Per day

Take a seat in a life-sized tray of fries and listen to people talk about their urge to consume and the happiness it brings them. When will we ever be satisfied?

Two powerful vocalists with disparate timbres. Maximum expression with minimal elements.

Premiere - What does it mean to say sorry for something that seems a very long time ago? A performance about our collective history of slavery, in which history and current events come together.

Premiere - Plastic in the sea and on the beach… Isn’t that rubbish? Pick it up and make it valuable! Together, we’ll give washed up plastic tall tales to thrive off.

How can we balance a tree? How can we balance on a tree? Or: How can we balance on a balancing tree? Experience a search for equilibrium.

Listen to stories and embark on a sea voyage in a traditional Marshallese outrigger canoe. What can we learn about a more sustainable relationship to our nature?

Premiere - Scroll through the IRL feed of images and audio on Oerol and immerse yourself in beautiful stories during OFFLINE INSTAGRAM. Maybe you’ll find yourself?

Chris Keulemans tells storis from his book Gastvrijheid (‘Hospitality’), with live music by Shishani. About the sea which turns into a monster, migrants ready for their journeys and travels without an arrival.

Where does the wisdom for a Judgement of Solomon come from? Be an indispensable part of the last rendition of this theatre project about asylum procedures in the Netherlands.

A large musical theatre performance that questions our refugee policy and good intentions, which invites you to participate in a scientific research project.

Location premiere - The unlikely friendship between the Syrian schoolgirl Laila and the older Jewish gentleman Isa Cohen leads to an exciting quest in this poetic, musical family performance.

For centuries, bells have warned us of impending disaster. But what danger is this bell alerting us to? Will we heed its warning?

By playing on the way we experience the world, we challenge the way we think and act. Experience this for yourself in this playground for the human gaze.

Premiere - The people of Terschelling boast and dream about it: the crucible. Come and see this unique object for yourself and discover the many stories the local islanders have on offer.

Premiere - Plastic in the sea and on the beach… Isn’t that rubbish? Pick it up and make it valuable! Together, we’ll give washed up plastic tall tales to thrive off.

Japanese art and culinary team explore the world of fermentation, using everything Terschelling’s nature and the Wadden Sea has to offer.

Premiere - How do you become a salt-loving person? This installation on the Kleiplak focuses on a salty future and forms the backdrop for daily, speculative training sessions.

Premiere - The horizon: an invisible line that connects us with the distance and simultaneously brings us back to ourselves. Get closer to this philosophical phenomenon.

SOUNDINGS will be a large-scale artwork displayed in the Groningen landscape, to be experienced from 2023. See the prototypes at Oerol, in the public workshop of Theun Mosk.

Witness a spatial installation which exposes the vulnerable side of architecture.

Location premiere - In the Audement of the Embassy of the North Sea, come and listen to the political voice of non-humans: the water, the sand, the fish and seagulls.

Premiere - Sixteen organ pipes provide real-time data about the heart rate and valve position of a single mussel from the Wadden Sea.

Between the Hoogwater presentations of Deep Meaning of Voyaging, the Marshallese outrigger canoe is waiting to be admired on the green beach.

In Framing the Circle, the viewer's gaze is framed. Everyone directs their own film of the dancers, blurring the line between the performer and the audience.

Premiere - Pianos stolen from Dutch Jews during the Second World War are transformed into storytellers as silent witnesses of their rightful owners.-

Premiere - Plastic in the sea and on the beach… Isn’t that rubbish? Pick it up and make it valuable! Together, we’ll give washed up plastic tall tales to thrive off.

Chris Keulemans tells storis from his book Gastvrijheid (‘Hospitality’), with live music by Shishani. About the sea which turns into a monster, migrants ready for their journeys and travels without an arrival.

Take a seat and listen to what the forest has to say.

Premiere - Discover Terschelling highlights that don’t make the postcards. These locations are hidden, may seem less immediately attractive, and show a different side of the island.

In Framing the Circle, the viewer's gaze is framed. Everyone directs their own film of the dancers, blurring the line between the performer and the audience.

A compelling hand, arm and limb duet that arises from a formal handshake. Where one limb begins and the other ends turn out to be a mystery.

Premiere - What does it mean to say sorry for something that seems a very long time ago? A performance about our collective history of slavery, in which history and current events come together.

A philosophical, absurdist and at times Dadaistic concert that takes on the subject of language, without spelling everything out literally.

How can we balance a tree? How can we balance on a tree? Or: How can we balance on a balancing tree? Experience a search for equilibrium.

A breathtaking beach opera about profit over morality and the end of an era in which we could be shamelessly satisfied to no end.

Dutch premiere - Interactive pop-up performance in which ten participants carrying benches, together with artist Dieter Missiaen, seek to connect with visitors in public space. Will you join us?

Premiere - The start of a new ritual for eternity, leading up to the longest day of the year.

Premiere - Plastic in the sea and on the beach… Isn’t that rubbish? Pick it up and make it valuable! Together, we’ll give washed up plastic tall tales to thrive off.

Location premiere - The unlikely friendship between the Syrian schoolgirl Laila and the older Jewish gentleman Isa Cohen leads to an exciting quest in this poetic, musical family performance.

Curious about which innovative food entrepreneurs will be next to make it big in your local supermarket? Join in with Test Teevee and taste the future of the Wadden Sea region.

Don Melody Club is a solo project by Amsterdam-based musician Donald “Donny” Madjid – also known from The Mauskovic Dance Band.

The earth is fried to a crisp. Luckily, the universe is now your oyster. An old school Western in outer space about the significance of land.

A large musical theatre performance that questions our refugee policy and good intentions, which invites you to participate in a scientific research project.

In Framing the Circle, the viewer's gaze is framed. Everyone directs their own film of the dancers, blurring the line between the performer and the audience.

By playing on the way we experience the world, we challenge the way we think and act. Experience this for yourself in this playground for the human gaze.

An artist and a scientist, who work on the same subject within the context of their respective disciplines, delve into conversation.

Premiere - Plastic in the sea and on the beach… Isn’t that rubbish? Pick it up and make it valuable! Together, we’ll give washed up plastic tall tales to thrive off.

Side-specific group performance of the first year students of Academy of Circus and Performance Art (ACAPA).

Premiere - The start of a new ritual for eternity, leading up to the longest day of the year.

In Framing the Circle, the viewer's gaze is framed. Everyone directs their own film of the dancers, blurring the line between the performer and the audience.

A performance that you can walk through. Gradually, you discover what's going on and your role in this drama.

Schrijvers maken verhalen geïnspireerd door een portretfoto van een jonge Terschellinger. Een ode aan de verbeelding. 

A solo by Guy Mendes, a storyteller and multi-instrumentalist with hip hop roots. A dance, crisscrossing through his father’s life.

A tasting where we put the island to the test.

Dutch premiere - A performative installation that mirrors and questions our habits as individuals in public. A playful experiment between isolation and communication.

Premiere - Plastic in the sea and on the beach… Isn’t that rubbish? Pick it up and make it valuable! Together, we’ll give washed up plastic tall tales to thrive off.

Premiere - Storyteller Raphael strips the story of Joseph from the Old Testament from its religious connotations and adds his personal stories about growing up in the Galilei desert.

Join the conversation in the back rooms of the Audement and shape a new ecological policy.

Premiere - De voorstelling met misschien wel de langste opkomst ooit (‘The performance with what might be the longest entrance ever’) attempts to be a performance with what might be the longest entrance ever.

Premiere - Pianos stolen from Dutch Jews during the Second World War are transformed into storytellers as silent witnesses of their rightful owners.-

Premiere - Are we gasping for breath or are we training the elasticity of our lungs? Let De Onkuidernier prepare you for a salty future.

A performance that you can walk through. Gradually, you discover what's going on and your role in this drama.

In Framing the Circle, the viewer's gaze is framed. Everyone directs their own film of the dancers, blurring the line between the performer and the audience.

A philosophical, absurdist and at times Dadaistic concert that takes on the subject of language, without spelling everything out literally.

Walking Dutch cultural heritage, DJ and writer

Premiere - The start of a new ritual for eternity, leading up to the longest day of the year.

Premiere - Plastic in the sea and on the beach… Isn’t that rubbish? Pick it up and make it valuable! Together, we’ll give washed up plastic tall tales to thrive off.

Two cheerful gentlemen demonstrate their knowledge of the world. The question is: How much do they – and we – still understand of the times we find ourselves in?

How can we balance a tree? How can we balance on a tree? Or: How can we balance on a balancing tree? Experience a search for equilibrium.

At this stunning location, discover the wildly tasty future of food: back to nature and eating with the seasons.

Premiere - Radical adaptation of the 17th-century novella Oroonoko in which Surinamese kawina, Western court music from the time and modern electronic beats merge effortlessly.

Dutch premiere - A performative installation that mirrors and questions our habits as individuals in public. A playful experiment between isolation and communication.

Live TV programme by AVROTROS. Opium op Oerol will report live on the festival from Monday to Friday.

Walking Dutch cultural heritage, DJ and writer

Intimate introduction to new sounds

Premiere - Storyteller Raphael strips the story of Joseph from the Old Testament from its religious connotations and adds his personal stories about growing up in the Galilei desert.

Premiere - Waking up in a dream is like being offered a new perspective. One in which you can move, decide, observe and reflect.

Two cheerful gentlemen demonstrate their knowledge of the world. The question is: How much do they – and we – still understand of the times we find ourselves in?

A solo by Guy Mendes, a storyteller and multi-instrumentalist with hip hop roots. A dance, crisscrossing through his father’s life.

The earth is fried to a crisp. Luckily, the universe is now your oyster. An old school Western in outer space about the significance of land.

Premiere - Talent development programme for site-specific theatre. This year, with performance and video artist Finn Borath, dancer, choreographer and DJ Lucinda Wessels, and actor and theatre maker Elias De Bruyne.

An energetic and precise dissection of masculine strength and the cultural perception thereof.

Experience a perfect summer’s evening on the ice-skating rink. A tribute to the many Frisian ice-skating rinks which – despite the warmer winters – are still in use today.

A breathtaking beach opera about profit over morality and the end of an era in which we could be shamelessly satisfied to no end.

Premiere - Radical adaptation of the 17th-century novella Oroonoko in which Surinamese kawina, Western court music from the time and modern electronic beats merge effortlessly.

A performance that you can walk through. Gradually, you discover what's going on and your role in this drama.

Premiere - Experimental theatre concert which investigates and eradicates every possible pigeonhole. Is there such a thing as one true version of yourself?

Premiere - The start of a new ritual for eternity, leading up to the longest day of the year.

Tarantino-esque love story that rewrites the Western world’s history of slavery. It's time for retaliation.

A performance that you can walk through. Gradually, you discover what's going on and your role in this drama.

Premiere - A visual performance that explores the fear of the unknown. By stretching reality using technology, horror and fantasy are given free rein.

Premiere - Experimental theatre concert which investigates and eradicates every possible pigeonhole. Is there such a thing as one true version of yourself?