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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?

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?

Assembly of Trees places the forest in the centre of our thinking, experiences and decision-making. In workshops, we seek to find new relationships with the forest.

Walk together with forest ranger Arjen Pootjes.

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.

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 - 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.

Intimate poetry concert about loss, desire, crows and poets – both dead and alive.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

An enormous globe provides you with the opportunity to experience what astronauts feel when they look down at earth from space: an awe for the planet.

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 - 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.

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.-

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 - What makes you a rascal, versus a criminal? STRAF is a performance made with and about people sentenced to perform community service.

Premiere - The world is on fire. Let’s party and write history. Tomorrow might never come.

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.

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.

Het Plantarium looks at the world from the perspective of plants.

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

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 - 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.

Together with the audience, we will make one big human pyramid as metaphor for the ecosystem – in which we collaborate, build upon and depend on one another.

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.

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?

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 - 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.

Let yourself be whisked away into the dream world of singer and vibraphonist Sanne Sanne, laced with sparkling textures, asymmetrical patterns and seductive grooves.

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

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.

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.

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

Hopeful site-specific theatre about what it means to live in poverty in the Netherlands.

Premiere - What makes you a rascal, versus a criminal? STRAF is a performance made with and about people sentenced to perform community service.

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.

Location premiere - Six dancers become one body, propelled across a never-ending beach. A moving dance concert about the desire for something to hold on to, in an increasingly elusive world.

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.

Het Plantarium looks at the world from the perspective of plants.

Location premiere - A wandering knight in search of his sword, finds a man with a metal detector instead, who in turn is looking for redemption.

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

Suddenly everything comes to an abrupt halt and all certainties seem to be relative. BOT looks for a new direction and presents comfort and perspective.

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

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

Humankind in a state of denial. Comic-cosmic thriller about the lies we tell ourselves to stay sane.

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

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

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

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.

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 - Two boys who grew up in different worlds both find their roots in ancient Persian stories.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Rotterdam-based Nagasaki Swim brings together folk, country, ambient and field recordings, alongside dreamy melodies and melancholic sing-along choruses.

Premiere - The world is on fire. Let’s party and write history. Tomorrow might never come.

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?

Location premiere - A wandering knight in search of his sword, finds a man with a metal detector instead, who in turn is looking for redemption.

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.

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

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.

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

Roots reggae band from Rotterdam. Founded in 2016, when frontman Brantley MacDonald decided to elevate his music to a higher level.

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

Premiere - Two boys who grew up in different worlds both find their roots in ancient Persian stories.

Suddenly everything comes to an abrupt halt and all certainties seem to be relative. BOT looks for a new direction and presents comfort and perspective.

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?

Location premiere - Six dancers become one body, propelled across a never-ending beach. A moving dance concert about the desire for something to hold on to, in an increasingly elusive world.

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.

In this exciting, wordless performance, four circus artists speak one physical language. The individuals need each other more than ever in their quest for independence.

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.

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

Humankind in a state of denial. Comic-cosmic thriller about the lies we tell ourselves to stay sane.

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

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.

The gripping story of the irresistible rise, tragic fall and inevitable rebirth of disco – epitomised by disco icon and flamboyant LGBTQ activist Sylvester.

Hopeful site-specific theatre about what it means to live in poverty in the Netherlands.

A treat for all your senses

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.

Ritual performance about the connection between humans and plants in 2092, the year we rediscover that plants have a soul. And a story.

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

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

A solo performance by Willem de Bruin about his search for identity and growing up as a boy of colour in a remote Dutch village.

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.

Location premiere - Lust and love in all its shapes and sizes in 2022. Without taboos.

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?