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Dans L'Engrenage
22 Aug '19
We all know how difficult it can be to find your place in this society. The struggle to get there. The struggle to stay there. Getting past rules and conventions; past the ‘public interest’. Ignoring the individual, ignoring the prohibitions – putting everything into getting ahead.
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The cherry orchard
22 Aug '19 to 19 Jan '20
After having stayed in Paris for several years, the widow Ranevskaya returns to her family home in Russia. She encounters a changed world. The family’s debts have become so great that the house and estate will have to be auctioned. Businessman Lopakhin sees a way out. He proposes to cut down th...
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The Three Musketeers
02 Jul '19 to 31 Aug '19
Each summer it’s getting quiet in the theatre district around the Leidseplein. In these weeks we are happy to guide you the open air theatre the Amsterdamse Bostheater. Good theatre underneath the stars, by theatre companies which you could also meet in our theatre during the regular season.
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Outwitting the devil
28 Aug '19 to 29 Aug '19
Everywhere humanity goes, they leave an indelible mark on their surroundings that lasts for centuries. Master choreographer Akram Khan and six dancers go in search of fragments of wisdom from ancient times.
125 jaar schouwburg
Meer ITA–ensemble
ITA–ensemble premières 19|20
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Freud
18 Sep '19 to 30 Nov '19
In the late 1950s, French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre wrote The Freud Scenario, at the request of Hollywood director John Huston. Sartre is completely immersed in the subject, that he writes a script for a seven hour movie. Huston reduces the many hundreds of pages to a two-hour film. Because ...
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The Homecoming
09 Oct '19 to 30 Nov '19
Following on from Uit het leven van marionetten, Nanouk Leopold is now directing the ITA ensemble in The Homecoming, one of the most frequently performed plays by English playwright and Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter.
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Children of Nora
01 Apr '20 to 17 May '20
Everyone knows about the argument - the big argument, the ferocious, final argument, the one that ends the relationship.
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The good hope
13 May '20 to 21 Jun '20
Simon Stone has relocated the central fishing village in Op hoop van zegen to the arrival hall of an airport, where family and friends await the return of their loved ones. With fast, razor-sharp dialogue, he transforms the ultimate Dutch drama classic into a story from and about our time.
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Who Killed My Father
01 Apr '20 to 17 May '20
Young writer Édouard Louis (1992) is the greatest literary sensation in France since Michel Houellebecq. With his autobiographical debut The End of Eddy, he looked back on his tormented youth as a young gay man in the forgotten underclass of society: the north of France, plagued by unemployment.
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Mary said what she said
19 Sep '19 to 22 Sep '19
Ever inventive, Robert Wilson offers great Isabelle Huppert the throne of Mary, Queen of Scotland, the queen who lost her crown because of her passions. Mary is a woman who fought the forces of history to control her destiny. The day before her execution, she is still fighting.
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A quiet evening of dance
13 Nov '19 to 16 Nov '19
A programme to discover the versatility of dance innovator William Forsythe.
