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Selman Aqiqi
T +31 (0)20 795 99 36 | selman@ita.nl
productions Selman
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De kersentuin
22 Aug '19 to 19 Jan '20
After having stayed in Paris for several years, the widow Ranevskaya returns to her family home in Russia. She encounters a changed world. The family’s debts have become so great that the house and estate will have to be auctioned. Businessman Lopakhin sees a way out. He proposes to cut down th...
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De thuiskomst
09 Oct '19 to 30 Nov '19
Following on from Uit het leven van marionetten, Nanouk Leopold is now directing the ITA ensemble in The Homecoming, one of the most frequently performed plays by English playwright and Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter.
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Roman tragedies
08 Nov '19 to 10 Nov '19
Ivo van Hove’s epic is ‘one of the most audacious Shakespeare productions of the modern era’ (Time Out), and immerses you in the midst of the multimedia action.
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Afther the Rehearsal / Persona
Van Hove has built a long and intense relationship with Bergman’s oeuvre as a director, which in the past resulted in the productions Scenes from a Marriage (2005) and Cries and Whispers (2009). With the diptych After the Rehearsal / Persona he continues his study of the Swedish film and theatr...
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Who Killed My Father
01 Apr '20 to 17 May '20
Young writer Édouard Louis (1992) is the greatest literary sensation in France since Michel Houellebecq. With his autobiographical debut The End of Eddy, he looked back on his tormented youth as a young gay man in the forgotten underclass of society: the north of France, plagued by unemployment.
Joris van den Ring Bax
T +31 (0)20 795 99 39 | jorisvdrb@ita.nl | mo, tu, we, th
Productions Joris
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The year of cancer
13 Aug '19 to 17 Aug '19
The year of cancer is one of director Luk Perceval’s favourite novels. The balance between big emotions and banality, between tense expectations and daily burdens forms the basis of his reading. ‘If you don’t go and watch this, you are denying yourself happiness.’ - NRC *****
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La voix humaine
11 Sep '19 to 21 Dec '19
With The human voice (La voix humaine), Jean Cocteau wrote the ultimate farewell monologue. A woman speaks to her ex on the phone in a last attempt to undo their breakup. Gradually, she realizes that the lover has chosen another for good. This moving monologue premiered in 2009 and has since th...
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Een klein leven
06 Dec '19 to 21 Feb '20
No book 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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Husbands and wives
24 Oct '19 to 31 Oct '19
One day you look up and it’s bad. Jack and Sally are getting divorced. We don’t want to make a big thing about it, they claim. It is a mutual decision, we’re both fine. But for their friends Gabe and Judy, it is an incredible shock. Is our marriage as good as we think it is, they wonder. Jack a...
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Ibsen house
Based on Ibsen, Simon Stone writes and directs a grand family epic about the troublesome but inevitable coexistence of different generations under one roof.
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Kings of war
Kings of War combines Henry V, Henry VI and Richard III into a single, explosive play about leadership. For his portrayal of Richard III, Hans Kesting received the Louis d’Or in 2016.
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Op hoop van zegen
13 May '20 to 21 Jun '20
Simon Stone has relocated the central fishing village in Op hoop van zegen to the arrival hall of an airport, where family and friends await the return of their loved ones. With fast, razor-sharp dialogue, he transforms the ultimate Dutch drama classic into a story from and about our time.
Ewa Chojecka
T + 31 (0)20 795 99 37 | ewa@ita.nl | tu, we, th, fr
Productions Ewa
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Freud
18 Sep '19 to 30 Nov '19
In the late 1950s, French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre wrote The Freud Scenario, at the request of Hollywood director John Huston. Sartre is completely immersed in the subject, that he writes a script for a seven hour movie. Huston reduces the many hundreds of pages to a two-hour film. Because ...
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Medea
16 Oct '19 to 29 May '20
Simon Stone made a radical adaptation of Euripides’s Greek tragedy about the daughter of the king, who is replaced with a younger woman by her husband and kills her children out of revenge. He turned it into a contemporary story. He let himself be inspired by the true story of an American docto...
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Death in Venice
Thomas Mann is thirty-six when he meets a young man during a holiday in Venice. The event inspires him to write one of his most famous works, Death in Venice.
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Children of Nora
01 Apr '20 to 17 May '20
Everyone knows about the argument - the big argument, the ferocious, final argument, the one that ends the relationship.