Theatre selection spring 2025

From a road trip haunted by sorrow and mourning, to a surreal product launch gone awry; from a poetic tribute to land and community, over a raw, layered reflection on queer desire, to a political and social wake-up call about nuclear weapons: these five plays confront loss, ambition, identity and global responsibility with sharp insight, emotional depth and bold theatrical imagination.

Lucie and her partner Andreas drive to the south of France together. On the way, Lucie looks back at the family holidays of her childhood. For a long time you think Lucie and Andreas are together in the car, until it suddenly transpires that Andreas is not in the passenger seat. ‘Faren’ is a tale of sorrow and mourning, and of how, despite the presence of such intense emotions, you must dare to look ahead.

In ‘A Quick Back-and-Forth’, Christine, Hekuran and Susanne warmly welcome the audience to the pre-launch of Worth It 2.0 – The Next Step, their biggest and most experimental project of all time. It's a satirical thought experiment for teenagers and adults about the route to success. The play carries techno-optimism and self-improvement to their most extreme and horrifying consequences.

‘From Here’ is a triptych with stories about the inhabitants of the Veenkoloniën or ‘peat colonies’, the impoldered marshy land in the north of the Netherlands. The play is about the people who lived in that extraordinary landscape: those who came, those who left again and those who stayed. These are the stories of real people and the pride and passion they feel for this place, despite the sacrifices it demands.

Four queer men share their (unfulfilled) longings, thoughts, doubts and fears with each other and with the audience. It is tightly composed and divided into three parts, the central part also deals with the antithesis of desire: fear and sorrow. The language and phrasing of ‘Desire’ are simple but powerful, while the composition and repetition form a polyphony and evoke images that feel both intimate and universal.

Stijn Devillé brings together four contrasting decors and eras surrounding the bombing of Hirsohima: New York 1933, London 1944, Hiroshima 1945 and Congo 2025. This play lays bare the political and social responsibility for the trade in raw materials. Devillé sheds light on the political backroom music, the moral arguments and the human suffering that nuclear weapons have left to us. This play is highly topical.