BRANDHAARDEN 2023: FEMALE VOICES

Six international female directors bring their take on classic characters such as Jane Eyre, Medea and Joan of Arc to the stage. Buy tickets now for Brandhaarden: Female Voices and see work by Elsa-Sophie Jach (Germany), Eline Arbo (Norway), Satoko Ichihara (Japan), Carme Portaceli (Spain), Hanane Hajj Ali (Lebanon) and Ewelina Marciniak (Poland).

22 Feb - 04 Mar

Language NP Language no problem Die Jungfrau von Orleans
Nationaltheater Mannheim / Ewelina Marciniak Theater Die Jungfrau von Orleans
Close Die Jungfrau von Orleans Nationaltheater Mannheim / Ewelina Marciniak
God's warrior, peasant girl with hallucinations or rebel? Who is Joan of Arc if we look beyond the myth?
Language NP Language no problem Madama Butterfly Q Theatre Company (Tokyo) / Theater Neumarkt (Zürich) / Satoko Ichihara Theater Madama Butterfly
Close Madama Butterfly Q Theatre Company (Tokyo) / Theater Neumarkt (Zürich) / Satoko Ichihara
In her latest work, young Japanese director and writer Satoko Ichihara takes on Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly.
Language NP Language no problem Die Unerhörten
Residenztheater (München) / Elsa-Sophie Jach Theater Die Unerhörten
Close Die Unerhörten Residenztheater (München) / Elsa-Sophie Jach
Technoid love letters for ancient heroines. After Sappho, Ovid, Euripides any many others
Language NP Language no problem Bovary KVS (Brussel) / Carme Portaceli Theater Bovary
Close Bovary KVS (Brussel) / Carme Portaceli
Catalan director Carme Portaceli brings Madame Bovary to life in a contemporary adaptation that emphasises the story’s persistent relevance today.
Language NP Language no problem Jogging Hanane Hajj Ali (Beirut) Theater Jogging
Close Jogging Hanane Hajj Ali (Beirut)
In her award-winning play Jogging, Hanane Hajj Ali takes you along through the streets of Beirut as well as her dreams, desires, hopes, and the many roles she plays as a Lebanese woman.
Language NP Language no problem Jane Eyre Nationaltheatret (Oslo) / Eline Arbo Theater Jane Eyre

RESIDENZTHEATER (MÜNCHEN) / ELSA-SOPHIE JACH

DIE UNERHÖRTEN

Fuelled by SLATEC's live techno beats, Die Unerhörten takes you on a quest for the remains of Europe's first female poet: Sappho. 'An energetic evening, technoid, musical, feminine'.

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NATIONALTHEATRET (OSLO) / ELINE ARBO

JANE EYRE

Lead actress Kjersti Tveterås is "a rare charm bomb" (Aftenposten) in this magnificent Jane Eyre by Eline Arbo. A work that plays with the traditional theatrical narrative and the romantic costume drama.

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HANANE HAJJ ALI (BEIRUT)

Jogging

Jogging has been travelling around the world for years and can finally be seen again in the Netherlands. This performance will leave you in wonder: Jogging is theatre of great significance. 'Spiritual, self aware and utterly mesmerising'.

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KVS (BRUSSEL) / CARME PORTACELI

Bovary

'Play the piano, be perfect, be beautiful and shut up, be what society expects of you.' That was then. What is Madame Bovary like now? Witness Emma Bovary's tragic love story and her quest for passion.

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Q THEATRE COMPANY (TOKYO) / THEATER NEUMARKT (ZÜRICH) / SATOKO ICHIHARA

MADAMA BUTTERFLY

Packed with humorous images and combative debates, eccentric characters and disjunctions from pop culture: Satoko Ichihara’s first production outside Japan combines unexpected images with unsparingly direct words.

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NATIONALTHEATER MANNHEIM / EWELINA MARCINIAK

DIE JUNGFRAU VON ORLEANS

Polish star director Ewelina Marciniak turns Joan of Arc into a story about heroic women today. Selected for one of Europe's most important theatre festivals: Theatertreffen.

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(B)randprogramma (Frige programme)

Turn the tables

During Brandhaarden, we welcome you to our Salon to join us at our table for the programme Turn the tables, inspired by the (intersectional) feminist works The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago and Guess who's coming to dinner too? by Patricia Kaersenhout. In each edition of the programme, we explore different facets of our society from the female perspective.

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11th edition

Brandhaarden festival

Brandhaarden is an international theatre festival that brings performances by remarkable theatre makers from abroad to Amsterdam. The festival offers a unique overview of one creator, house, writer, region or theme. Previous editions have spotlighted directors such as Katie Mitchell, Milo Rau and the Rimini Protokoll collective, writer Édouard Louis, the Southern European region (Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece) and city theatres such as Münchner Kammerspiele, Volksbühne Berlin and Peter Brooks Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord.

Brandhaarden is financially supported by

Fonds 21
Goethe Institut
Stichting Paul en Hanneke van den Hoek