Review: A Night with Queen Angelito is a spiritual journey to a safe place where no one feels lonely

Black fur coat, ditto sunglasses, nails stroking the microphone stand. On a round plateau, in the middle of a luminous tube construction, ‘Ntianu Stuger transforms the Klein Bellevue room into a sultry nightclub.

As Queen Angelito, she takes the audience on a spiritual journey, revealing to us the cosmic potential. “If you give love, the universe will just multiply it.” The piece creates a sense of community: a safe place where no one feels lonely. The delightful music by Rui Reis Maia accentuates this: sometimes light-hearted, then heavy, packed with Eartha Kitt classics.

Stuger controls everything down to the last detail: text, presence, timing.

A guy like a cream puff

Under the sublime direction of Izaline Calister, she effortlessly blends English and Dutch with clever jokes and references. ‘Sjoerrrd’, the cutie across the aisle, becomes the target of her iconic rolling R. She massages her words deep into your amygdala – the brain region that codes emotion – to tickle you, tease you, and if necessary, wink at you. to spit.

Vulnerable is a passage about her broken heart. “I’d rather inject pure heroin into my clitoris than feel myself melt on your warm tongue one more time.” Whether it concerns your own experience or a mix of fact and fiction is left open, but the emotion is palpable right down to your little toes. He, a guy like a cream puff, made her experience heaven, and broke her. But hey, fuck that, because self-love trumps everything.

The Netherlands is a nice country, but we are simply too small for this grande lady from Zaandam. In 2025 we will see her as a permanent ensemble member at International Theater Amsterdam, after which I think she can go far beyond national borders. In addition to actresses like Zendaya and Emma Stone. Don’t miss her: Stuger is unstoppable.