Opening Night

Selected by the Official Jury Selection 2024

Opening Night is the first major production by De Hoe, written by all the writers and performed by all the actors, spanning three generations. Influenced by the exceptional films of John Cassavetes and the acting of Gena Rowlands, De Hoe explores both excess and the themes of love and vulnerability. Opening Night is a collective search for a New Emotionality in an emotionally saturated society, playing with life and death in a flirtation with sentimentality. Spontaneous yet directed, sincere yet also not.

Each performance of Opening Night is a premiere teetering on the edge. In a desperate attempt to fill the void that emerges when an actor loses their words, seven actors embark on a feverish, tragicomic quest to be as authentic as possible.

Dutch Theater Festival (NTF)

The Dutch Theater Festival (NTF) marks the festive start of the new theatre season. For 11 days, NTF showcases the most beautiful and impressive performances from the past season, selected by 7 independent juries from the Netherlands and Flanders. The festival celebrates many genres and forms of theatre: drama, cabaret, youth theatre, mime, performance, and more.

The festival kicks off with the always-discussed lecture De Staat van het Theater and a deep-dive interview with The State of the World with a famous international artist. The festival concludes with the presentation of the country’s most prestigious theatre awards during the Het Gala van het Nederlands Theater.