Theatre selection autumn 2025

Twice a year, we present an independent selection of new plays from Flanders with an exceptional literary quality. This fall, we have added six new titles to our website.

From timeless oral traditions to sharp contemporary critiques, and from intimate monologues to bold theatrical experiments: this selection invites you on a journey through identity, imagination, and resistance.

After an incident with a pet tortoise and an argument with her mother, a young girl shuts herself up in her room. There, in a vision, she is drawn into a parallel reality where animals speak and the ancestors are still alive. In that magical world she is given the task of travelling to the native village of legendary storyteller Amadou. The play is inspired by the work of Malian writer Amadou Hampâté Bâ and breathes new life into the centuries-old tradition of West African storytelling.

In a layered narrative, Von Winckelmann disentangles his family history and brings stories, some never before told, to life. The text switches between different layers of time and different perspectives, and connects family events with the larger history of the past 150 years: colonialism, slavery, the Second World War, nationalism and migration.

In her monologue, Maaike Neuville gives a new voice to the mythical daughter of Agamemnon. In this play she demands her rightful place. She asks questions about her fate, her father’s silence and the role of women as bargaining chips in a man’s world.

Eva and Zakaria, get lost on their way to the baker’s. Their quest to find their way back home turns into a complicated journey because of the lies they tell in order to get out of tricky situations. Each time they lie a white balloon appears on stage, while a giant bouncy castle burgeons in the background. At a certain point, the lie itself becomes a character, The Lie, who both challenges and helps Eva and Zakaria to come up with new fibs and excuses. Lying is not only presented as something negative but also as a creative force that adds colour to life. 

From an observation hut in the woods, forest ranger Kasper Kind spews forth his diatribe against modern society. Mankind has become so omnipresent and numerous that its very existence is a growing threat to nature, society and itself. Besides ecological catastrophy and the downfall of Western individualism, he is driven by hatred, jealousy and an event from his past.

In ‘=’ a girl lies flat on the ground, as a protest. In seventeen short scenes she is repeatedly approached by other characters representing the world: a tree, a river, a bicycle courier, the wind... The more the world attempts to get her moving again, the more strongly she reformulates her refusal. ‘=’ is an investigation into how the individual relates to the outside world and what resistance can mean.