Het Nationale Theater (HNT) (English: The National Theater) is the main theater company of
The Hague
The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital of ...
in the Netherlands.
Eric de Vroedt
Eric de Vroedt (Rotterdam, 1972) is a Dutch theater director, writer and actor.
Career
After his graduation from the Arnhem School of Acting in 1996 he realized his ambition was to be a director and writer rather than an actor.
He is an establ ...
is artistic leader of the theater company.
Het Nationale Theater was created on as a merger of
Het Nationale Toneel (a theater company), the
Koninklijke Schouwburg
The Koninklijke Schouwburg (literally translated: Royal Theater or Royal Playhouse) is a theater in the city center of The Hague. The theater was built in 1766 and has been in use as theater since 1804. From 2017 it is one of the theaters in use by ...
(the national theater building) and
Theater aan het Spui (the city theater building).
These three organizations worked together for several years under the name Toneelalliantie (English: Theatric Alliance), mostly active in The Hague.
Het Nationale Theater produces and presents classic plays, modern drama and actuality based programs, as well as cabaret, dance and music theater. The company is in 2018 one of the eight major theater companies subsidized by the national government and produces both for adults and youngsters (through NTjong). It is the largest traveling theater company from the Netherlands, although the Koninklijke Schouwburg and Theater aan het Spui function as its main locations.
Actors
Het Nationale Theater has an ensemble of actors as employees, which consisted in 2017-2018 of:
* Saman Amini
*
Jappe Claes
* Bram Coopmans
* Tamar van den Dop
*
Sallie Harmsen
*
Hein van der Heijden
*
Hannah Hoekstra
* Antoinette Jelgersma
* Werner Kolf
* Vincent Linthorst
* Anniek Pheifer
*
Mark Rietman
*
Betty Schuurman
* Pieter van der Sman
* Joris Smit
* Jaap Spijkers
* Bram Suijker
* Romana Vrede
*
Stefan de Walle
*
Emmanuel Ohene Boafo
External links
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References
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Culture in The Hague