Opening Night

Selected by the official jury selection 2024

Opening Night is the first major performance of De Hoe, written by all writers and performed by all players, across 3 generations. Influenced by the exceptional film work of John Cassavetes and the acting of Gena Rowlands, De Hoe plays excess, but also love and vulnerability. Opening Night is a collective search for a New Emotionality in an emotionally saturated society. Flirting with sentimentality, playing life and death. Spontaneous, yet directed. Sincere and not at the same time.

Opening Night is a premiere that has been thrown into disarray every evening. Desperate to fill the void left when an actor loses his words, seven actors undertake a feverish, tragicomic search for how to be as truthful as possible.

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.