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Since the appointment of Ivo van Hove in 2001, the ITA ensemble (formerly Toneelgroep Amsterdam) has paved the way for a company with international allure with a series of high-profile performances and attracting renowned directors from home and abroad. The core is the top ensemble of actors that make it possible to keep performances on the repertoire. In addition to its own location in Amsterdam, the ensemble plays around 100 stages a year worldwide.
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Theater ITA–Ensemble Freud
Close Freud ITA–Ensemble / Ivo van Hove
In the late 1950s, French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre wrote The Freud Scenario, at the request of Hollywood director John Huston. Sartre is completely immersed in the subject, that he writes a script for a seven hour movie. Huston reduces the many hundreds of pages to a two-hour film. Because ...
Theater ITA–Ensemble The Homecoming
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Following on from Uit het leven van marionetten, Nanouk Leopold is now directing the ITA ensemble in The Homecoming, one of the most frequently performed plays by English playwright and Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter.
Theater ITA–Ensemble Children of Nora
Close Children of Nora ITA–Ensemble
01 Apr '20 to 17 May '20
Everyone knows about the argument - the big argument, the ferocious, final argument, the one that ends the relationship.
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Theater ITA–Ensemble The good hope
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11 Jun '20 to 21 Jun '20
Simon Stone has relocated the central fishing village in Op hoop van zegen to the arrival hall of an airport, where family and friends await the return of their loved ones. With fast, razor-sharp dialogue, he transforms the ultimate Dutch drama classic into a story from and about our time.
Theater ITA–Ensemble Who Killed My Father
Close Who Killed My Father ITA–Ensemble
07 May '20 to 17 May '20
Young writer Édouard Louis (1992) is the greatest literary sensation in France since Michel Houellebecq. With his autobiographical debut The End of Eddy, he looked back on his tormented youth as a young gay man in the forgotten underclass of society: the north of France, plagued by unemployment.
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Theater ITA–Ensemble A little life
Close A little life ITA–Ensemble / Ivo van Hove
06 Dec '19 to 26 Apr '20
No book has captivated and moved millions of readers during the past few years like A little life by American author Hanya Yanagihara.
Theater ITA–Ensemble The year of cancer
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The year of cancer is one of director Luk Perceval's favourite novels. The balance between big emotions and banality, between tense expectations and daily burdens forms the basis of his reading. 'If you don't go and watch this, you are denying yourself happiness.' - NRC *****
Theater ITA–Ensemble La voix humaine
Close La voix humaine ITA–Ensemble
With The human voice (La voix humaine), Jean Cocteau wrote the ultimate farewell monologue. A woman speaks to her ex on the phone in a last attempt to undo their breakup. Gradually, she realizes that the lover has chosen another for good. This moving monologue premiered in 2009 and has since th...
Theater ITA–Ensemble The wood
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04 Dec '19 to 30 Jan '20
As a child, Jeroen Brouwers spends time in a Japanese POW camp in Indonesia. After the war, he is sent to boarding school in the Netherlands. It's a prison camp and a concentration camp rolled into one.
Theater ITA–Ensemble Medea
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Simon Stone made a radical adaptation of Euripides's Greek tragedy about the daughter of the king, who is replaced with a younger woman by her husband and kills her children out of revenge. He turned it into a contemporary story. He let himself be inspired by the true story of an American docto...
Theater ITA–Ensemble Falling man
Close Falling man ITA–Ensemble
18 Mar '20 to 28 Mar '20
Don DeLillo is the most eminent chronicler of his country and his time. In numerous novels and stories, he researches the often destructive impact of large events and social changes – such as the Cold War and nuclear threat, the digital age and globalization – on the lives of ordinary people.
Theater ITA–Ensemble The cherry orchard
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After having stayed in Paris for several years, the widow Ranevskaya returns to her family home in Russia. She encounters a changed world. The family's debts have become so great that the house and estate will have to be auctioned. Businessman Lopakhin sees a way out. He proposes to cut down th...
Theater ITA–Ensemble Ibsen house
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Based on Ibsen, Simon Stone writes and directs a grand family epic about the troublesome but inevitable coexistence of different generations under one roof.
Theater ITA–Ensemble Death in Venice
Close Death in Venice ITA–Ensemble
16 Apr '20 to 07 Jun '20
Thomas Mann is thirty-six when he meets a young man during a holiday in Venice. The event inspires him to write one of his most famous works, Death in Venice.
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Theater ITA–Ensemble Oedipus
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13 Jan '20 to 08 Feb '20
King Oedipus is the perfect tragedy. In the wake of many before him, Robert Icke – who previously rewrote the Oresteia in London in a magnificent way – directs his own contemporary, free adaptation.
Theater ITA–Ensemble Husbands and wives
Close Husbands and wives ITA–Ensemble
One day you look up and it's bad. Jack and Sally are getting divorced. We don't want to make a big thing about it, they claim. It is a mutual decision, we're both fine. But for their friends Gabe and Judy, it is an incredible shock. Is our marriage as good as we think it is, they wonder. Jack a...
Theater ITA–Ensemble Roman tragedies
Close Roman tragedies ITA–Ensemble
Ivo van Hove's epic is 'one of the most audacious Shakespeare productions of the modern era' (Time Out), and immerses you in the midst of the multimedia action.
Achraf Koutet
Bart Slegers
Celia Nufaar
Frieda Pittoors
Gijs Scholten van Aschat
Ramsey Nasr
Majd Mardo
Aus Greidanus jr.
Maria Kraakman
Hugo Koolschijn
Janni Goslinga
Fred Goessens
Hélène Devos
Maarten Heijmans
Ilke Paddenburg
Robert de Hoog
Hans Kesting
Chris Nietvelt
Marieke Heebink
Steven Van Watermeulen
Nanouk Leopold
Robert Icke
Simon Stone
Simon McBurney
Julien Gosselin
History of the ensemble
At the ensemble, tradition and innovation go hand in hand. They are the pillars of a company that is constantly in motion and presents itself explicitly at the heart of Amsterdam at Leidseplein.
Overview of awards that the ensemble has won since 1987.
An overview of all the productions the ITA ensemble has played from 1987 to the present.
The ensemble from 1987 till 2018.
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