Theatre in season 22-23
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Jubileumconcert - 25 jaar Grachtenfestival!
14 Aug '22
A festive evening that underlines the definition of the festival: a concert with top musicians, with classical, jazz and crossovers, with tearjerkers and showstoppers.
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Het Indisch Interieur
15 Aug '22 to 16 Aug '22
Three generations of Indonesians and their Dutch partners are still struggling with a tropical trauma that is anything but finished.
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Client E. Busken
17 Aug '22 to 27 Aug '22
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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Tula Herdenkingsconcert
21 Aug '22
The Tula Commemorative Concert 2022, organised annually by the National Institute of Dutch Slavery History and Legacy (NiNsee), is a musical tribute to the Curaçao freedom and resistance fighter Tula (also known as Rigaud).
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De Meester en Margarita
29 Aug '22 to 31 Aug '22
After the successful ILIAS in 2019, KONVOOI is once again making a modern adaptation of a classic from literary history, interspersed with musical numbers and five-part harmonies.
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The doctor
06 Sep '22 to 16 Sep '22
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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The Promise (The Song Project)
14 Sep '22 to 18 Sep '22
Wende's premise was - as always - that some things in life can really only be sung.
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On All Things Earth
19 Sep '22 to 20 Sep '22
On all things Earth is a theatrical concert about how we humans see ourselves in relation to our surroundings.
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De Profundis - A Gay Love Letter
22 Sep '22 to 23 Sep '22
Just like the successful Don Caravaggio and Edward II – The Gay King, De Profundis is a unique translation of a literary masterpiece to the stage, in which important historical homosexual figures play a central role.
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De eeuw van mijn moeder
22 Sep '22 to 25 Sep '22
A great family story about migration, emancipation, love and life
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EXIT Macbeth
10 Oct '22 to 11 Oct '22
Michael Pietsch (peaches&rooster) created unique puppets from stuffed animals that are brought to life by the dancers and actors from the NITE ensemble.
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Pieces of a Woman
12 Oct '22 to 13 Oct '22
A family get-together shows, as if through a lens, the problems and internal conflicts of Polish society.
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As you like it (8+)
15 Oct '22 to 29 Dec '22
A Shakespearean rom com for the whole family, about the pros and cons of being in love
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De bananengeneratie
25 Oct '22 to 26 Oct '22
De Bananengeneratie is a mosaic story that forms a portrait of this special community based on stories by various characters. A community that finally gets a face in this performance.
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Lehman Trilogy
26 Oct '22 to 23 Dec '22
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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De Gliphoeve
29 Oct '22 to 30 Oct '22
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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QUEER PLANET
14 Nov '22 to 15 Nov '22
A smashing performance full of power with acts, songs, performances and a DJ. Also for a straight audience.
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Een leuk avondje uit (8+)
26 Nov '22 to 27 Nov '22
A whispered musical about everything complicated in life
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age of rage
02 Dec '22 to 11 Dec '22
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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Saman Amini's Integratieplan
03 Dec '22 to 04 Dec '22
Armed with personal stories and a multitude of sketches and songs, Amini takes us on his journey to 'Dutch citizenship'.
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Verdriet is het ding met veren
06 Dec '22
Jacob Derwig and Erik Whien bring a heartbreaking book to the stage. Sadness is the thing with feathers is the internationally successful debut novel by Londoner Max Porter.
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The year of cancer
04 Jan '23 to 14 Jan '23
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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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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De bus uit Dachau
17 Jan '23 to 20 Jan '23
De bus uit Dachau told the relatively unknown story of a number of resistance fighters who, after the liberation of camp Dachau, were abandoned by the Dutch government and had to travel back to their motherland on their own.
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Erik of het klein insectenboek (8+)
21 Jan '23 to 24 Jan '23
A visual and musical family performance, where your eyes and ears fail.
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De Gabber Opera
01 Sep '22 to 01 Feb '23
De Gabber Opera is inspired by The Bacchantes by Euripides, and shows the timeless penchant of man for stupor and ecstasy.
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Ode to a Love Lost / afterglow
06 Feb '23 to 07 Feb '23
Ode to a Love Lost is set in the deep crater of a heart. The starting point of this performance lies in Meirhaeghe's personal love story.
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The Magic Mountain
09 Feb '23 to 19 Feb '23
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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Vijand van het volk
10 Feb '23 to 11 Feb '23
Science versus politics. What is the value of truth? And how far do you go for your beliefs?
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Keizer zonder kleren
18 Feb '23 to 26 May '23
Keizer zonder Kleren is an adult version of the fairy tale about the emperor without clothes and in the spirit of Molière, whose death, in 2023, will be 350 years ago.
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Histoire(s) du théâtre IV: One Song
06 Mar '23 to 07 Mar '23
Histoire(s) du Théâtre IV: ONE SONG is set in the unique universe of Warlop. Twelve performers enter the arena for a mesmerizing ritual about farewell, life and death, hope and resurrection.
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Coriolanus
11 Mar '23 to 12 Mar '23
Shakespeare's sharpest play on the tense relationship between people and politics
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Vincent Rietveld gaat voor de Louis d'Or
14 Mar '23
The performance examines excellence as an answer to the feeling of superfluousness in an overpopulated world and is the first part of De Warme Winkel's climate trilogy.
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The Money Game jr.
24 Mar '23 to 09 Apr '23
The Money Game jr.- Protesters for hire, is an investigation into the role of optimism and money and how to protest when a crash is in full swing.
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The Story of Travis
25 Mar '23 to 26 Mar '23
The Story of Travis is a new stage play inspired by Lorraine Hansberry's Broadway classic A Raisin in the Sun.
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Blood Wedding
29 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
04 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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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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All the Perfumes of Arabia
06 May '23 to 09 May '23
Inspired by Said's book, Guy Weizman, in collaboration with Schauspiel Hannover, creates a large interdisciplinary performance about how East and West currently view each other.
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Het achtste leven
12 May '23 to 16 May '23
A heartbreaking actor's drama told from the perspective of the female characters, in which the makers take the audience on an emotional, visual and musical journey through the twentieth century.
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John en Gena
15 May '23 to 16 May '23
The actors mirror the artistry of John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands in their own lives as theatre makers, whereby the boundary between fiction and reality remains deliberately vague.
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Antigone in de Amazone
19 May '23 to 21 May '23
Milo Rau creates a political Antigone for the 21st Century, together with indigenous people, activists and actors from Brazil and Europe.
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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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Missie Molière: Loving Hate
23 May '23 to 24 May '23
350 years after the death of France's most famous playwright, director Sarah Moeremans and writer Joachim Robbrecht share their vision of humour, hypocrisy and good intentions through Molière.
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De kersentuin
02 Jun '23 to 03 Jun '23
The characters in De Kersentuin yearn for a time that no longer exists. But for those who live in the past, the hope of a better life remains an irrevocable dream.
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penthesilea
14 Jun '23 to 25 Jun '23
In this searing drama about a fatal love, a blistering passion churns unstoppably to the surface.