Toneelgroep Amsterdam is the largest repertory company in the

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. Its home base is the

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Stadsschouwburg The Stadsschouwburg (; Dutch: ''Municipal Theatre'') of Amsterdam is the name of a theatre building at the Leidseplein in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The building is in the neo-Renaissance style dating back to 1894, and is the former home of the Na ...

, a classical 19th century theatre building in the heart of Amsterdam.

History

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The Dutch Company Toneelgroep Amsterdam started in 1987 through a merger of and with Gerardjan Rijnders as its artistic director. His montage-method of creating plays and his avant-garde stagings of classic plays were very influential in the Netherlands, as well as abroad. Since 2000 the company is led by Flemish director Ivo van Hove. He and his long-time designer

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broke through the confinements of the classical stage to rediscover the stage as a "location." For their production '' Faces'' (an adaptation of John Cassavetes's film) the audience watched the show lying in beds.

International

Many of Toneelgroep Amsterdam's productions travel abroad. For instance, van Hove's adaptation of several of Shakespeare's plays, presented under the title ''Roman Tragedies'', was shown at the major European theatre festivals (

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, Festival d'Avignon, Theaterformen). ''

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'', another adaptation of a Cassavetes film, was shown at the

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in New York in December 2008, and at Melbourne Festival in Australia in October 2010, which was van Hove's Australian debut.Nilsson-Polias, Carl (2010),

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, Issue 99. http://realtimearts.net/article/issue99/10008 "Ivo van Hove's work has been groundbreaking in opening up audiences' understanding of classic texts and films. His work is unique, raw, shocking, surprising, hilarious – everything you want theatre to be – and he doesn't shy away from the ugly or the profane. In a word, stunning, with a capital ‘S’." (

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Company

Director:

Ivo van Hove Ivo van Hove (born 28 October 1958) is a Belgian theatre director known as the artistic director of Toneelgroep Amsterdam in the Netherlands and for his Off-Broadway avant-garde experimental theatre productions. On Broadway, he has directed re ...

Ensemble: Hélène Devos, Jip van den Dool,

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, Robert de Hoog,

Hans Kesting Hans Kesting (born 6 October 1960) is a Dutch actor. He appeared in more than fifty films since 1987. He was diagnosed with HIV in 1996. In 2016 he was awarded the Louis d'Or The Louis d'or () is any number of French coins first introduced by L ...

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Ramsey Nasr Ramsey Nasr (born 28 January 1974, Rotterdam) is a Dutch author and actor of mixed descent, half Palestinian, half Dutch. He was '' Dichter des Vaderlands'' (Poet of the Fatherland; an unofficial title for the Dutch poet laureate) between Januar ...

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, Frieda Pittoors, Halina Reijn,

Gijs Scholten van Aschat Gijs Scholten van Aschat (born 16 September 1959) is a Dutch actor. He has appeared in more than sixty films since 1980. He is the father of Reinout Scholten van Aschat Reinout Scholten van Aschat (born 9 November 1989) is a Dutch actor. ...

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, Bart Slegers en Eelco Smits.

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is an established guest director at Toneelgroep Amsterdam.

References

External links

Official websiteToneelgroep Amsterdam's YouTube-channel
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