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UNFORTUNATELY THE PERFORMANCE CAN NOT BE PROGRAMMED DURING THE FESTIVAL

For his third collaboration with Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Simon Stone adapted pieces by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen to create one big family saga which follows three generations during various phases in their lives. The country retreat to which the title alludes plays a central role. We meet the family members from 1964, the moment at which the house is encased in scaffolding, to 2016, when it is engulfed by flames.
The result is a dizzying, non-chronological succession of scenes. An interplay of suppression, lies and reckonings in which the house is the only witness to the dark side of this petit bourgeois family. Simon Stone leads you to the most secret and painful places in their souls. While you enjoy breathtaking theatre!