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ITA Ensemble

The ITA Ensemble is the artistic capital of Internationaal Theater Amsterdam and the starting point for creating new productions. At its core is the top ensemble of actors that makes it possible to keep performances on the repertoire. Besides its own location in Amsterdam, the ensemble plays some 100 stages worldwide every year. With high-profile performances and attracting renowned directors from home and abroad, the way has been paved for a company with international allure. Since 1 September 2023, Eline Arbo has been Artistic Director; from 2001 to 2023, Ivo van Hove was at the helm of the ITA Ensemble (and former Toneelgroep Amsterdam).

Season 23|24

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ITA Ensemble Theater Prima Facie

Close Prima Facie ITA Ensemble / Eline Arbo

Prima Facie is a cutting monologue that caused a stir on West End and Broadway, and has been broadcast worldwide in cinemas by National Theatre Live.

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ITA Ensemble Theater Primeval and Other Times

Close Primeval and Other Times ITA Ensemble / Hotel Modern / Guy Cassiers

Guy Cassiers, together with Hotel Modern and 11 actors from the ensemble, creates the world of Primeval and Other Times.

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ITA Ensemble Theater Julie

Close Julie ITA Ensemble / Rebecca Frecknall

Young British star director Rebecca Frecknall creates a contemporary adaptation of August Strindberg's famous play.

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ITA Ensemble Theater The Laws

Close The Laws ITA Ensemble / Eline Arbo

In her debut novel The Laws, Connie Palmen tells the story of a woman in search of herself. Seven encounters with seven men over seven years.

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Toneelschuur Producties / Mateusz Staniak / Internationaal Theater Amsterdam Theater Huis van Troje

Close Huis van Troje Toneelschuur Producties / Mateusz Staniak / Internationaal Theater Amsterdam

The Trojan War is a myth, but the fall of Troy is a fact. But where do the stories begin and the facts cease to exist?

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ITA-junior / Wensley Piqué, Khouloud Zaher theater-jongeren All is energy jr.

Close All is energy jr. ITA-junior / Wensley Piqué, Khouloud Zaher

All is energy jr. is an exploration of the fifth most unknown element of nature, ETHER, with and by the next generation of warriors of light.

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ITA Ensemble Theater The Hours

Close The Hours ITA Ensemble / Eline Arbo

Eline Arbo brings De uren (The Hours), the novel by Michael Cunningham, to the stage.

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ITA Ensemble Theater Blood Wedding

Close Blood Wedding ITA Ensemble / Wim Vandekeybus

Driven by an indestructible love, the bride and her lover run off during the party. A savage manhunt is launched. The outcome is fatal.

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ITA Ensemble Theater My Heavenly Favourite

Close My Heavenly Favourite ITA Ensemble / Ivo van Hove

Ivo van Hove is the first director to adapt this heartbreaking and at the same time terrifying novel for the stage.

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ITA Ensemble Theater Medea

Close Medea ITA Ensemble / Simon Stone

In Simon Stone’s version, he combines the tragedy of Euripides with the true story of an American woman who killed her children in the nineties.

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ITA Ensemble Theater Judas

Close Judas ITA Ensemble / Robert Icke

The name Judas is familiar to many of us. The traitor. The scorned man. A man condemned century after century for his cunning cowardice and who to this day deserves no pardon - or - is that perhaps half a story?

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ITA Ensemble Theater Client E. Busken

Close Client E. Busken ITA Ensemble / Maria Kraakman

Maria Kraakman made her debut as director with Client E. Busken, a monologue played by Gijs Scholten van Aschat and musician Jip van den Dool. The text is based on the latest novel by Jeroen Brouwers.

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ITA Ensemble Theater Birds of a Kind

Close Birds of a Kind ITA Ensemble / Alize Zandwijk

When the German-Jewish Eitan and the American-Arab Wahida happen to meet in the library of New York, they fall in love instantly. But is their relationship likely to succeed against the backdrop of the decades-long Israeli-Arab conflict?

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ITA Ensemble Theater The Doctor

Close The Doctor ITA Ensemble / Robert Icke

Robert Icke has a warm heart for the classics, which he adapts in his own personal and radical way. Once again, he is making a contemporary adaptation, this time of Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler.

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ITA Ensemble Theater penthesilea

Close penthesilea ITA Ensemble / Eline Arbo

In this searing drama about a fatal love, a blistering passion churns unstoppably to the surface.

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ITA Ensemble Theater Lehman Trilogy

Close Lehman Trilogy ITA Ensemble / Guy Cassiers

Slavery and industrialisation, war and new technological developments: no matter what is happening in America and even worldwide, the Lehmans always know how to make good money from it.

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on Tour

ITA Ensemble Theater the damned

Close the damned ITA Ensemble

This theatrical adaptation, based on a film script by Italian film director Luchino Visconti, shows how a family of rich German industrialists is fatally corrupted in its collaboration with the Nazi party that has come to power.

Ensemble

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Achraf Koutet

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Bart Slegers

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Chris Nietvelt

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Daniël Kolf

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Eefje Paddenburg

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Eelco Smits

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Gijs Scholten van Aschat

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Hans Kesting

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Hélène Devos

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Ilke Paddenburg

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Janni Goslinga

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Jesse Mensah

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Maarten Heijmans

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Majd Mardo

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Maria Kraakman

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Marieke Heebink

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Minne Koole

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‘Ntianu Stuger

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Steven Van Watermeulen

Directors

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Ivo van Hove

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Eline Arbo

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Guy Cassiers

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Rebecca Frecknall

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Robert Icke

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Alize Zandwijk

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Wim Vandekeybus

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Maria Kraakman

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Simon Stone

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Mateusz Staniak

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.

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The story, the actors, the makers' ideas, the secrets: you will learn all about the show.

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Read more about the story, direction, scenography, music and costumes of our ensemble performances.

Awards

Overview of awards that the ensemble has won since 1987.

Repertory

An overview of all the productions the ITA ensemble has played from 1987 to the present.

Archive

The ensemble from 1987 till 2018.