Cast: <\/strong>Bart Timmermans, Benjamin de Graaff, Fardau Mulder, Karl van Stiphout, Mariska de Bone, Nicky Palmans en Robert Danens<br><strong>Crew: <\/strong>Joppe van Dijk, Mareike Seitz en Renate Kat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.awayproductions.nl\">https:\/\/www.awayproductions.nl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This performance lasts 15\u201320 minutes and will be presented 7 times on September 4:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">15.00 \u2013 15.20 \u2013 NL spoken<br>16.00 \u2013 16.20 \u2013 NL spoken<br>17.00 \u2013 17.20 \u2013 EN spoken<br>18.00 \u2013 18.20 \u2013 NL spoken<br>19.30 \u2013 19.50 \u2013 NL spoken<br>20.30 \u2013 20.50 \u2013 NL spoken<br>21.30 \u2013 21.50 \u2013 EN spoken<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voor een romantische relatie zou je moeten vechten en familiebanden zijn onvoorwaardelijk. Maar een vriendschap mag doodbloeden. Toch is dit not done in elke andere relatievorm. Maar waarom eigenlijk? Vrienden zijn toch de familie die je zelf kiest? Waarom is je romantische partner altijd de plus one en ga je voor een relatie in therapie, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-toneel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.usva.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AWAY.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usva.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usva.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usva.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usva.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usva.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3836"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.usva.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3841,"href":"https:\/\/www.usva.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836\/revisions\/3841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usva.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usva.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usva.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usva.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}