Herfst

Selected by the official jury selection 2024

Every culture says goodbye to loved ones differently. From the slice of cake at the coffee table to an exuberant celebration of life. Rituals provide direction to our grieving process. In Autumn, songs and farewell rituals from Javanese-Surinamese, Caribbean and Indonesian culture mingle with the requiem from Western music history.

The performers allay their fear, deny, enter into confrontation with anger and long for an image beyond finitude. The inevitable is slowly embraced.

Dutch Theater Festival (NTF)

The Dutch Theater Festival (NTF) marks the festive start of the new theater season. For 11 days, NTF shows the most beautiful, impressive performances of the past season, based on the choices of 7 independent juries from the Netherlands and Flanders. NTF thus celebrates many genres and forms of theatre: theatre, cabaret, youth theatre, mime, performance and more.

The festival starts with the always controversial lecture The State of the Theater and the in-depth interview The State of the World with a famous international artist. The festival will conclude in a festive manner with the presentation of the country's most important theater prizes during the Gala of the Dutch Theater .