DE HOE

How do you want to speak? Intense right?
You want to speak intensely don't you?
How do you want to live? Grand and compelling, right?
I have always played life intensely.
Everything I know about love, I know by playing love. 
And then it happened, in the hubris, always the hubris. 
Then it happened, then I forgot my lines, 
then suddenly I didn't know what to say.

Opening Night is the first major performance of DE HOE, written by all the writers and played by all the actors, across three generations. Influenced by the exceptional film work of John Cassavetes and the acting of Gena Rowlands, DE HOE plays the excess, but also the love and the vulnerability. Opening Night is a collective search for a “New Emotionality” in an emotionally saturated society. Flirting with sentimentality play on life and death. Spontaneous, and yet directed. Sincere and yet not.

Opening Night is every night's premiere thrown into question. In desperately filling the void left when an actor loses his words, seven actors together undertake a feverish, tragicomic search for how to be as truthful as possible. Last year, Opening Night was already shown at the Stadsschouwburg. We present this reprise in the intimate setting of nona.