ITA-Ensemble
Since the appointment of Ivo van Hove in 2001, the ITA ensemble (formerly Toneelgroep Amsterdam) has paved the way for a company with international allure with a series of high-profile performances and attracting renowned directors from home and abroad. The core is the top ensemble of actors that make it possible to keep performances on the repertoire. In addition to its own location in Amsterdam, the ensemble plays around 100 stages a year worldwide.
Season 22-23
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Lehman Trilogy
Slavery and industrialisation, war and new technological developments: no matter what is happening in America and even worldwide, the Lehmans always know how to make good money from it.
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My Heavenly Favourite
11 Jan '23 to 03 Jun '23
Ivo van Hove is the first director to adapt this heartbreaking and at the same time terrifying novel for the stage.
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Blood Wedding
30 Mar '23 to 15 Apr '23
Driven by an indestructible love, the bride and her lover run off during the party. A savage manhunt is launched. The outcome is fatal.
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Birds of a Kind
05 Apr '23 to 22 Apr '23
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 against the backdrop of the decades-long Israeli-Arab conflict?
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penthesilea
15 Jun '23 to 25 Jun '23
In this searing drama about a fatal love, a blistering passion churns unstoppably to the surface.
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Hamlet and Ophelia
20 May '23 to 03 Jun '23
A raw performance about a true story that never happened
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Client E. Busken
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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A Little Life
No novel has captivated and moved millions of readers during the past few years like A little life by American author Hanya Yanagihara.
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The doctor
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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Who Killed My Father
Exclusively for The Young Vic, Hans Kesting performs his acclaimed monologue Who Killed My Father in English.
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who killed my father
Ivo van Hove adapted Who killed my father by internationally acclaimed writer Édouard Louis. Van Hove turned the very outspoken book into a monologue, especially for Hans Kesting.
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A Little Life
No novel has captivated and moved millions of readers during the past few years like A little life by American author Hanya Yanagihara.
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Battles and metamorphoses of a woman
One day, Édouard Louis stumbles upon a photograph of his mother when she was 20 years old. A happy young woman full of hope, full of dreams. But he himself only knows his mother as totally unhappy, trapped in a routine life as a housewife.
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age of rage
In Age of Rage, Ivo van Hove tells a primeval story of how revenge haunts and destroys 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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The year of cancer
The year of cancer is one of director Luk Perceval’s favorite novels. The balance between big emotions and banality, between tense expectations and daily burdens form the basis of his reading.
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a little life
No novel has captivated and moved millions of readers during the past few years like A little life by American author Hanya Yanagihara.
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kings of war
26 Apr '23 to 06 May '23
In Kings of war Ivo van Hove merges William Shakespeare's plays Henry V, Henry VI and Richard III into one explosive performance about leadership.
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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.