HOPE
In HOPE, an ensemble, a director and the staff of a bar become entangled in games of power, resistance and rising panic. Outside, the rain swells into a flood. Inside this fragile micro-society, the questions mount: Do we need leaders, or do we need each other? What is stronger; the promise of order or the force of resistance? What can we do now that the flood is rising to silence us.
Run time 110 minutes
Genre Theatre
Language Performed in Dutch, English and German, with Dutch and English surtitles
On Friday, December 19, there will be a post-show talk with Guy Weizman, artistic director of NITE and director of HOPE, and actress Nimuë Walraven, moderated by Diederik Imfeld.
Hope
HOPE pulls you into the tensions between doubt and conviction, repression and rebellion. What remains when systems fail, when stories and morals collapse, when the “choreography of consensus” finally breaks apart?
In that rupture, hope flickers. Not as something sweet or sentimental, but as a rebellious, imaginative force against despair, chaos and conflict. Hope as a verb. Hope as a radical act. Hope as a moving word. Hope as “the thing with feathers” (Emily Dickinson).
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HOPE is international, interdisciplinary theatre that both confronts and moves. Contemporary, visually striking and full of energy. Chaotic, physical, poetic, humorous and wildly imaginative.
Let yourself be surprised, swept up and inspired by HOPE – a swirling fusion of music, theatre and dance.
Credits
cast Bien De Moor, Bram van der Heijden, Gloria Odosi, Meike Knirsch, Nimuë Walraven, Patrick Bimazubute, Rosie Reith, Tatiana Matveeva, Tilo Werner, Tommy Heeffer
direction Guy Weizman
text Maria Milisavljević
choreography Roni Haver
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set design Ascon de Nijs
costumes MAISON the FAUX
music Camill Jammal
dramaturgy Friederike Schubert, Johanna Vater
lighting design Maarten van Rossem
acquisition & tour planning Bureau Berbee & Jansen
