Biografia

Doesburg was known as a director who could push his actors to great heights. He said about his love for actors in the newspaper "De Volkskrant". 'I like actors. Regardless of their quirks and instructions, they are sensitive, fluent people, with a sense of humor and a rich imagination. The vulnerability that results from this blend of properties often thaws me.

His directing is characterized by meticulous choreography, quickly edited scenes, minimalist scenography and a blackly humorous view of human tragedy.

After leaving The Hague, Doesburg directed performances for independent producers such as Senf, Hummelinck Stuurman and DeLaMar Producties. In total he was involved in more than seventy theater productions.

He was director and artistic director at the National Theater in The Hague for more than 20 years. Doesburg started at the Het Nationale Toneel in 1993, with Decadence by Steven Berkoff.

Ever since he graduated from the Amsterdam directing course in 1988, Doesburg stormed the theater field in a tumultuous manner. His intended graduation performance The Dirt, the City and the Death of Rainer Werner Fassbinder caused a lot of commotion: Jewish demonstrators prevented the performance due to the allegedly anti-Semitic nature of the play and actor Jules Croiset pretended to have been kidnapped in protest. Ultimately, Doesburg graduated with Harold Pinter's Deception. Novellist Harry Mulisch would dedicate in 2000 his Book Week Gift The Theater, the Letter and the Truth (Het theater, de brief en de waarheid) to the affair.