Netherlands Archives - The Theatre Times

“Trilogia Cadela Força – Capítulo II: The Brotherhood.” Review. Holland Festival 2025.

Posted by Jenny Strataki | 6th Aug 2025 | Holland Festival 2025, Netherlands, Review

My colleague Jonathan and I were walking towards Leidseplein and the Internationaal Theater...

“From Dust.” Another Review. Holland Festival 2025.

Posted by Róisín Daly | 6th Aug 2025 | Holland Festival 2025, Netherlands, Review, Theatre and AI

Stepping into From Dust feels less like attending a performance and more like consciously entering...

“From Dust.” Review. Holland Festival 2025.

Posted by Javad Mohajeri | 6th Aug 2025 | Holland Festival 2025, Netherlands, Review, Theatre and AI

Arrival and Anticipation On Thursday, June 19, I participated in Michel van der Aa’s From Dust....

“Welcome to Asbestos Hall.” Review. Part II. Holland Festival 2025.

Posted by Unnur Hlíf Rúnarsdóttir | 6th Aug 2025 | Holland Festival 2025, Netherlands, Review

For Part I of this review, go here. Yet again, I find myself at the edge of Amsterdam, at the...

“Welcome to Asbestos Hall.” Review. Part I. Holland Festival 2025.

Posted by Unnur Hlíf Rúnarsdóttir | 6th Aug 2025 | Holland Festival 2025, Netherlands, Review

It is the third day of the Holland Festival, and I make my way to what feels like the edge of...

“Penthesilea” After Von Kleist. Let’s Rock

Posted by Margaret Rose | 14th Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Festivals, Netherlands, Review, United Kingdom

Director of the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF), Nicola Benedetti, chose ‘Rituals that...

A Question of Diversity: In Conversation with Paulien Geerlings

Posted by Rhiannon Ling and Kasia Lech | 22nd Apr 2023 | Dramaturgy, Interview, Netherlands, Theatre for Young Audiences

Paulien Geerlings is the head dramaturg at Amsterdam’s The Toneelmakerij, a theatre company...

Marching the Streets with an Empty Protest Board: Where Lies the Power of Protest?

Posted by Vera Bonder | 15th Jan 2023 | Festivals, Netherlands, Participatory Theatre, Review, Theatre and Dance, Theatre and Politics

On Saturday 19 November 2022, I witnessed the performance Hands Up! by dancer and choreographer...

“Who Killed My Father,” Young Vic

Posted by Duška Radosavljević | 16th Sep 2022 | Adaptation, Design, London, Netherlands, Review, United Kingdom

‘If this were a text for the theatre, here is how it would begin’ – these are the opening words of...

Ivo van Hove’s “Age of Rage” at Barbican

Posted by Duška Radosavljević | 19th May 2022 | Adaptation, Netherlands, Review, United Kingdom

Ivo van Hove’s production of Age of Rage is sourced from six plays by Euripides and one by...

New European Drama Repertory for Young People: Age of Rage

Posted by Wieke Ten Cate | 11th Nov 2020 | Essay, Netherlands, Theatre for Young Audiences, Youth Theatre - A Casebook

As a documentary theatre maker, I am typically interested in individuals and characters whom I...

True Inner-Emotion: Butoh Festival Amsterdam 2020

Posted by Christopher Harris | 2nd Oct 2020 | Festivals, Netherlands, Theatre and Dance

The Butoh dance – born in Japan in the late ’50s, and welcomed and metabolized by the West in the ’80s – is not annulled in the stereotype of a technique handed down and transmittable, but lives an ever new epiphany in the individual experience of each dancer whose results, formally indefinable, go from improvised performative intervention to the extreme of the choreographic mechanism.

“A Little Life”: Adaptation and Mixed Reality

Posted by Olivia Ek | 20th Apr 2020 | Adaptation, Netherlands, Review, Transmedia

There’s a colloquialism within the theatre community that ‘you know lighting design is good when...

“Angels in Suits” – The Operas of George Benjamin & Martin Crimp

Posted by Christopher Harris | 29th Aug 2018 | Dramaturgy, Essay, London, Netherlands, Theatre and Opera, United Kingdom

The dramaturgy of love’s intertwining with violence has been a recurring theme in the...

Opera Forward Festival: Amsterdam, March 2018

Posted by Christopher Harris | 23rd Mar 2018 | Festivals, Netherlands, Review, Theatre and Opera

If you ask any resident of Amsterdam: “how did the National Opera House look from the...

How Can We Transform The World Through One’s Self? Amsterdam’s Butoh Festival

Posted by Christopher Harris | 16th Mar 2018 | Festivals, Netherlands, News, Participatory Theatre, Theatre and Dance, Transcultural Collaborations

In Waves: Transforming The World Through One’s Self At Amsterdam’s Butoh Festival In...

Impact From Trivia–Jan Versweyveld And “What Is Stage–Dynamics Of Seeing”

Posted by Clement Lee | 14th Dec 2017 | Design, Hong Kong, Netherlands, Review

In early September, around 20 participants, including I, have ended a magical month as theatre...

Performance Research/Performance Practice-ASAP Event, UvA

Posted by Christopher Harris | 13th Dec 2017 | Dramaturgy, Netherlands, News, Transcultural Collaborations

ASAP is a new initiative of both staff members and students from the Theatre Studies department at the UvA in order to create space for exchange within and around the department of Theatre Studies.

Amsterdam’s Symposium On Cultural Translation

Posted by Christopher Harris | 21st Oct 2017 | Dramaturgy, Netherlands, Transcultural Collaborations, Translation

Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum asserted itself as the watering hole for a universal collective of people congregating on the subject of cultural translation within a dramaturgical framework, which alone begins as a intriguing idea, given that the collective arrived out of the rain from many corners of the globe.