Nieuw van ons ensemble
ITA is back! Despite the uncertain times, ITA presents a wide range of premieres and reprises of the ITA ensemble in the autumn of 2020, including Romeo and Juliet, directed by Michiel van Erp, and new contemporary pieces by Simon Stone and Robert Icke. Two premieres have already been announced for the spring of 2021: Age of Rage, a large-scale social project by Ivo van Hove in the tradition of Roman tragedies and Kings of war. And Michael Cunningham's The hours, directed by Eline Arbo at the ITA ensemble.
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Children of Nora
Robert Icke, the talent of the British stage, is back at ITA. With Children of Nora he creates a sequel to Nora by Henrik Ibsen. We see how Nora's children are doing after she leaves them and her husband.
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The good hope
Simon Stone is one of the most sought after international directors. He writes and directs a contemporary version of Op hoop van zegen (The good hope; Herman Heijermans). He changes the fishing village of the original play into the arrivals hall of an airport.
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Romeo and Julia
Michiel van Erp directs Joy Delima and Achraf Koutet as the most famous couple. In Van Erp's view, this Shakespearean classic is about identity: how can you be who you want to be? The division of roles is partly cross-gender.
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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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The hours
Eline Arbo directs The hours, based on the novel by Michael Cunningham. The hours takes place on one day in the lives of three women, at three different moments in the 20th century. All three struggle with the question how to be yourself in a world that is tight like a straitjacket.
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Who killed my father
Ivo van Hove adapted Who killed my father by French literary sensation Édouard Louis. Van Hove turned the very outspoken book into a monologue, especially for Hans Kesting.
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Medea
Simon Stone blends Euripides' Greek tragedy Medea with the true story of Debora Green, an American woman who killed her children in the 1990s. Marieke Heebink is heartbreaking and horrifying as Anna (Medea) and won the Theo d'Or for her performance.
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The hidden force
Now that statues are being taken down and our colonial past is being viewed critically, the successful ITA performance The hidden force (De stille kracht) is back. Ivo van Hove directed Couperus' compelling story about the misunderstandings between cultures and between close relatives.
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A little life
Based on Hanya Yanagihara's bestseller. Ivo van Hove created a piece that greatly affected both press and audience. Ramsey Nasr plays the traumatized Jude and won the Louis d'Or for his performance.
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Freud
Freud has, perhaps more than anyone else in the twentieth century, determined how we think about what it means to be human. He has had a profound influence on literature, film, and theatre. The performance Freud shows Freud as a young psychiatrist with a tormented personality who discovered psychoanalysis almost against his will.
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The things that pass
The play is based on the psychological novel Of old people, the things that pass (1906), according to writer Louis Couperus 'an awful, terrible tragedy'. About the oppressive influence of a secret on successive generations. Director: Ivo van Hove.
