ROCKY HORROR SHOW
The most insane rock musical where anything goes!
To be seen July 27 - 31.
To be seen July 27 - 31.
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Hollandsch Glorie
29 Jun '21 to 28 Aug '21
A spectacular, humorous show dealing with Dutch history by Toneelgroep Oostpool in Amsterdamse Bostheater
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flight 49
11 Aug '21 to 21 Aug '21
Flight 49 brings people together after a plane crash. Strangers seek support from each other after the loss of their loved ones, friends, family members. The Australian director Simon Stone was inspired by motifs from Herman Heijermans' classic Op hoop van zegen.
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The Nether
24 Aug '21 to 26 Aug '21
Het Nationale Theater brings you the Dutch version of the critically acclaimed sci-fi thriller The Nether, directed by Nina Spijkers. We know Spijkers from her previous theatrical productions Laura H. and Temmen van de feeks. The Nether is like an episode of the Netflix series Black Mirror on stage.
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Beneden de rivieren
26 Aug '21 to 27 Aug '21
Beneden de rivieren premiered in 2002 with great success at Het Toneel Speelt with Hans Croiset as the father and Ger Thijs as his son. Now Hans Croiset plays the father again together with his own son: Julien Croiset.
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any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones
28 Aug '21 to 29 Aug '21
Jan Martens is a rising star in the international world of dance. The choreographer is motivated by his ability to see beauty in the incomplete human being. His dances are intense, physical, and tell a story. In this case: about the sense and nonsense of progress and about standing still as a f...
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Battles and metamorphoses of a woman
09 Sep '21 to 18 Sep '21
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 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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Cliënt E. Busken
13 Sep '21 to 12 Mar '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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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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Sleeping beauties
19 Jan '22 to 06 Feb '22
In the novel The House of the Sleeping Beauties by Japanese Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata, a man named Eguchi frequents a unique, secret place. Here, elderly and impotent men get to sleep next to young, naked women who have been sedated with sleeping pills.
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The Magic Mountain
12 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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flight 49
11 Aug '21 to 21 Aug '21
Flight 49 brings people together after a plane crash. Strangers seek support from each other after the loss of their loved ones, friends, family members. The Australian director Simon Stone was inspired by motifs from Herman Heijermans' classic Op hoop van zegen.
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who killed my father
02 Sep '21 to 21 Nov '21
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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A little life
29 Sep '21 to 02 Oct '21
No novel has captivated and moved millions of readers during the past few years like A little life by American author Hanya Yanagihara. Ivo van Hove adapted Yanagihara’s novel to theater and created a penetrating performance.
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FAMILY TREE MONOLOGUES
06 Oct '21 to 16 Oct '21
In a series of quickly sketched, short, comic and personal monologues, Joy Delima talks about her search for her roots and about her experiences as a young black woman in the Netherlands. She traces her roots and her own political awakening in the field of institutional racism and exclusion.
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Ibsen house
05 Nov '21 to 13 Nov '21
Based on Ibsen, Simon Stone writes and directs a grand family epic about the troublesome but inevitable coexistence of different generations under one roof.
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medea
08 Dec '21 to 23 Dec '21
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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age of rage
08 Dec '21 to 23 Dec '21
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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Children of Nora
06 Jan '22 to 16 Jan '22
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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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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Dutch Delight
19 Aug '21
At the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, dance festival Summer Dance Forever presents an eclectic mix of hip-hop dance from the Netherlands. In the theatre, the Eindhoven breakdance crew The Ruggeds will explore the boundaries of their dance style.
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Going Global
20 Aug '21
The international hip-hop festival Summer Dance Forever is going across the border! The festival presents an impressive blend of international dance performances. Let yourself be inspired by the rich hip-hip culture from other countries.
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Through the Grapevine
02 Sep '21
Performers Alexander Vantournhout and Axel Guérin show off their bodies, stripped of any frills, in a quirky pas-de-deux. With great effort and concentration, the two seek balance, equilibrium and harmony without shying away from humor.
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Het eind van het begin van het einde (8+)
05 Sep '21 to 06 Sep '21
This family show for everyone from the age of eight starts where normally all others end: actors going home and all things packed in the truck. Ready to drive on to the next theatre.
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De Gliphoeve
03 Sep '21 to 04 Sep '21
The Gliphoeve shows the vitality of the immigrant and does its best to break through the concrete with raw, energetic music.
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Una costilla sobre la mesa: Madre
22 Sep '21 to 23 Sep '21
‘Extremely expressive, incredibly sensitive and radically honest.’ – De VolkskrantAngélica Liddell’s theatre is political, but also deeply personal. Her motto is to try to transform pain into beauty. Madre is a theatrical, baroque and fiery requiem, in which Liddell gives expression to the love...
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Een oprechte ode aan de ironie
28 Oct '21 to 01 Dec '21
De Warme Winkel retreats to a seductively beautiful island with great cultural-historical value. Here they meet the reality TV stars Earl Daniël and Lesley Versprille among others and take on the challenge: will irony remain their strongest weapon or ...
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La ménagerie de verre
26 Nov '21 to 28 Nov '21
La Ménagerie de verre (The Glass Menagerie), starring Isabelle Huppert, is Ivo van Hove's second direction for Théâtre de l'Odéon in Paris. In 2017 he made Vu du pont, based on the classic (Arthur Miller). In the new Van Hove Isabelle Huppert plays a cold-hearted mother on the verge of a breakdown.
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Childs Carvalho Lasseindra Doherty
15 Sep '21 to 16 Sep '21
At the invitation of the Théâtre de la Ville and the Théâtre du Châtelet, performance collective (LA)HORDE presents a show featuring the work of four different choreographers: Lucinda Childs, Tânia Carvalho, Lasseindra Ninja and Oona Doherty.
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Common Ground
26 Oct '21
A ritualistic arena for two exceptional dancers: Common Ground is a choreographic game of chess. Anouk van Dijk lets two dancers battle it out in a unique duel of equality and betrayal, about power and submission.
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TUTTI
19 Oct '21 to 20 Oct '21
Introdans celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with all its dancers, in ballets by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Mauro Bigonzetti and with the magnificent singers of A Filetta and Assurd. With Tutti, the company presents two absolute audience favourites as their anniversary gift.
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Gardenia
03 Dec '21 to 05 Dec '21
25 June 2010. The curtain of the Ghent city theatre NTGent opens, and Gardenia premiers. Inspired by the penetrating film Yo soy asi (by Sonia Herman 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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