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This performance features English and Dutch subtitles.
Forty years after the publication of Frans Kellendonk's controversial novel, director Koen Verheijden brings the story back to the stage. In his characteristic, layered language, Kellendonk captured a year in the life of the broken family Gijselhart. A family that grows into a penetrating mirror of polarized Dutch society at the end of the twentieth century. And forty years later, that image is still surprisingly recognizable.
The Gijselhart family wants nothing more than to belong together, but the harder they try, the further they drift apart. Because as we watch this derailed family, the question inevitably arises: do we really think we are doing better as a society than we were in Kellendonk's time?
In Verheijden, we…
This performance features English and Dutch subtitles.
Forty years after the publication of Frans Kellendonk's controversial novel, director Koen Verheijden brings the story back to the stage. In his characteristic, layered language, Kellendonk captured a year in the life of the broken family Gijselhart. A family that grows into a penetrating mirror of polarized Dutch society at the end of the twentieth century. And forty years later, that image is still surprisingly recognizable.
The Gijselhart family wants nothing more than to belong together, but the harder they try, the further they drift apart. Because as we watch this derailed family, the question inevitably arises: do we really think we are doing better as a society than we were in Kellendonk's time?
In Verheijden’s first performance following the success of *Jongensuren*, he opts for a grotesque, at times rawly comical acting style in which humor and discomfort coexist side by side. Not to pass judgment, but to reveal how people can lose each other—precisely when they’re trying to hold on to one another.
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- Wednesday, November 18, 2026 8 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Buy tickets