Programme per day

The Esperanza – once a glamourous cruise ship where the music of Papa Tango ruled supreme – now lies rusting away in a dock. Actress Meral Polat and tango king Carel Kraayenhof enrich this musical theatre performance marking the 10th anniversary of Via Berlin, who made their debut at Oerol in 2009 with Een Mond Vol Zand.

A multi-disciplinary diptych that confronts us with the absurd fragility of life. During a surrealistic audio tour, we are simultaneously observer and actor, and our surroundings become an instant film set. The second part of the show is a disarming, filmic and factual or fictional portrait of eight ambitious young adults.

Welcome to the future. Technostalgia takes us on an archaeological voyage of discovery through the deserted landscape of Mars – the Pompeii of the future. A servant left behind looks back with us at man’s vain attempts to design a new world here. (English version is available on request at the location).

A podcast walk across a dike as an exercise for man in being a thing among things. Lose yourself in the perspectives offered by the lifeless landscape elements around you, and let your associations roam free.

A surprising, visual mosaic narrative that unfolds on a real campsite. Watch from a helicopter view and get new insights into the temporary society we call camping. Experience the great expectations and deep existential crises of the campers. See how man is always in search of a destination.

An exercise in seclusion, in being alone. In this production, we move from the outside world to the inside, on the way to complete seclusion – as if the world ceases to exist. Can you be alone with yourself? Or will you dissolve into an endless vacuum?

A podcast walk across a dike as an exercise for man in being a thing among things. Lose yourself in the perspectives offered by the lifeless landscape elements around you, and let your associations roam free.

A podcast walk across a dike as an exercise for man in being a thing among things. Lose yourself in the perspectives offered by the lifeless landscape elements around you, and let your associations roam free.

Terschelling is an island that is constantly transforming — its beaches, dunes, forests, and dikes are an exposition of nature’s dynamic and ever-evolving landscape. ‘Pic Your Day’ is a collaborative photo project that aims to capture the island’s distinct environment through the eye of your mobile phone. With the cooperation of state forestry, twenty lookout posts have been installed across the island where we invite Oerol goers to stop, look, take a picture, and treasure a moment within nature’s rhythm, all while the festival beats on. By uploading your image to www.picyourday.com this moment becomes a part of a collective digital painting, offers your unique perspective, and adds to the story of the Island.

HERO is about a girl who can’t sleep. The world is crying out for help, but who is responding? This girl has waited long enough for a superhero to come and save the world. It’s time to put on the cape herself.

A multi-disciplinary diptych that confronts us with the absurd fragility of life. During a surrealistic audio tour, we are simultaneously observer and actor, and our surroundings become an instant film set. The second part of the show is a disarming, filmic and factual or fictional portrait of eight ambitious young adults.

Welcome to the future. Technostalgia takes us on an archaeological voyage of discovery through the deserted landscape of Mars – the Pompeii of the future. A servant left behind looks back with us at man’s vain attempts to design a new world here. (English version is available on request at the location).

An exercise in seclusion, in being alone. In this production, we move from the outside world to the inside, on the way to complete seclusion – as if the world ceases to exist. Can you be alone with yourself? Or will you dissolve into an endless vacuum?

Iedere middag wordt in Futuristen: De Talkshow een nieuw toekomstvisioen onder de loep genomen. Voorziet ruimtelandbouw in onze voedselbehoefte van morgen? Of beschikken toekomstige bedrijfskantines over een 3D-printer voor onze boterhammen? Duik mee in een curieuze wereld van zelfrijdende auto’s, seksrobots, kwantumcomputers en CRISPR-Cas. Van vrijdag 14 t/m zaterdag 22 juni brengen De Futuristen in De Dome elke dag om 12 uur een gloednieuwe talkshow, en elke avond een theatervoorstelling over hetzelfde thema.

Everything Must Go is a musical production about two people who decide to get rid of all their possessions. Until there is nothing left at all.

Jacob and his daughter Nour are searching for a safe place to stay. During their long, dangerous journey, Jacob tells the most wonderful, funniest, most imaginative stories, transforming their harsh travels into a great adventure: a fairy tale in which Nour is the princess.

HERO is about a girl who can’t sleep. The world is crying out for help, but who is responding? This girl has waited long enough for a superhero to come and save the world. It’s time to put on the cape herself.

For this edition of the Atelier Route, Oerol and Over het IJ Festival are working with other partners to develop new talent, and have chosen three makers: Marinke Eijgenraam (Schweigman&); Warre Simons (Kameroperahuis) and Igor Vrebac (De Nieuwe Oost). During the Atelier Route, the makers and festivals invite their audiences to take a look at the blueprints for new works.

Music-maker Eva van Pelt’s work is set apart by her search for a different kind of contact with her audiences. In HIER, she searches for the purest form of this contact by spending a whole year playing concerts for just one person. What happens when performer and audience face each other as individuals, a whole song long?

Authoritarian leaders, algorithms and globalisation. Democracies are under pressure from all sides. Something has to change if we want a fairer distribution of power. But what exactly – and how? An interactive performance that takes us along on an exploration of history, the present and the future of democracy.

There have been rites in all parts of the world and all eras. But what rites lurk behind our everyday lives? Wetten met Koppen delve into the magical world of these hidden rites. What are we trying to celebrate, comprehend, let go, or find? As in the modern age we are always pushed for time, they came up with the ‘powernap to the higher self’.

Every day, hundreds of people cross our path. How can we feel so alone in a world that is so interconnected? Through dance and performance, performance collective KNOT Kollektiv go in search of the most fundamental form of connection: laughter. Laughing is a kind of internal jogging, and can spark great expectations.

In Mezelfie, you can switch your perspective with that of a camera. Put on a VR headset and get a bird’s eye view of yourself walking along the streets and across the beach; learn to control your body in a different way. An interactive performance by artist duo Mardulier & Deprez that plays with our self-image in a realistic virtual space.

At sea level, it is 15,419 feet – approximately 4.7 km – to the curvature of the earth. This musical, mechanical production invites us to (re)discover the sensation of peering at the horizon. Is something coming closer? Or moving further away? Can you believe your eyes – or your ears?

From a battered denim jacket to an extravagant, glittering dress. Our clothes are an expression of who we are, who we want to be – and sometimes who we have to be. Performance company Zwermers have created an ode to colourful, versatile human beings. What does our ‘second skin’ say about us? Does the person wear the clothes, or do the clothes wear the person?

Op de pop-uptoren Rise & Shine ervaar je aan den lijve hoe het is om groot applaus te ontvangen. Sara Nuytemans zoekt naar de gedachten achter onze acties: kun je dat wel? Ook zomaar? Of verstop je je het liefst zo snel mogelijk? Zegt dit iets over hoe je over jezelf denkt? Hoe voel jij je gewaardeerd in het leven?

Een kunstenaar uit het Expeditie programma en een wetenschapper - geselecteerd door de Waddenacademie - ontmoeten elkaar in een college-setting. Beiden werken ze vanuit hun eigen vakgebied aan hetzelfde onderwerp of kijken ze vanuit een ander perspectief. Dat zorgt voor wrijving, een lach en nieuwe inzichten. Aan theatermaker Erik Willems de taak om dit in goede banen te leiden. De Expedities zijn beeldende projecten verspreid over het hele eiland waarbij kunst, natuur en wetenschap elkaar ontmoeten. De projecten gaat over de relatie tussen mens en natuur. Het is de plek waar kunstenaars in hun werk onderzoek doen naar de veranderlijke natuur en het landschap. Welke emotionele waarde heeft het? En wat als dat vertrouwde landschap aan grote veranderingen onderhevig is? Welke stappen gaan wij dan nemen?

An exercise in seclusion, in being alone. In this production, we move from the outside world to the inside, on the way to complete seclusion – as if the world ceases to exist. Can you be alone with yourself? Or will you dissolve into an endless vacuum?

Storytelling is perhaps the most elementary form of theatre. During Oerol, Amsterdam storytelling stage Mezrab takes us into a new story every day, accompanied by live music. During the first weekend of Oerol the stories are in Dutch, and from Thursday 20 June they will be told in English.

Religion. The word alone can be enough to give young people the shakes. But since the Netherlands massively lost its faith, we’ve also lost our way. Which is why, specially for Oerol, part of Studentenkoor Amsterdam (SKA) has been re-christened as a guerilla choir. Let’s sing and be baptised as a pious subject of the collective isolation.

2018 was het jaar waarin het besef van de plastic soep en afvalhopen is gegroeid, maar tegelijkertijd bestellen we de gekste prullaria van over de hele wereld voor ons alledaags gemak. In januari 2019 ging het mis op zee, de MSC Zoe verloor in een hevige storm meer dan 200 volle vrachtcontainers in de Noordzee. Dit zorgde in de eerste paar uren voor een verhitte jut actie op de Waddeneilanden. Maar al snel realiseerde men zich dat dit niet meer jutten was, maar opruimen. Duizenden vrijwilligers kwamen massaal naar de eilanden. Op de Betonning kun je meedoen aan workshops om van gejut plastic nieuwe voorwerpen te maken door ze om te smelten. Doe mee, kom kijken bij JUT, luister, leer en wees de oplossing!

A multi-disciplinary diptych that confronts us with the absurd fragility of life. During a surrealistic audio tour, we are simultaneously observer and actor, and our surroundings become an instant film set. The second part of the show is a disarming, filmic and factual or fictional portrait of eight ambitious young adults.

Welcome to the future. Technostalgia takes us on an archaeological voyage of discovery through the deserted landscape of Mars – the Pompeii of the future. A servant left behind looks back with us at man’s vain attempts to design a new world here. (English version is available on request at the location).

HERO is about a girl who can’t sleep. The world is crying out for help, but who is responding? This girl has waited long enough for a superhero to come and save the world. It’s time to put on the cape herself.

Music-maker Eva van Pelt’s work is set apart by her search for a different kind of contact with her audiences. In HIER, she searches for the purest form of this contact by spending a whole year playing concerts for just one person. What happens when performer and audience face each other as individuals, a whole song long?

A podcast walk across a dike as an exercise for man in being a thing among things. Lose yourself in the perspectives offered by the lifeless landscape elements around you, and let your associations roam free.

Every day, hundreds of people cross our path. How can we feel so alone in a world that is so interconnected? Through dance and performance, performance collective KNOT Kollektiv go in search of the most fundamental form of connection: laughter. Laughing is a kind of internal jogging, and can spark great expectations.

We crave, push one another away and then grab hold again. Do we lose ourselves in the other or stay on our own island? What does the gaze or touch of another do to you? Eighteen young people draw on their own experiences for this physical, musical production on intimacy and awkwardness.

Using just their voices as weapons, the performers from KONVOOI explore all aspects of war. A scream, a laugh, a quick whispered prayer. At times these sounds result in melodies, at others they ebb away. A philosophical, absurd trip dealing with the question of whether insight always leads to morality.

Ze komen vanuit heel Europa en studeren nu bijna een jaar aan de Fontys Academy for Circus and Performance Art (ACAPA). Als afsluiting van hun eerste studiejaar komen ze naar Terschelling om speciaal voor Oerol een voorstelling te maken. Deze top talenten zullen de straten van West Terschelling en Midsland en zelfs een keertje de Betonning vullen met hun energie.

In de talkshow Vangst van de Dag op de Betonning maak je dagelijks kennis met het nieuwste van het nieuwste; de verse vangst van Oerol! Kom kijken naar korte optredens van een fonkelnieuwe generatie artiesten. En in de rubriek ‘Kill Your Darlings’ laten acteurs een hele verrassende kant van zichzelf zien. Dit alles in goede banen geleid door de energieke host Jennifer Muntslag.

In a unique cross-over between contemporary circus and modern dance, Screws takes us on a poetic, absurd voyage through ten micro-performances that repeatedly inquire into the relationship between object and body, each time from a different perspective.

A podcast walk across a dike as an exercise for man in being a thing among things. Lose yourself in the perspectives offered by the lifeless landscape elements around you, and let your associations roam free.

When Prometheus – giving the middle finger to king of the gods Zeus – brought fire to man from Mount Olympus… do you think he was thinking about drawing up an end-user agreement? And if he could have seen what we’d end up using it for, do you think he would still have given it to us?

Enter the bright green testbed of Botanical Wasteland. A futuristic biotope full of plastic waste and techno junk, where man is no longer central. Where everything is interlinked and the boundaries between nature, technology, the body and identity have been eliminated. A new world, unlike any you have seen on stage before.

The Esperanza – once a glamourous cruise ship where the music of Papa Tango ruled supreme – now lies rusting away in a dock. Actress Meral Polat and tango king Carel Kraayenhof enrich this musical theatre performance marking the 10th anniversary of Via Berlin, who made their debut at Oerol in 2009 with Een Mond Vol Zand.

There have been rites in all parts of the world and all eras. But what rites lurk behind our everyday lives? Wetten met Koppen delve into the magical world of these hidden rites. What are we trying to celebrate, comprehend, let go, or find? As in the modern age we are always pushed for time, they came up with the ‘powernap to the higher self’.

Michiel Lieuwma reveals his brilliant, absurd scenarios for the future using a bizarre network of slides, diagrams, illustrations and tables. Get ready for a wild, satirical trip through the deepest recesses of the PowerPoint presentation. Will we be able to save humanity, or is destruction already inevitable?

What is the power of standing up for what you believe in? Dutch-Moroccan Roufaida has a musical answer to this question. In her warm – at times dark – pop numbers, she talks about loyalty, love, alienation and resistance. Sounds like? The driving guitars of Fink, the wondrousness of Bjork and the space of early Radiohead.

In Mezelfie, you can switch your perspective with that of a camera. Put on a VR headset and get a bird’s eye view of yourself walking along the streets and across the beach; learn to control your body in a different way. An interactive performance by artist duo Mardulier & Deprez that plays with our self-image in a realistic virtual space.

From a battered denim jacket to an extravagant, glittering dress. Our clothes are an expression of who we are, who we want to be – and sometimes who we have to be. Performance company Zwermers have created an ode to colourful, versatile human beings. What does our ‘second skin’ say about us? Does the person wear the clothes, or do the clothes wear the person?

Every day, hundreds of people cross our path. How can we feel so alone in a world that is so interconnected? Through dance and performance, performance collective KNOT Kollektiv go in search of the most fundamental form of connection: laughter. Laughing is a kind of internal jogging, and can spark great expectations.

Mezrab, het huis voor storytelling, neemt haar beste vertellers mee naar het eiland, om jou alle hoeken van storytelling te laten zien. Van verhalen voor kinderen tot krachtige Perzische mythes van het Koningsboek, van hilarische en intieme waargebeurde verhalen tot een mix van storytelling met muziek, dans en theater.

Orkater Collective Lars Doberman invite us to take part in a celebration of celebrations. An associative, sensual coming together in Terschelling’s dense woods. With colourful backdrops, pulsating drums and a broad spectrum of live music, driven by the heartbeat; the rhythm of everything that lives.

In the seemingly cheerful, relaxed co-existence of a mother and her two daughters, the truth gradually bubbles to the surface. Is their love a strong enough foundation? A family story that playfully reveals the tragedy of a dramatically charged past.

Püwawau is a Maori word that means “spirit voices heard in running water”. Flemish-Dutch singer Chantal Acda uses her voice as a reflective space. In this electro-acoustic musical theatre performance, she investigates the universal factors that connect or influence voices, such as heritage, language and tearjerkers.

If you like to daydream and listen attentively at the same time, Sebastian Plano is for you. His neo-classical pieces create a calming atmosphere, but at the same time are crammed full of interesting idiosyncrasies. At the age of seven, Argentinean Sebastian Plano was already playing cello, and he wrote his first piece aged eleven. He now lives in Berlin, where he is involved in the world of new electronics. His modern work can be compared to artists such as Ólafur Arnalds, Max Richter and Nils Frahm. Escape the bustle of the festival and get lost among the flowers of the fields to his soundscapes and neoclassical music.

A multi-disciplinary diptych that confronts us with the absurd fragility of life. During a surrealistic audio tour, we are simultaneously observer and actor, and our surroundings become an instant film set. The second part of the show is a disarming, filmic and factual or fictional portrait of eight ambitious young adults.

A podcast walk across a dike as an exercise for man in being a thing among things. Lose yourself in the perspectives offered by the lifeless landscape elements around you, and let your associations roam free.

Welcome to the future. Technostalgia takes us on an archaeological voyage of discovery through the deserted landscape of Mars – the Pompeii of the future. A servant left behind looks back with us at man’s vain attempts to design a new world here. (English version is available on request at the location).

Religion. The word alone can be enough to give young people the shakes. But since the Netherlands massively lost its faith, we’ve also lost our way. Which is why, specially for Oerol, part of Studentenkoor Amsterdam (SKA) has been re-christened as a guerilla choir. Let’s sing and be baptised as a pious subject of the collective isolation.

Jacob and his daughter Nour are searching for a safe place to stay. During their long, dangerous journey, Jacob tells the most wonderful, funniest, most imaginative stories, transforming their harsh travels into a great adventure: a fairy tale in which Nour is the princess.

A podcast walk across a dike as an exercise for man in being a thing among things. Lose yourself in the perspectives offered by the lifeless landscape elements around you, and let your associations roam free.

Michiel Lieuwma reveals his brilliant, absurd scenarios for the future using a bizarre network of slides, diagrams, illustrations and tables. Get ready for a wild, satirical trip through the deepest recesses of the PowerPoint presentation. Will we be able to save humanity, or is destruction already inevitable?

A podcast walk across a dike as an exercise for man in being a thing among things. Lose yourself in the perspectives offered by the lifeless landscape elements around you, and let your associations roam free.

THE END invites us to zoom in on details from the rhythm of everyday life. At three different places on the island and three specific moments in the day, THE END offers philosophical and poetic perspectives on the phenomenon of transformation.

Music-maker Eva van Pelt’s work is set apart by her search for a different kind of contact with her audiences. In HIER, she searches for the purest form of this contact by spending a whole year playing concerts for just one person. What happens when performer and audience face each other as individuals, a whole song long?

Every day, hundreds of people cross our path. How can we feel so alone in a world that is so interconnected? Through dance and performance, performance collective KNOT Kollektiv go in search of the most fundamental form of connection: laughter. Laughing is a kind of internal jogging, and can spark great expectations.

We crave, push one another away and then grab hold again. Do we lose ourselves in the other or stay on our own island? What does the gaze or touch of another do to you? Eighteen young people draw on their own experiences for this physical, musical production on intimacy and awkwardness.

Authoritarian leaders, algorithms and globalisation. Democracies are under pressure from all sides. Something has to change if we want a fairer distribution of power. But what exactly – and how? An interactive performance that takes us along on an exploration of history, the present and the future of democracy.

Storytelling is perhaps the most elementary form of theatre. During Oerol, Amsterdam storytelling stage Mezrab takes us into a new story every day, accompanied by live music. During the first weekend of Oerol the stories are in Dutch, and from Thursday 20 June they will be told in English.

An exhilarating concert that builds up to an exuberant, rebellious, festive cocktail of bodies, voices and instruments. Music as an irresistible invitation to move and shake all your troubles away. Shake Shake Shake!

Do you ever feel nostalgic for your adolescence, still on the way to becoming someone? Never fear – ten young people are making an exception for you: you can come to their party, just this once. Back to that feeling of eternity, of never-ending force and stunning naivety.

Under the name Golden Arches, traumahelikopter frontman Mark Lada presents his first Dutch-language solo work. Together with members of Afterpartees, Mozes and the Firstborn and PAUW, among others, Lada has taken a new path: English-language garage rock makes way for melancholy pop songs in Dutch; upbeat, with a sombre undertone here and there.

There have been rites in all parts of the world and all eras. But what rites lurk behind our everyday lives? Wetten met Koppen delve into the magical world of these hidden rites. What are we trying to celebrate, comprehend, let go, or find? As in the modern age we are always pushed for time, they came up with the ‘powernap to the higher self’.

At sea level, it is 15,419 feet – approximately 4.7 km – to the curvature of the earth. This musical, mechanical production invites us to (re)discover the sensation of peering at the horizon. Is something coming closer? Or moving further away? Can you believe your eyes – or your ears?

In Mezelfie, you can switch your perspective with that of a camera. Put on a VR headset and get a bird’s eye view of yourself walking along the streets and across the beach; learn to control your body in a different way. An interactive performance by artist duo Mardulier & Deprez that plays with our self-image in a realistic virtual space.

Typecasting, stereotypes, tokenism and discrimination: both in everyday life and at work, young performers experience the roles society allocates to them in a highly personal way. How does this affect their careers? A production on prejudice, racism, sexism and white privilege. And on a love broken by these.

Püwawau is a Maori word that means “spirit voices heard in running water”. Flemish-Dutch singer Chantal Acda uses her voice as a reflective space. In this electro-acoustic musical theatre performance, she investigates the universal factors that connect or influence voices, such as heritage, language and tearjerkers.

Babs Gons en haar muzikale mede-host Mirte Hartland nodigen dagelijks weer een bonte stoet van acteurs, schrijvers, columnisten, spoken word-artiesten, singer-songwriters en rappers uit om het festival en het eiland op poëtische en vooral zeer ontspannen manier te bespreken, te bedichten en te bezingen.

A multi-disciplinary diptych that confronts us with the absurd fragility of life. During a surrealistic audio tour, we are simultaneously observer and actor, and our surroundings become an instant film set. The second part of the show is a disarming, filmic and factual or fictional portrait of eight ambitious young adults.

Welcome to the future. Technostalgia takes us on an archaeological voyage of discovery through the deserted landscape of Mars – the Pompeii of the future. A servant left behind looks back with us at man’s vain attempts to design a new world here. (English version is available on request at the location).

Polyrhythmic Venezuelan grooves mixed with ’60s surf, rock, samba and guaguancó. Conjunto Papa Upa clearly create a very unique sound: a kind of raw Latin surf-garage. Venezuela-born frontman Alex Figueira digs deep into the musical roots of his motherland, and with his band transplants these to pastures new.

It’s catchy, it’s playful: it’s Figgie. This indie band from Utrecht’s lyrics are in Dutch, smart and to the point. They might not have released their first album yet, but every song sounds like the band – with a sound reminiscent of Unknown Mortal Orchestra, DIIV and Eefje de Visser – have been rocking the world for years.

A multi-disciplinary diptych that confronts us with the absurd fragility of life. During a surrealistic audio tour, we are simultaneously observer and actor, and our surroundings become an instant film set. The second part of the show is a disarming, filmic and factual or fictional portrait of eight ambitious young adults.

Charlie just can’t be normal. Not according to the standards imposed by our society. He has a different kind of ‘normal’. Together with musical theatre collective Club Gewalt, Romana Vrede has created a living artwork about and with Charlie Stevens, her son and only child.

Welcome to the future. Technostalgia takes us on an archaeological voyage of discovery through the deserted landscape of Mars – the Pompeii of the future. A servant left behind looks back with us at man’s vain attempts to design a new world here. (English version is available on request at the location).

Do you ever feel nostalgic for your adolescence, still on the way to becoming someone? Never fear – ten young people are making an exception for you: you can come to their party, just this once. Back to that feeling of eternity, of never-ending force and stunning naivety.

How can we weather the storm that is life? What does it mean to be a ‘good captain’? We, the drowned is raw, poetic, passionate musical theatre about the courage and resilience of people resisting.

Viva música mestiza, the sound of Barcelona! Latin rhythms, flamenco feel, the distinctive ‘rumba catalana’, rock and reggae/ska combine to shape the sound of this Spanish crossover style. The Barcelonans of La Sra. Tomasa are leading the charge of ‘electro-mestizo’: a young, modern wave that mixes infectious salsa and timba with danceable drum ‘n’ bass and dubstep.