"To play a character out of a book you loved to read as a child, that's sort of like receiving an honourable gift...."

In Koning van Katoren, a family show based on the book by Dutch politician Jan Terlouw, I was lucky enough to play the aging wizard Pantaar, whom I feared and admired when I was 10 years old. It got me nominated for the Dutch Musical Award. Never knew it was a musical...