Care & Welfare

*Pyrrha Throws a Stone*, a powerful monologue directed by Olivier Diepenhorst and written by Emmie Kollau, tells a story set shortly after World War II, while at the same time drawing a clear connection to the present.

In *The Drama*, director and theater artist Florian Myjer dissects our class-based society in a theatrical way, with humor and painful honesty. Because the idea that the Netherlands supposedly has no classes is a myth that has long since past event debunked. Yet we rarely talk about it. But how do we talk to each other about class? The Drama opens up a conversation we often avoid and exposes the mechanisms that divide us.

In SEXODUS we check an actress on the threshold of her fortieth year of life. She knows: if she wants to stay in the Western world, she has to keep looking like she's twenty-four until she's sixty. So she tries to adapt. Again. And again.

The school party is in full swing. Suddenly chaos ensues: a fight, a scream.... and a knife. What happened? In Time Machine, you end up in a high school where time can be stopped and rewound. Who was stabbed and who did it?

Nothing Left On Blue is a penetrating, tragicomic choreography that confronts, unsettles and hopefully stimulates.

On a day of remembrance, old acquaintances come together and emotions run high. What is meant to be a solemn moment quickly turns into miscommunication, awkward situations and unexpected outbursts. A sharp and recognizable comedy about mourning, relationships and everything in between.

*Pyrrha Throws a Stone*, a powerful monologue directed by Olivier Diepenhorst and written by Emmie Kollau, tells a story set shortly after World War II, while at the same time drawing a clear connection to the present.

What happens when you put the different groups of people with whom you have made documentary theater in the past 10 years together on a play? Ex-homeless people, Stratummers, refugees, the elderly, Latinos, youth & clients of the GGZE. They all share the play together during MES FEST.

All the Blue of Heaven is a new musical theater piece based on Mélissa Da Costa's bestseller. Buddy Vedder and Shelley Bos play Emile and Joanne, two strangers who leave together in a camper when Emile is diagnosed with young Alzheimer's disease.

On a day of remembrance, old acquaintances come together and emotions run high. What is meant to be a solemn moment quickly turns into miscommunication, awkward situations and unexpected outbursts. A sharp and recognizable comedy about mourning, relationships and everything in between.

It is a topic that touches and fascinates us all: sleep. In De Slaapwetenschapper, one of the Netherlands' best-known sleep scientists, Merijn van de Laar, takes you into the wonderful world of sleep and dreams.

In *The Drama*, director and theater artist Florian Myjer dissects our class-based society in a theatrical way, with humor and painful honesty. Because the idea that the Netherlands supposedly has no classes is a myth that has long since past event debunked. Yet we rarely talk about it. But how do we talk to each other about class? The Drama opens up a conversation we often avoid and exposes the mechanisms that divide us.

What do we really know about TBS? Criminal lawyer Job Knoester gives a unique theatercollege into a world that remains closed to many. Who ends up in a TBS clinic and why? And who ultimately poses a greater risk: an ex-TBS patient or an ex-convict?

You are young, just starting out in life, and suddenly there is fear. Not for a moment, but always. In BANG, Hanneke van der Paardt dissects the years in which everything wavers and nothing is certain. A raw, sharp and comforting monologue about fear, thinking and trying to move on.

In SEXODUS we check an actress on the threshold of her fortieth year of life. She knows: if she wants to stay in the Western world, she has to keep looking like she's twenty-four until she's sixty. So she tries to adapt. Again. And again.

A jovial truck driver, an undisguised dominatrix, a shy accountant, an activist theater maker. This is how people check them in the outside world. In here, they are all people who didn't know it anymore.

The school party is in full swing. Suddenly chaos ensues: a fight, a scream.... and a knife. What happened? In Time Machine, you end up in a high school where time can be stopped and rewound. Who was stabbed and who did it?

*Pyrrha Throws a Stone*, a powerful monologue directed by Olivier Diepenhorst and written by Emmie Kollau, tells a story set shortly after World War II, while at the same time drawing a clear connection to the present.

What happens when you put the different groups of people with whom you have made documentary theater in the past 10 years together on a play? Ex-homeless people, Stratummers, refugees, the elderly, Latinos, youth & clients of the GGZE. They all share the play together during MES FEST.

Steef de Jong, Ilse Warringa, Rop Verheijen, Daniel Cornelissen, and Thor Braun come together in an irresistible mix of operetta, punk, and cardboard magic. Theater director Steef de Jong throws Offenbach’s 19th-century operetta classic *L’île de Tulipatan* into the blender and serves up a cardboard operetta extravaganza full of energy, humor, and lightning-fast dual roles. He pulls out all the stops, with a top-notch cast and a live band. “Tulip Town” is in town! This is operetta like you’ve never seen it before.

In BURGER we meet Becky, a participation officer of a small municipality who is tasked with re-engaging the angry citizens of the Bloemenbuurt neighborhood in local democracy.

In *The Drama*, director and theater artist Florian Myjer dissects our class-based society in a theatrical way, with humor and painful honesty. Because the idea that the Netherlands supposedly has no classes is a myth that has long since past event debunked. Yet we rarely talk about it. But how do we talk to each other about class? The Drama opens up a conversation we often avoid and exposes the mechanisms that divide us.

The United States is on the eve of the midterm elections, or the midterms. Will this be the turning point in American democracy? Will Trump seize power again? Or will the Democrats finally manage to force a comeback?