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ITA & the Coronavirus
At the press conference on Friday, 14 January 2022, it was announced that theatres will not be allowed to receive audiences until 25 January in order to combat the rising corona figures in solidarity.
Unfortunately, this has forced us to cancel all performances up to and including 25 January 2022. Ticket buyers will receive a personal e-mail regarding the processing of their ticket(s) as soon as possible.
We realise that this period of uncertainty is causing some inconvenience and hope for your understanding in these exceptional circumstances.
May we thank you in advance for your patience and, above all, thank you for joining us in fighting this virus.
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oedipus
28 Jan '22 to 07 Feb '22
British director Robert Icke - Ibsen Artist in Residence at ITA - is known for his high-profile adaptations of classical pieces. With the ITA ensemble he made a modern version of Sophocles' Oedipus, in which Oedipus is a politician in the 21st century who finds out the greatest secret of his life.
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Battles and metamorphoses of a woman
09 Sep '21 to 22 May '22
One day, Édouard Louis finds a photo of his mother from twenty years ago. A happy young woman, full of hopes, full of dreams. But Édouard only knows his mother to be completely unhappy, trapped in the humdrum life of a housewife.
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The Hours
20 Oct '21 to 20 Feb '22
De uren (The hours) takes place on one day in the lives of three women, at three different moments in the 20th century: a book publisher, a housewife and the third is the writer Virginia Woolf. All three struggle with the question how to be yourself in a world that is tight like a straitjacket.
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The Magic Mountain
13 Apr '22 to 01 May '22
Young Hans Castorp goes to a sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland, to visit his cousin. He plans to spend 3 weeks with him there, but will end up staying for 7 years. He meets a collection of eccentric figures. Through these encounters he slowly acquires a layered image of contradicting views on life.
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The doctor
09 Sep '21 to 22 May '22
Robert Icke, the great talent of British theatre, will be our resident director for the next few years. He adapts classics in his own personal and radical way. As he did with Oedipus and Children of Nora at ITA. Now, he is making a contemporary adaptation of Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler.
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Children of Nora
Nora slams the door of her house, ending her marriage. It became one of the most famous final scenes in theater history. Robert Icke wrote and directed a sequel in which he shows how Nora's choices affect her children.
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Cliënt E. Busken
13 Sep '21 to 25 May '22
Maria Kraakman will make her debut as director with Cliënt E. Busken, a monologue played by Gijs Scholten van Aschat and musician Jip van den Dool. The text is based on the latest novel by Jeroen Brouwers.
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age of rage
In Age of Rage, Ivo van Hove tells a primordial story of how revenge haunts and wrecks successive generations. This performance is in line with earlier large-scale social productions such as Roman tragedies and Kings of war.
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medea
For 24 centuries, writers and theater makers have told the story of the daughter of the king, Medea, who is rejected by her husband and subsequently kills her children. Simon Stone mixes Euripides' play with the true story of Debora Green, an American woman who killed her children in the 1990s.
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The things that pass
After The hidden force, Ivo van Hove made a second adaptation of a novel by Couperus: The things that pass, this time a coproduction with Toneelhuis (Antwerp).
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oedipus
28 Jan '22 to 07 Feb '22
British director Robert Icke - Ibsen Artist in Residence at ITA - is known for his high-profile adaptations of classical pieces. With the ITA ensemble he made a modern version of Sophocles' Oedipus, in which Oedipus is a politician in the 21st century who finds out the greatest secret of his life.
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Moord met een grote M (12+)
03 Feb '22 to 27 May '22
De Spelersfederatie and de Theatertroep are joining forces with director Pieter Kramer.
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A seat at the table
05 Feb '22
In 2019, A Seat at the Table had a successful theatre tour with sold-out halls. The performance was named one of the ten best productions of that year by the Dutch Theatre Festival, nominated for the BNG Bank Theatre Prize and awarded the Toneelschrijfprijs (Stage writing prize).
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The Hours
20 Oct '21 to 20 Feb '22
De uren (The hours) takes place on one day in the lives of three women, at three different moments in the 20th century: a book publisher, a housewife and the third is the writer Virginia Woolf. All three struggle with the question how to be yourself in a world that is tight like a straitjacket.
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The Little Mermaid (8+)
12 Feb '22 to 13 Feb '22
Musical and enchanting theatre performance for the whole family.
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Qui a tué mon père
19 Feb '22 to 21 Feb '22
Édouard Louis, directed by Thomas Ostermeier, is appearing for the first time as a performer in one of his own works.
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Im Herzen der Gewalt
23 Feb '22 to 25 Feb '22
In his novel History of Violence, Édouard Louis reconstructs the night of the main character’s rape and abuse.
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Battles and metamorphoses of a woman
09 Sep '21 to 22 May '22
One day, Édouard Louis finds a photo of his mother from twenty years ago. A happy young woman, full of hopes, full of dreams. But Édouard only knows his mother to be completely unhappy, trapped in the humdrum life of a housewife.
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Valdens historie
27 Feb '22 to 28 Feb '22
Norwegian version of Histoire de la violence by Édouard Louis
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Performative reading The Interrogation + talk + film
02 Mar '22
With a performative reading, Édouard Louis and Milo Rau (Brandhaarden 2019) present the theatrical text The Interrogation.
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ITA on screen: Who Killed My Father
03 Mar '22
Ivo van Hove adapted Who Killed My Father, by literary sensation Édouard Louis, for the stage. Van Hove turned the very outspoken book into a monologue, especially for Hans Kesting.
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ITA on screen: Weg met Eddy Bellegueule
03 Mar '22
Édouard Louis took the world by storm with his successful autobiographical novel The End of Eddy. Without much frills but with ample dry wit, the novel tells the life story of a homosexual boy in an extremely homophobic environment.
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What is love
22 Mar '22
What is love is a musical, moving and thrilling theatre and dance performance by director Casper Vandeputte at Theater Utrecht and DOX: a scintillating exchange about love.
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The Magic Mountain
13 Apr '22 to 01 May '22
Young Hans Castorp goes to a sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland, to visit his cousin. He plans to spend 3 weeks with him there, but will end up staying for 7 years. He meets a collection of eccentric figures. Through these encounters he slowly acquires a layered image of contradicting views on life.
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Over hoop
15 Apr '22 to 30 Apr '22
Growing up with the feeling of being 4-0 behind, hopelessly at odds with your own thoughts. Becoming an adult in a world that cries out anxiously that it is neglected. What are you waiting for? Every day is a new beginning and the world you live in is your world.
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Leedvermaak trilogie
28 Apr '22 to 01 May '22
Legendary theatre marathon to be seen in the Netherlands for the first time. Director Eric de Vroedt and a cast of great actors perform the legendary plays Leedvermaak (1982), Rijgdraad (1995) and Simon (2001) by one of the country's most acclaimed playwrights: Judith Herzberg.
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Slaughterhouse Five
07 May '22 to 08 May '22
There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut's classic, is about American soldier Billy Pilgrim. At the end of WW II, he barely survives the horrific bombing of Dresden. Since then, Billy has become dislodged in time.
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The doctor
09 Sep '21 to 22 May '22
Robert Icke, the great talent of British theatre, will be our resident director for the next few years. He adapts classics in his own personal and radical way. As he did with Oedipus and Children of Nora at ITA. Now, he is making a contemporary adaptation of Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler.
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Witch Hunt
13 May '22 to 16 May '22
In the large, musical performance Witch Hunt, an archaeologist (Bien de Moor) goes in search of the dark history of femicide and infanticide in a small, remote village. This is where the past literally comes to life.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
26 May '22
Between dusk and dawn, Elf King Oberon's kingdom turns into a playground for love. With a drop of magic potion, he influences the love life of his citizens and wife Tytania. Infatuation, infidelity, ecstasy, sadness and reconciliation fill the night.
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Eindspel
28 May '22 to 29 May '22
In Eindspel (Endgame), Samuel Beckett shows the senselessness of existence. With great humour, he shows how absurd our lives really are. Erik Whien directs an impressive cast in Eindspel: Hans Croiset (winner of the Louis d'Or), René van 't Hof, Cas Enklaar and Elsje de Wijn.
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Uit het hoofd
05 Jun '22 to 06 Jun '22
Uit Het Hoofd is a performance about a life that resembles that of Loes Luca. Coincidentally, the same Loes Luca plays an actress who considers her life. She is assisted by a young actress who plays her prompter and is therefore called Oortje (Little ear).
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Gardenia - 10 years later
02 Jun '22 to 04 Jun '22
25 June 2010. The curtain of NTGent opens, and Gardenia premiers. Inspired by the penetrating film Yo soy asi (by Dolz), in which the closing of a transvestite cabaret in Barcelona becomes the framework for a glimpse into the private lives of a memorable group...
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Swan Lakes
09 Feb '22 to 10 Feb '22
“The legend is back with a twist. The world's favourite ballet is still a crowd favourite.”
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Wasted Skin
11 Feb '22
Being touched is a primary necessity of life – you feel that you exist. Skin hunger, that's what the craving for physical intimacy is also called. Right now, with the coronavirus, the open-mindedness of physical contact has been affected. What does this do to us?
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Traces left within
15 Feb '22 to 16 Feb '22
The return of Jiří Kylián's Toss of a Dice (2005) and two new creations by Marco Goecke and Marina Mascarell. The NDT 1 programme is accompanied live by The Ballet Orchestra.
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CONFETTI (6+)
09 Mar '22 to 10 Mar '22
With Confetti, Introdans presents a colourful palette of dance: from urban to classical. The company celebrates a golden party for a whole season, because Introdans celebrates 50 years: this performance is a “must see” for everyone from 6 years old.
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What is love
22 Mar '22
What is love is a musical, moving and thrilling theatre and dance performance by director Casper Vandeputte at Theater Utrecht and DOX: a scintillating exchange about love.
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JOY, ENJOY JOY
23 Mar '22
Joy Enjoy Joy is a performance that celebrates the flow of life. A constant, driving and pulsating flow, always on the move, no standing still.
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The Square2
03 May '22
In this second edition, an international company of young dance makers and an experienced musician go on an adventure together.
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Witch Hunt
13 May '22 to 16 May '22
In the large, musical performance Witch Hunt, an archaeologist (Bien de Moor) goes in search of the dark history of femicide and infanticide in a small, remote village. This is where the past literally comes to life.
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Sudden and Suspended
24 May '22 to 25 May '22
In NDT 2's Sudden and Suspended, three different choreographic voices come together. Fluid movements and strong rhythms are translated into moments of hysteria and manic isolation that create an increasing sense of urgency.
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Revisor
26 May '22 to 28 May '22
When choreographer Crystal Pite and theatre maker Jonathon Young work together, the result is theatrical fireworks that reverberate for a long time. After Betroffenheit, seen during Julidans 2018 in Amsterdam, they now take a vintage political comedy as their starting point.
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Gardenia - 10 years later
02 Jun '22 to 04 Jun '22
25 June 2010. The curtain of NTGent opens, and Gardenia premiers. Inspired by the penetrating film Yo soy asi (by Dolz), in which the closing of a transvestite cabaret in Barcelona becomes the framework for a glimpse into the private lives of a memorable group...
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Moord met een grote M (12+)
03 Feb '22 to 27 May '22
De Spelersfederatie and de Theatertroep are joining forces with director Pieter Kramer.
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The Little Mermaid (8+)
12 Feb '22 to 13 Feb '22
Musical and enchanting theatre performance for the whole family.
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CONFETTI (6+)
09 Mar '22 to 10 Mar '22
With Confetti, Introdans presents a colourful palette of dance: from urban to classical. The company celebrates a golden party for a whole season, because Introdans celebrates 50 years: this performance is a “must see” for everyone from 6 years old.
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Nelson Mandela lecture 2022
06 Feb '22
#ImagineMandela-Live! brings you a rich cultural programme with dance, music, poetry and video. Kenyan author and opinion maker Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor will deliver the lecture. A thought-provoking exercise imagining a world of equality and justice.
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Sign of the Times: Édouard Louis
22 Feb '22
We talk to Édouard Louis about the dividing lines between the elite and working class, between the opposition and the establishment. How do you maintain radicality and independence as a writer when the world embraces your work?
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Performative reading The Interrogation + talk + film
02 Mar '22
With a performative reading, Édouard Louis and Milo Rau (Brandhaarden 2019) present the theatrical text The Interrogation.
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Grote Kunstshow 2021
11 Mar '22 to 12 Mar '22
Bas Kosters, one of the Netherlands' most unique fashion artists, is the central figure in this special edition of De Grote Kunstshow. In an hour-and-a-half-long show, his fashion, drawings, dolls, tapestries and other highlights from Kosters' oeuvre are brought to life in a theatrical setting.
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Qui a tué mon père
19 Feb '22 to 21 Feb '22
Édouard Louis, directed by Thomas Ostermeier, is appearing for the first time as a performer in one of his own works.
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Im Herzen der Gewalt
23 Feb '22 to 25 Feb '22
In his novel History of Violence, Édouard Louis reconstructs the night of the main character’s rape and abuse.
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Sign of the Times: Édouard Louis
22 Feb '22
We talk to Édouard Louis about the dividing lines between the elite and working class, between the opposition and the establishment. How do you maintain radicality and independence as a writer when the world embraces your work?
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Battles and metamorphoses of a woman
09 Sep '21 to 22 May '22
One day, Édouard Louis finds a photo of his mother from twenty years ago. A happy young woman, full of hopes, full of dreams. But Édouard only knows his mother to be completely unhappy, trapped in the humdrum life of a housewife.
Close
Valdens historie
27 Feb '22 to 28 Feb '22
Norwegian version of Histoire de la violence by Édouard Louis
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Performative reading The Interrogation + talk + film
02 Mar '22
With a performative reading, Édouard Louis and Milo Rau (Brandhaarden 2019) present the theatrical text The Interrogation.
Close
ITA on screen: Who Killed My Father
03 Mar '22
Ivo van Hove adapted Who Killed My Father, by literary sensation Édouard Louis, for the stage. Van Hove turned the very outspoken book into a monologue, especially for Hans Kesting.
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ITA on screen: Weg met Eddy Bellegueule
03 Mar '22
Édouard Louis took the world by storm with his successful autobiographical novel The End of Eddy. Without much frills but with ample dry wit, the novel tells the life story of a homosexual boy in an extremely homophobic environment.
A valid COVID admission ticket
To visit performances in ITA you need a valid COVID admission ticket. This can be a negative test result, a vaccination certificate or proof that you have recovered from corona (proof of recovery). You must convert one of these into a QR code in the CoronaCheck app or a print via CoronaCheck.nl. Only then will you have a valid COVID admission ticket.
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Cliënt E. Busken
13 Sep '21 to 25 May '22
Maria Kraakman will make her debut as director with Cliënt E. Busken, a monologue played by Gijs Scholten van Aschat and musician Jip van den Dool. The text is based on the latest novel by Jeroen Brouwers.
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Who Killed My Father
11 Feb '22 to 12 Feb '22
Ivo van Hove adapted Who Killed My Father, by literary sensation Édouard Louis, for the stage. Van Hove turned the very outspoken book into a monologue, especially for Hans Kesting.
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dagboek van een verdwenene
22 Feb '22
The form of The diary of the one who disappeared is unique: a series of 22 songs for tenor and piano, with an addition of three songs in the middle for a small choirof women and a mezzosoprano representing the gypsy girl Zefka. Ivo van Hove directs this special production.
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