NTGent
The Dutch Theater Gent (also Nederlands Toneel Gent , NTGent or NTG ) is a municipal theater founded in 1965 in the Flemish Ghent .
Venues
The main venue is the Koninklijke Nederlandse Schouwburg, built in 1899 with 600 seats in the heart of Ghent's old town. Other venues are the Minnemeers and the Arca, both with 200 seats each. There is also a cooperation with the Voorhuit cultural center and the Minard Theater.
The NTGent and the German-speaking area
The Swiss director Milo Rau has been the artistic director of NTGent since 2018 .
Belgian director Luk Perceval has been in-house director at NTGent since 2018. During Perceval's time as director of the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, the co-productions Front (2014) and Frucht des Zorns (2016) were created. In the 2018/19 season he is staging Black , a play about the exploitation of the Congo under King Leopold II , which forms the first part of the trilogy The Sorrows of Belgium .
Between his two directorships at NTGent, the Dutch director Johan Simons headed the Münchener Kammerspiele from 2010 to 2015 . From 2015 to 2017 he was director of the Ruhrtriennale . Since 2018 he has been artistic director at the Schauspielhaus Bochum .
The Belgian actor Benny Claessens , who works in Germany, was a member of the NTGent ensemble from 2015 to 2018.
Berlin-based director Ersan Mondtag is staging the performance De Living in the 2018/19 season .
Some German set designers have also worked on the NTGent. Bert Neuman designed the set for Platform (2006), Philip Bußmann for Platonov (2012), Katrin Brack for Sneeuw (2016) and Anette Kurz the set for Black (2019).
Directors
- Dré Poppe, 1965
- Albert Hanssens, 1967
- Walter Eysselynck, 1972
- Jacques Van Schoor, 1976
- Jef Demedts, 1977
- Hugo Van Den Berghe, 1991
- Jean-Pierre De Decker, 1997
- Martine Gos, Alain Pringels, Mathias Sercu in and Domien Van Der Meiren, 2000
- Johan Simons , 2005
- Wim Opbrouck, 2010
- Johan Simons , 2015
- Milo Rau , 2018
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ NTGent: NTGent. February 4, 2019, accessed February 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Lexicon - Rau, Milo. Retrieved February 11, 2019 .
- ^ NTGent: Luk Perceval. February 11, 2019, accessed on February 11, 2019 .
- ^ NTGent: Black / the Sorrows of Belgium I: Congo - Luk Perceval. April 30, 2018, accessed February 24, 2019 .
- ↑ lexicon - Simons, Johan. Retrieved February 11, 2019 .
- ^ Benny Claessens - Campo. Accessed February 11, 2019 .
- ^ NTGent: De Living - Ersan Mondtag. May 2, 2018, accessed February 21, 2019 .
- ↑ deSingel. Retrieved February 24, 2019 .
- ^ Hebbel am Ufer Berlin: HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin - Platonow, as part of "Male White Hetero". Retrieved February 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Sneeuw door NTGent. Retrieved February 24, 2019 (Dutch).