Assembly Hall
"Making the mundane astonishing"- The Guardian ★★★★★
"A beautiful, mind-boggling triumph" - The Telegraph ★★★★★
"A beautiful, mind-boggling triumph" - The Telegraph ★★★★★
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HEAT
Theater Rotterdam / Davy Pieters
18 Apr '24 to 19 Apr '24
What does heat sound like? Heat shimmers, it creaks and vibrates. In the sweltering performance HEAT, theatre-maker Davy Pieters wonders how we deal with heat, in ourselves and around us.
Language NP
Language no problem
Toneelschuur Producties / Mateusz Staniak / Internationaal Theater Amsterdam
Theater
Huis van Troje
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Huis van Troje
Toneelschuur Producties / Mateusz Staniak / Internationaal Theater Amsterdam
02 Mar '24 to 24 Apr '24
The Trojan War is a myth, but the fall of Troy is a fact. But where do the stories begin and the facts cease to exist?
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Study day Theatre design
ITA Academy
22 Apr '24
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam (ITA) offers training courses for teachers who want to learn more about their subject and inspire themselves through research and interaction with other teachers.
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Assembly Hall
Kidd Pivot / Crystal Pite & Jonathon Young
22 Apr '24 to 24 Apr '24
The latest production by the Canadian company Kidd Pivot, founded by choreographer Crystal Pite, celebrates its Dutch premiere at ITA in April.
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Birds of a Kind
ITA Ensemble / Alize Zandwijk
23 Apr '24 to 03 May '24
When the German-Jewish Eitan and the American-Arab Wahida happen to meet in the library of New York, they fall in love instantly. But is their relationship likely to succeed?
Language NP
Language no problem
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam
Perspective programmes
City Talks Amsterdam: AI Urbanism
Language NP
Language no problem
ICK Dans Amsterdam / Emio Greco & Pieter C. Scholten
Dance
WE, the EYES
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WE, the EYES
ICK Dans Amsterdam / Emio Greco & Pieter C. Scholten
02 May '24
WE, the EYES aims to question perspectives in a society in crisis and claims change.
Language NP
Language no problem
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam
Perspective programmes
Public tour (in Dutch)
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Public tour (in Dutch)
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam
02 Sep '23 to 06 Jul '24
Every first Saturday of the month, you can join the public tour (in Dutch) of the building and get a peek behind all the doors that would otherwise remain closed.
Language NP
Language no problem
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam
Perspective programmes
Public Tour (in English)
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Public Tour (in English)
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam
02 Sep '23 to 06 Jul '24
Every first Saturday of the month, you can join the public tour (in English) of the building and get a peek behind all the doors that would otherwise remain closed.
Language NP
Language no problem
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam / Theater na de Dam
Perspective programmes
Nacht Na de Dam
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Nacht Na de Dam
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam / Theater na de Dam
04 May '24
During Nacht Na de Dam, the audience and theatre-makers from all corners of the city gather at Internationaal Theater Amsterdam to meet and reflect on the various performances.
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The Doctor
ITA Ensemble / Robert Icke
05 May '24 to 17 May '24
Robert Icke has a warm heart for the classics, which he adapts in his own personal and radical way. Once again, he is making a contemporary adaptation, this time of Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler.
Language NP
Language no problem
Het Nationale Theater / Eric de Vroedt
Perspective programmes
De Late Late Tante Beb Show
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Brown Sugar Baby
Het Nationale Theater / Eric de Vroedt
07 May '24 to 08 May '24
Swinging and nerve-wracking performance about an Indian jazz band in the turbulent final days of the Dutch colony.
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Medea's Children
NTGent / Milo Rau
10 May '24 to 12 May '24
With Medea’s Children, Milo Rau takes a new, deep look at the role of children in theatre.
Language NP
Language no problem
Bab Ad-daar / NITE
Perspective programmes
A NITE with Bab Ad-Daar: The Underground
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ITA Live Encore: The Hidden Force
ITA–Ensemble
11 May '24
The hidden force is an enthralling story about the misunderstandings and incomprehension between cultures, as well as between close relatives.
Language NP
Language no problem
ITA Academy / Theater LeBelle en Stichting Cordaan
Theater
Theater LeBelle van Stichting Cordaan spelen Het portret in ITA Toneelbeeld
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Theater LeBelle van Stichting Cordaan spelen Het portret in ITA Toneelbeeld
ITA Academy / Theater LeBelle en Stichting Cordaan
12 May '24
The Portrait provides an insight into the complexity that comes with being part of a family.
Language NP
Language no problem
NITE / Club Guy & Roni / Asko|Schönberg / HIIIT / Guy Weizman
Theater
The Underground
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The Underground
NITE / Club Guy & Roni / Asko|Schönberg / HIIIT / Guy Weizman
13 May '24 to 15 May '24
This inspiring NITE event is a rollercoaster blend of theatre, dance, and music.
Close
Klytaimnestra
tg STAN / Olympique Dramatique / Toneelhuis
17 May '24 to 18 May '24
A questioning of contemporary (gender) identities and truths. With as its formative guide: where does intuition take over from reason?
Close
Hatched Ensemble
Mamela Nyamza
20 May '24 to 21 May '24
HATCHED ENSEMBLE is the extension of Mamela Nyamza’s original and highly acclaimed solo work HATCHED created in 2008, an autobiographical work which the Choreographer reflected on her life as a mother, lesbian and artist.
Close
SPRING
Introdans
21 May '24 to 22 May '24
To celebrate spring and life, Introdans presents Spring, a programme centred around the work of Mauro Bigonzetti.
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Forward Festival Amsterdam
Forward Creatives
23 May '24 to 24 May '24
Renowned creative conference Forward Festival is expanding to Amsterdam for its 2024 season.
Language NP
Language no problem
ITA Academy / AchterdebergAcademie en Visio Amsterdam
Theater
AchterdebergAcademie en Visio Amsterdam Spelen Omstanders in ITA Toneelbeeld
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AchterdebergAcademie en Visio Amsterdam Spelen Omstanders in ITA Toneelbeeld
ITA Academy / AchterdebergAcademie en Visio Amsterdam
25 May '24
Omstanders, after Medea, is a contemporary adaptation based on improvisations by the players. The performance is a collaboration between AchterdebergAcademie and Visio Amsterdam and is performed by a diverse group of fully sighted, partially sighted and blind actors.
Close
ITA Live Encore: The Doctor
ITA–Ensemble
25 May '24
Racial prejudices and hidden agendas make The Doctor a thriller in which conflicting views about ourselves and the world form an explosive cocktail.
Close
Panic Room
Theater Utrecht / Floor Houwink ten Cate
28 May '24 to 29 May '24
Panic Room is an intimate and corporeal performance about dying and saying goodbye. Where does the right to the longest life end and responsibility for another's death begin?
Close
Elements of Freestyle
ISH Dance Collective
28 May '24
A spectacular show that includes skating, freerunning and BMX, after which you will see urban arts with new eyes.
Close
Prima Facie
ITA Ensemble / Eline Arbo
28 Nov '23 to 14 Jun '24
Prima Facie is a cutting monologue that caused a stir on West End and Broadway, and has been broadcast worldwide in cinemas by National Theatre Live.
Language NP
Language no problem
Haagsch College
Perspective programmes
Europa Draait Door LIVE - The Election Show
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Europa Draait Door LIVE - The Election Show
Haagsch College
01 Jun '24
How fast should Ukraine join the EU? Do the plans to tackle climate change go too far or not far enough? And how do we protect Europe and the world with a hostile Russia and a rising China? Never before has so much been at stake in the European Elections.
Close
ITA Live Encore: Roman Tragedies
ITA Ensemble / Ivo van Hove
08 Jun '24
In Roman tragedies, Ivo van Hove and Jan Versweyveld have created a unique arena in which Shakespeare speaks about our time more than ever and the political game in all its facets.
Close
Dans la mesure de l'impossible
Tiago Rodrigues
09 Jun '24 to 11 Jun '24
Tiago Rodrigues based his piece on the stories of aid workers in disaster areas. His pure, sincere approach makes for an intense, empathic experience of an extreme reality that most of us only know from the news.
Close
Eu não sou só eu em mim
Grupa Cena 11
14 Jun '24 to 16 Jun '24
One of Brazil’s most important and daring dance companies will present an energetic piece that questions and affirms identity and unicity through dance, technology and philosophy.
Close
Signal to Noise
Forced Entertainment
16 Jun '24 to 18 Jun '24
Legendary British theatre company plays with text, music and physical action in new work. Both light and disconcerting, comical and deadly serious.
Close
ALFA
Wunderbaum
20 Jun '24 to 22 Jun '24
ALFA sees a group of European Alfa Romeo aficionados come together as a club to share their passion for the Italian car brand. They talk about the club newsletter, the contents of the event calendar and the annual trip abroad.
Close
Hamlet – In the Folds of Time
Christiane Jatahy
21 Jun '24 to 23 Jun '24
In Christiane Jatahy’s unconventional interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic, Hamlet wakes up, after four centuries of being the quintessence of male melancholy, as a grown woman looking to get things straight with her past.
Close
ITA Live Encore: Ibsen House
ITA–Ensemble
22 Jun '24
Based on Ibsen, Simon Stone wrote and directed a grand family saga about the troublesome but inevitable coexistence of different generations under one roof.
Language NP
Language no problem
Trajal Harrell, Schauspielhaus Zürich Dance Ensemble
Dance
The Romeo
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The Romeo
Trajal Harrell, Schauspielhaus Zürich Dance Ensemble
25 Jun '24 to 27 Jun '24
Picture a single dance for everyone, inspired by a world as it might have been. Choreographer Trajal Harrell’s The Romeo imagines this dance for people of all origins, genders and generations, of all tempers and moods.
Close
The Second Woman
Anna Breckon & Nat Randall
28 Jun '24
In The Second Woman Georgina Verbaan repeats a single scene 100 times over a 24-hour period. Starring opposite her are 100 different male participants drawn from the local community. In each scene the two performers meet on the stage for the first time.
HEAT
THEATRE
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HEAT
Theater Rotterdam / Davy Pieters
18 Apr '24 to 19 Apr '24
What does heat sound like? Heat shimmers, it creaks and vibrates. In the sweltering performance HEAT, theatre-maker Davy Pieters wonders how we deal with heat, in ourselves and around us.
Language NP
Language no problem
Toneelschuur Producties / Mateusz Staniak / Internationaal Theater Amsterdam
Theater
Huis van Troje
Close
Huis van Troje
Toneelschuur Producties / Mateusz Staniak / Internationaal Theater Amsterdam
02 Mar '24 to 24 Apr '24
The Trojan War is a myth, but the fall of Troy is a fact. But where do the stories begin and the facts cease to exist?
Close
Birds of a Kind
ITA Ensemble / Alize Zandwijk
23 Apr '24 to 03 May '24
When the German-Jewish Eitan and the American-Arab Wahida happen to meet in the library of New York, they fall in love instantly. But is their relationship likely to succeed?
Close
The Doctor
ITA Ensemble / Robert Icke
05 May '24 to 17 May '24
Robert Icke has a warm heart for the classics, which he adapts in his own personal and radical way. Once again, he is making a contemporary adaptation, this time of Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler.
Language NP
Language no problem
Het Nationale Theater / Eric de Vroedt
Perspective programmes
De Late Late Tante Beb Show
Close
Brown Sugar Baby
Het Nationale Theater / Eric de Vroedt
07 May '24 to 08 May '24
Swinging and nerve-wracking performance about an Indian jazz band in the turbulent final days of the Dutch colony.
Close
Medea's Children
NTGent / Milo Rau
10 May '24 to 12 May '24
With Medea’s Children, Milo Rau takes a new, deep look at the role of children in theatre.
Close
ITA Live Encore: The Hidden Force
ITA–Ensemble
11 May '24
The hidden force is an enthralling story about the misunderstandings and incomprehension between cultures, as well as between close relatives.
Language NP
Language no problem
ITA Academy / Theater LeBelle en Stichting Cordaan
Theater
Theater LeBelle van Stichting Cordaan spelen Het portret in ITA Toneelbeeld
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Theater LeBelle van Stichting Cordaan spelen Het portret in ITA Toneelbeeld
ITA Academy / Theater LeBelle en Stichting Cordaan
12 May '24
The Portrait provides an insight into the complexity that comes with being part of a family.
Language NP
Language no problem
NITE / Club Guy & Roni / Asko|Schönberg / HIIIT / Guy Weizman
Theater
The Underground
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The Underground
NITE / Club Guy & Roni / Asko|Schönberg / HIIIT / Guy Weizman
13 May '24 to 15 May '24
This inspiring NITE event is a rollercoaster blend of theatre, dance, and music.
Close
Klytaimnestra
tg STAN / Olympique Dramatique / Toneelhuis
17 May '24 to 18 May '24
A questioning of contemporary (gender) identities and truths. With as its formative guide: where does intuition take over from reason?
Language NP
Language no problem
ITA Academy / AchterdebergAcademie en Visio Amsterdam
Theater
AchterdebergAcademie en Visio Amsterdam Spelen Omstanders in ITA Toneelbeeld
Close
AchterdebergAcademie en Visio Amsterdam Spelen Omstanders in ITA Toneelbeeld
ITA Academy / AchterdebergAcademie en Visio Amsterdam
25 May '24
Omstanders, after Medea, is a contemporary adaptation based on improvisations by the players. The performance is a collaboration between AchterdebergAcademie and Visio Amsterdam and is performed by a diverse group of fully sighted, partially sighted and blind actors.
Close
ITA Live Encore: The Doctor
ITA–Ensemble
25 May '24
Racial prejudices and hidden agendas make The Doctor a thriller in which conflicting views about ourselves and the world form an explosive cocktail.
Close
Panic Room
Theater Utrecht / Floor Houwink ten Cate
28 May '24 to 29 May '24
Panic Room is an intimate and corporeal performance about dying and saying goodbye. Where does the right to the longest life end and responsibility for another's death begin?
Close
Prima Facie
ITA Ensemble / Eline Arbo
28 Nov '23 to 14 Jun '24
Prima Facie is a cutting monologue that caused a stir on West End and Broadway, and has been broadcast worldwide in cinemas by National Theatre Live.
Close
ITA Live Encore: Roman Tragedies
ITA Ensemble / Ivo van Hove
08 Jun '24
In Roman tragedies, Ivo van Hove and Jan Versweyveld have created a unique arena in which Shakespeare speaks about our time more than ever and the political game in all its facets.
Close
Dans la mesure de l'impossible
Tiago Rodrigues
09 Jun '24 to 11 Jun '24
Tiago Rodrigues based his piece on the stories of aid workers in disaster areas. His pure, sincere approach makes for an intense, empathic experience of an extreme reality that most of us only know from the news.
Close
ALFA
Wunderbaum
20 Jun '24 to 22 Jun '24
ALFA sees a group of European Alfa Romeo aficionados come together as a club to share their passion for the Italian car brand. They talk about the club newsletter, the contents of the event calendar and the annual trip abroad.
Close
Hamlet – In the Folds of Time
Christiane Jatahy
21 Jun '24 to 23 Jun '24
In Christiane Jatahy’s unconventional interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic, Hamlet wakes up, after four centuries of being the quintessence of male melancholy, as a grown woman looking to get things straight with her past.
Close
ITA Live Encore: Ibsen House
ITA–Ensemble
22 Jun '24
Based on Ibsen, Simon Stone wrote and directed a grand family saga about the troublesome but inevitable coexistence of different generations under one roof.
Close
The Second Woman
Anna Breckon & Nat Randall
28 Jun '24
In The Second Woman Georgina Verbaan repeats a single scene 100 times over a 24-hour period. Starring opposite her are 100 different male participants drawn from the local community. In each scene the two performers meet on the stage for the first time.
Close
The Laws
ITA Ensemble / Eline Arbo
22 Aug '24 to 01 Sep '24
In her debut novel The Laws, Connie Palmen tells the story of a woman in search of herself. Seven encounters with seven men over seven years.
DANCE
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Assembly Hall
Kidd Pivot / Crystal Pite & Jonathon Young
22 Apr '24 to 24 Apr '24
The latest production by the Canadian company Kidd Pivot, founded by choreographer Crystal Pite, celebrates its Dutch premiere at ITA in April.
Language NP
Language no problem
ICK Dans Amsterdam / Emio Greco & Pieter C. Scholten
Dance
WE, the EYES
Close
WE, the EYES
ICK Dans Amsterdam / Emio Greco & Pieter C. Scholten
02 May '24
WE, the EYES aims to question perspectives in a society in crisis and claims change.
Close
Hatched Ensemble
Mamela Nyamza
20 May '24 to 21 May '24
HATCHED ENSEMBLE is the extension of Mamela Nyamza’s original and highly acclaimed solo work HATCHED created in 2008, an autobiographical work which the Choreographer reflected on her life as a mother, lesbian and artist.
Close
SPRING
Introdans
21 May '24 to 22 May '24
To celebrate spring and life, Introdans presents Spring, a programme centred around the work of Mauro Bigonzetti.
Close
Elements of Freestyle
ISH Dance Collective
28 May '24
A spectacular show that includes skating, freerunning and BMX, after which you will see urban arts with new eyes.
Close
Eu não sou só eu em mim
Grupa Cena 11
14 Jun '24 to 16 Jun '24
One of Brazil’s most important and daring dance companies will present an energetic piece that questions and affirms identity and unicity through dance, technology and philosophy.
Language NP
Language no problem
Trajal Harrell, Schauspielhaus Zürich Dance Ensemble
Dance
The Romeo
Close
The Romeo
Trajal Harrell, Schauspielhaus Zürich Dance Ensemble
25 Jun '24 to 27 Jun '24
Picture a single dance for everyone, inspired by a world as it might have been. Choreographer Trajal Harrell’s The Romeo imagines this dance for people of all origins, genders and generations, of all tempers and moods.
Close
ITA Live Encore: The Hidden Force
ITA–Ensemble
11 May '24
The hidden force is an enthralling story about the misunderstandings and incomprehension between cultures, as well as between close relatives.
Close
ITA Live Encore: The Doctor
ITA–Ensemble
25 May '24
Racial prejudices and hidden agendas make The Doctor a thriller in which conflicting views about ourselves and the world form an explosive cocktail.
Close
ITA Live Encore: Roman Tragedies
ITA Ensemble / Ivo van Hove
08 Jun '24
In Roman tragedies, Ivo van Hove and Jan Versweyveld have created a unique arena in which Shakespeare speaks about our time more than ever and the political game in all its facets.
Close
ITA Live Encore: Ibsen House
ITA–Ensemble
22 Jun '24
Based on Ibsen, Simon Stone wrote and directed a grand family saga about the troublesome but inevitable coexistence of different generations under one roof.
A VIEW ON THE WORLD
Close
Study day Theatre design
ITA Academy
22 Apr '24
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam (ITA) offers training courses for teachers who want to learn more about their subject and inspire themselves through research and interaction with other teachers.
Language NP
Language no problem
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam
Perspective programmes
City Talks Amsterdam: AI Urbanism
Language NP
Language no problem
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam
Perspective programmes
Public tour (in Dutch)
Close
Public tour (in Dutch)
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam
02 Sep '23 to 06 Jul '24
Every first Saturday of the month, you can join the public tour (in Dutch) of the building and get a peek behind all the doors that would otherwise remain closed.
Language NP
Language no problem
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam
Perspective programmes
Public Tour (in English)
Close
Public Tour (in English)
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam
02 Sep '23 to 06 Jul '24
Every first Saturday of the month, you can join the public tour (in English) of the building and get a peek behind all the doors that would otherwise remain closed.
Language NP
Language no problem
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam / Theater na de Dam
Perspective programmes
Nacht Na de Dam
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Nacht Na de Dam
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam / Theater na de Dam
04 May '24
During Nacht Na de Dam, the audience and theatre-makers from all corners of the city gather at Internationaal Theater Amsterdam to meet and reflect on the various performances.
Language NP
Language no problem
Het Nationale Theater / Eric de Vroedt
Perspective programmes
De Late Late Tante Beb Show
Language NP
Language no problem
Bab Ad-daar / NITE
Perspective programmes
A NITE with Bab Ad-Daar: The Underground
Language NP
Language no problem
ITA Academy / AchterdebergAcademie en Visio Amsterdam
Theater
AchterdebergAcademie en Visio Amsterdam Spelen Omstanders in ITA Toneelbeeld
Close
AchterdebergAcademie en Visio Amsterdam Spelen Omstanders in ITA Toneelbeeld
ITA Academy / AchterdebergAcademie en Visio Amsterdam
25 May '24
Omstanders, after Medea, is a contemporary adaptation based on improvisations by the players. The performance is a collaboration between AchterdebergAcademie and Visio Amsterdam and is performed by a diverse group of fully sighted, partially sighted and blind actors.
Language NP
Language no problem
Haagsch College
Perspective programmes
Europa Draait Door LIVE - The Election Show
Close
Europa Draait Door LIVE - The Election Show
Haagsch College
01 Jun '24
How fast should Ukraine join the EU? Do the plans to tackle climate change go too far or not far enough? And how do we protect Europe and the world with a hostile Russia and a rising China? Never before has so much been at stake in the European Elections.
Close
Eigen welzijn eerst
Haagsch College
02 Jul '24
Why has the middle class become increasingly susceptible to extreme ideas? And why has the ideal of progress given way to a penchant for self-preservation? In the theatre evening Eigen welzijn eerst, Roxane van Iperen shows how the need for security can derail into radical sentiments.
Holland Festival in ITA
Close
Dans la mesure de l'impossible
Tiago Rodrigues
09 Jun '24 to 11 Jun '24
Tiago Rodrigues based his piece on the stories of aid workers in disaster areas. His pure, sincere approach makes for an intense, empathic experience of an extreme reality that most of us only know from the news.
Close
Eu não sou só eu em mim
Grupa Cena 11
14 Jun '24 to 16 Jun '24
One of Brazil’s most important and daring dance companies will present an energetic piece that questions and affirms identity and unicity through dance, technology and philosophy.
Close
Signal to Noise
Forced Entertainment
16 Jun '24 to 18 Jun '24
Legendary British theatre company plays with text, music and physical action in new work. Both light and disconcerting, comical and deadly serious.
Close
ALFA
Wunderbaum
20 Jun '24 to 22 Jun '24
ALFA sees a group of European Alfa Romeo aficionados come together as a club to share their passion for the Italian car brand. They talk about the club newsletter, the contents of the event calendar and the annual trip abroad.
Close
Hamlet – In the Folds of Time
Christiane Jatahy
21 Jun '24 to 23 Jun '24
In Christiane Jatahy’s unconventional interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic, Hamlet wakes up, after four centuries of being the quintessence of male melancholy, as a grown woman looking to get things straight with her past.
Language NP
Language no problem
Trajal Harrell, Schauspielhaus Zürich Dance Ensemble
Dance
The Romeo
Close
The Romeo
Trajal Harrell, Schauspielhaus Zürich Dance Ensemble
25 Jun '24 to 27 Jun '24
Picture a single dance for everyone, inspired by a world as it might have been. Choreographer Trajal Harrell’s The Romeo imagines this dance for people of all origins, genders and generations, of all tempers and moods.
Close
The Second Woman
Anna Breckon & Nat Randall
28 Jun '24
In The Second Woman Georgina Verbaan repeats a single scene 100 times over a 24-hour period. Starring opposite her are 100 different male participants drawn from the local community. In each scene the two performers meet on the stage for the first time.
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