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ITA Ensemble

The ITA Ensemble is the artistic capital of Internationaal Theater Amsterdam and the starting point for creating new productions. At its core is the top ensemble of actors that makes it possible to keep performances on the repertoire. Besides its own location in Amsterdam, the ensemble plays some 100 stages worldwide every year. With high-profile performances and attracting renowned directors from home and abroad, the way has been paved for a company with international allure. Since 1 September 2023, Eline Arbo has been Artistic Director; from 2001 to 2023, Ivo van Hove was at the helm of the ITA Ensemble (and former Toneelgroep Amsterdam).

Season 24|25

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ITA Ensemble Theater The End of Eddy

Close The End of Eddy ITA Ensemble / Eline Arbo

15 Nov '24 to 01 Dec '24

Édouard Louis took the world by storm with his successful autobiographical novel The End of Eddy. Without much frills, the novel tells the life story of a homosexual boy growing up in a homophobic environment.

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ITA Ensemble Theater Giovanni's Room

Close Giovanni's Room ITA Ensemble / Eline Arbo

15 Jan '25 to 02 Feb '25

David awaits the return of his fiancée Hella. But when he meets Giovanni, a charismatic Italian bartender, the two men become entangled in an intense affair. After three months, David's fiancée returns and he is forced to make a choice.

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ITA Ensemble Theater The Wall

Close The Wall ITA Ensemble / Eline Arbo

05 Mar '25 to 27 Apr '25

A middle-aged woman concludes, one morning during a weekend at a friends' country house in the Austrian Alps, that she is all alone. She sets out to investigate and, comes across an impenetrable glass wall, which completely isolates her from the rest of the world.

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ITA Ensemble Theater Angels in America

Close Angels in America ITA Ensemble / Ivo van Hove

11 Apr '25 to 28 Apr '25

In 2008, Ivo van Hove directed a radical Angels in America which Tony Kushner himself, after his passage through Amsterdam, dubbed his favourite version up to then. It is this version that is now being staged again, with some actors from the original cast and some new actors from the ITA Ensemble.

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ITA Ensemble Theater Medea

Close Medea ITA ensemble / Simon Stone

In Simon Stone’s version, he combines the tragedy of Euripides with the true story of an American woman who killed her children in the nineties.

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ITA Ensemble Theater Penthesilea

Close Penthesilea ITA ensemble / Eline Arbo

03 Aug '24 to 06 Aug '24

‘Penthesilea is a ravishing performance and a new highlight in Arbo's oeuvre.', NRC ★★★★★. In this searing drama about a fatal love, a blistering passion churns unstoppably to the surface.

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ITA Ensemble Theater The Laws

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.

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ITA Ensemble Theater Julie

Close Julie ITA ensemble / Rebecca Frecknall

25 Aug '24 to 03 Sep '24

Young British star director Rebecca Frecknall creates a contemporary adaptation of August Strindberg's famous play.

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ITA Ensemble Theater penthesilea

Close penthesilea ITA Ensemble / Eline Arbo

10 Sep '24 to 28 Sep '24

In this searing drama about a fatal love, a blistering passion churns unstoppably to the surface.

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ITA Ensemble Theater Prima Facie

Close Prima Facie ITA Ensemble / Eline Arbo

04 Oct '24 to 20 Nov '24

Eline Arbo directs Maria Kraakman in author Suzie Miller's award-winning play. This cutting monologue caused a furor on West End and Broadway. Numerous versions were produced worldwide. Eline Arbo was the first to stage the play in the Netherlands.

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ITA Ensemble Theater Client E. Busken

Close Client E. Busken ITA Ensemble / Maria Kraakman

02 Oct '24 to 17 Oct '24

Maria Kraakman made her debut as director with Client 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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ITA Ensemble Theater The Doctor

Close The Doctor ITA Ensemble / Robert Icke

05 Jan '25 to 19 Jan '25

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.

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ITA Ensemble Theater Birds of a Kind

Close Birds of a Kind ITA Ensemble / Alize Zandwijk

12 Feb '25 to 15 Mar '25

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?

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ITA Ensemble Theater Who Killed My Father

Close Who Killed My Father ITA ensemble / Ivo van Hove

20 Feb '25 to 02 Mar '25

“Merciless and moving portrait.” - de Volkskrant ★★★★

Ivo van Hove adapted Who Killed My Father, by internationally acclaimed writer Édouard Louis, for the stage. Van Hove turned the very outspoken book into a monologue, especially for Hans Kesting.

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ITA Ensemble Theater The Hours

Close The Hours ITA Ensemble / Eline Arbo

20 Jun '25 to 22 Jun '25

The stage adaptation of Michael Cunningham's The Hours.

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ITA Ensemble Theater The Hours

Close The Hours ITA Ensemble / Eline Arbo

04 Jul '25 to 06 Jul '25

The stage adaptation of Michael Cunningham's The Hours.

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Ensemble

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Bart Slegers

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Chris Nietvelt

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Eefje Paddenburg

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Eelco Smits

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Gijs Scholten van Aschat

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Hans Kesting

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Hélène Devos

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Ilke Paddenburg

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Janni Goslinga

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Jesse Mensah

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Maarten Heijmans

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Maria Kraakman

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Marieke Heebink

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Minne Koole

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‘Ntianu Stuger

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Steven Van Watermeulen

Directors

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Alize Zandwijk

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Eline Arbo

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Ivo van Hove

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Maria Kraakman

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Rebecca Frecknall

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Robert Icke

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Simon Stone

History of the ensemble

At the ensemble, tradition and innovation go hand in hand. They are the pillars of a company that is constantly in motion and presents itself explicitly at the heart of Amsterdam at Leidseplein.

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The story, the actors, the makers' ideas, the secrets: you will learn all about the show.

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Read more about the story, direction, scenography, music and costumes of our ensemble performances.

Awards

Overview of awards that the ensemble has won since 1987.

Repertory

An overview of all the productions the ITA ensemble has played from 1987 to the present.

Archive

The ensemble from 1987 till 2018.