age of rage
'Ancient Greek tragedy explodes into our times.' - The Guardian ★★★★★
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. This time the history of the Trojan War and the royal Atrid family is the starting point. Ifigeneia in Aulis, Trojan Women, Hekabe, Agamemnon, Elektra and Orestes are edited into one story. Age of Rage shows the mechanisms, inevitability and hopelessness of a circle of violence.
Run time 225 minutes, incl. intermission
Language Dutch
Genre Theatre
The performance includes loud passages and strobe effects
Livestream Sun December 11
IVO VAN HOVE ON AGE OF RAGE
'It is the story of years of war and how its consequences as an ineradicable cancer have a profound and long-lasting effect on families and society. But also a story about violence today and about radicalization. We see how, faced with major problems, leaders turn to murder and revenge rather than deliberation. A royal family that runs the country but never comes to a vision or approach for a better future. A dark, grand and universal story.'
REVIEWS
The Guardian
'Clytemnestra and Helena are both played by Nietvelt in a sensational double performance, while Goslinga is every bit as riveting. The show makes immense demands on its performers who deliver with unfaltering energy.'
The Telegraph
'This timeless, blood-and-thunder tragedy is a marvel to watch.'
The Stage
'Four hours fly by.'
Financial Times
'The show has an epic, elemental quality, with Jan Versweyveld’s starkly expressive design, Wim Vandekeybus’s restless choreography and van Hove’s searing stage images. But it’s the moments of intimacy and grief that make it strike home, from the innocent glee with which Paddenburg’s Iphigenia greets her father Agamemnon to the raw agony of Hecuba (Janni Goslinga) faced with the corpse of her son and the quiet descent of Astyanax’s slowly falling body. Grimly good.'
ITALive
On Sunday December 11, the performance will be streamed live from ITA. The stream has English subtitles. Ticket buyers will receive an email two hours before the start with the link and a personal password.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to watch the livestream at another time. We play the performance live on the ITA stage and the livestream is a direct connection so that you can watch what is happening in ITA at home.
BEHIND THE SCENES
Go backstage at the rehearsal process of Age of Rage and find out how the show is made.
Ivo van Hove has been director of Internationaal Theater Amsterdam since 2001.
In season 22|23, he will be directing My Heavenly Favourite (Marieke Lucas Rijneveld) at ITA and his directing of Age of rage, A little life, The Damned, Battles and metamorphoses of a woman, Kings of War and Who killed my father will be reprised.
CREDITS
after Euripides en Aischylos
direction Ivo van Hove
translation Gerard Koolschijn
adaptation Koen Tachelet, Ivo van Hove
dramaturgy Koen Tachelet
choreography Wim Vandekeybus
scenography & light design Jan Versweyveld
costume design An D’Huys
composition Eric Sleichim
cast Achraf Koutet, Aus Greidanus jr., Chris Nietvelt, Gijs Scholten van Aschat, Hans Kesting, Hélène Devos, Ilke Paddenburg, Janni Goslinga, Jesse Mensah, Maarten Heijmans, Majd Mardo, Maria Kraakman and Selin Akkulak
dancers Bai Li Wiegmans, Katharina Ludwig and Emma Hanekroot
music BL!NDMAN [drums] Hannes Nieuwlaet, Yves Goemaere, Ward Deketelaere
coproducer Holland Festival; Bl!ndman; La Villette, Paris
private producer Helga Lasschuijt and Dirk Raes, Gabriella de Rooij and Hendrik Jan ten Have, Marius de Vos and Gary Carter, Anna Wouters and Esther Kwaks
this performance is sponsored by Ammodo
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assistant director Daniël 't Hoen, Rosemintje Verpaalen – Weijts, Konstantinos Vasilakopoulos (intern), Lisaboa Houbregts (intern)
assistant dramaturgy Simone van der Steen (intern)
assistant scenography Bart van Merode, Django Walon, Renée Faveere (intern)
assistant video Coen Bouman, Arjen Klerkx
assistant music George Dhauw
assistant choreography Laura Aris Álvarez, Rob Hayden
assistant costume design Rosa Schützendorf
head of technical department Reyer Meeter
production Inge Zeilinga, Michiel van Schijndel
head artistic bureau Loesje Riethof
production assistant Eva Sol
technical department Sebastiaan Kruijs (stage manager), Kevin Cuyvers, Paul van der Zouwe, Pepijn van Beek, Emile Bleeker, Erwin Sterk, Timo Merkies, Dennis van Scheppingen, Ruud de Vos, Danne Hekman, Mark Thewessen, Manon van den Nouland, Wim Wildenbeest (intern)
costume department Wim van Vliet (head), Farida Bouhbouh
hair and make-up David Verswijveren, Mirjam Venema
tailor Claudia Pellegrini, Karianne Hoenderderkamp
set construction Fiction Factory
photography Fabian Calis
graphical design Sara Fortuin
publicity Iris Istha