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We Are Such Stuff

Deen van Meer
ISBN 978-9-46226-439-7
240 x 340 mm

‘Do you know Hedda Gabler?’ asks the protagonist, a graphic designer who loves to swim, in the epilogue that Arnon Grunberg wrote for We Are Such Stuff. The graphic designer is trying to convince a strange but brilliant lawyer to take on the legal case of his sister, an actress who accidently killed a colleague because somebody replaced her fake stage gun with a real one. In his eerie short story Grunberg brilliantly interweaves the photographs of the play Hedda Gabler, three photographs chosen out of Van Meer’s career as a stage photographer with the plot of a horrific accident. One cannot miss the connection here with the unfortunate incident that happened to American actor Alec Baldwin in October 2021. We secretly hope that Grunberg also took inspiration by the editorial approach to take We Are Such Stuff beyond a catalogue of thirty years of stage photography and turn it into a play of its own.