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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.

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

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

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?

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.

Soft, sharp and intense poetry slam

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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 - 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 - 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.

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?

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.

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.

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?

Breathless listening to enchanting sounds

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 mix of rap, electronic and experimental pop music by a The Hague-based band with a fairytale origin story.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.-

A tasting where we put the island to the test.

Location premiere - What does it mean to be white-passing? Anne-Far performs the songs from her album Reaspora and shares the stories behind them.

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.

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.

Otim Alpha got his musical start as a wedding ceremony leader in his native Gulu City, Uganda. He preserves his culture by remaking traditional Acholi folk songs intro fast-paced electronic dance music.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Dutch premiere - The music of Haitian voodoo rituals, played on the beach by a choir of Northern Dutch percussionists.

Location premiere - What does it mean to be white-passing? Anne-Far performs the songs from her album Reaspora and shares the stories behind them.

This fourteen-piece festival band makes unpolished, upbeat dance music. Étoiles Électriques mixes Arabic, Kurdish and Persian music with funky pop to create a new sound.

Language plays a central role on ZEA's Frisian album, titled Wist noch dat d’r neat wie. ZEA plays Oerol alongside various artists.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

Hot sets and organized chaos.

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

Language plays a central role on ZEA's Frisian album, titled Wist noch dat d’r neat wie. ZEA plays Oerol alongside various artists.

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

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

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.

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?