Het Acteursgenootschap (Dutch Actors Society)

Het Acteursgenootschap (Dutch Actors Society) is rated 3 out of 5 in the category entertainment. Read and write reviews about Het Acteursgenootschap (Dutch Actors Society). Het Acteursgenootschap (The Actors’ Society NL) is a theatre company with a focus on the community of science and academia. Their first play, The ConScience App, was written in collaboration with the Young Academy of The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) to tackle ‘grey areas’ in scientific integrity. It has played at universities and international congresses in the Netherlands, France and Norway, and was highlighted in the UK’s Royal Society and UKRIO Integrity in Practice Toolkit. Bringing the passions, envies, angers and frustrations of academia to life with humour and insight, the play is followed by a structured discussion among science professionals. Their latest production is #MeTooAcademia - The Learning Curve. In response to a shocking series of articles in the magazine ScienceGuide, the Dutch Network of Women Professors commissioned Het Acteursgenootschap to produce a number of sketches for their Spring Symposium. The theme: sexual intimidation and abuse of power in the university context. The heated responses in the discussion which followed led to a revised and expanded version commissioned by the Erasmus University Rotterdam. The Learning Curve is a 40-minute play based on documented accounts from Dutch universities. At times humorous, at times bleak, it’s an uncomfortable mirror designed to provoke discussion and a search for solutions among academic stakeholders at all levels.