Modest Doubt 2013

written, staged and recorded by
Bea De Visser

Modest Doubt #1 and #2 are both performances with its origins in music and theatre and set as a performative event. This cycle of performances, recordings, and readings commenced in spring 2013 and was first hosted by the Urban Explorers festival Dordrecht (NL).

Modest Doubt # 1
Modest Doubt #1 was scripted, staged and recorded by Bea de Visser. Performed by counter tenor Oscar Verhaar. Its lyrics are an assembly of elements of the European Convention on Human Rights and the Woman Monologues by William Shakespeare.

Modest Doubt # 2
Modest Doubt # 2 was scripted, staged and recorded by Bea de Visser. Performed by the pianists Javier Krohn en Erwin Roommert Weerstra. The event is contemporary interpretation of Gnossiennes 1 by Erik Satie, in both composition and composer.

Excerpt #1

Excerpt #2

• camera BENITO STRANGIO
• sound MATT KEMP
• editor BEA DE VISSER

• music Modest Doubt #2 Gnossienne nr. Erik Satie adaptation for two piano's by BEA DE VISSER
• music Modest Doubt #1
• text adaptation Modest Doubt #1 BEA DE VISSER from European Convention on Human Rights, Women Monologues by William Shakespeare
• song adaptation Modest Doubt #1 by OSCAR VERHAAR

Modest_Doubt.pdf