NACHTWACHT
Apr 23 -
Apr 25
NITE / Club Guy & Roni / HIIIT / Het Muziek / Guy Weizman
Following an overwhelming response, numerous nominations, and sold-out performances, Nachtwacht retuns to the stage.
What began as a radical theatrical experience evolved into a production that left both audiences and creators spellbound. In 2027, Nachtwacht will venture out into the night once again.
Nachtwacht
- Date
- April 23, 2027 - April 25, 2027
- Duration
- 210 min, interval included
- Genre
- Music theatre
- Language
- Dutch
- Surtitles
- Available at one or more shows
- Location
- Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam, Grote Zaal
Nachtwacht is more than just a show. It is a three-and-a-half-hour interdisciplinary farewell rave: theater, dance, and live music merge into a raw, physical experience that pulls you into a family on the brink. An evening about growing older, mortality, and the desperate attempt to break free from the roles imposed upon us.
With a cast of 25 musicians, dancers, and actors, Nachtwacht is a large-scale production about the small, personal moments that are familiar to us all.
Tickets and times
Humor and melancholy
Music draws the audience into a ritualistic movement toward the unknown. What is old fades away. What follows is an ecstatic release – a final outburst, just before the first light lays everything bare.
At the center stands “Mr.,” a man in the final months of his life. Around him: family, ghosts, memories. As he prepares for the end, his children struggle with a new era. They balance between loyalty, longing, and the need to choose for themselves who they want to be.
With a sharp yet loving gaze, Nachtwacht weaves together humor and melancholy. The performance holds up a mirror to us and takes a critical yet empathetic look at the Dutch healthcare system – and at what we expect from one another, and what we often don’t dare to give.
The title refers to Rembrandt’s The Night Watch: gatekeepers of a past era, but also the emergence of power structures that continue to influence us to this day. At the same time, the night here is quite literal: keeping vigil at a deathbed. A place where a family, despite everything, gathers for a final ritual.
And it is precisely there—at the end of the night—that something can break open.
A moment of liberation.
A chance to choose who you are all over again.
Reviews
Selected by the professional jury as one of the most talked-about productions of 2025
Credits
director
Guy Weizman
choreography
Roni Haver
text
Rik van den Bos, Marieke van Veen
cast
Adam Peterson, Angela Herenda, Bien De Moor, Bram van der Heijden, Camilo Chapela, Igor Podsiadly, Jack Wouterse, Jésula Toussaint Visser, Nimuë Walraven, Olaf Ait Tami, Sarah Janneh
music
Isa Goldschmeding, Joost Geevers, Maya Felixbrot, Niels Meliefste, Noa Eyl, Ronas Uyrum
vocals
Bernet Wilms, Brecht Coppers, Femke van Essen, Lisa Defeyter, Özgür Selim Guldur, Rosalyn Stürzer, Taylor Burgess, Yao Kouakou Landry Assokoly
set design
Ascon de Nijs
costume design
Maison The Faux
lightning design
Maarten van Rossem
composer
David Dramm, Luke Deane
additional music
Max Frimout
sound design
Peter Zwart, Sander van der Werff
dramaturgy
Friederike Schubert
musical dramaturgy
David Dramm
thanks to
Catoo Post, Giordano Mor, Anaida Melivia, Clara Negrila, Team NITE, Team Club Guy & Roni, Team HIIIT, Team Het Muziek (formerly Asko|Schönberg), Team NKK NXT, Team UMCG, Team Bab Ad-Daar, Team VRIJDAG
