Season 2024-2025

What we call the beginning is often the end / And to make an end is to make a beginning. / The end is where we start from. 

T.S. Eliot - The Four Quartets

In our new shows you will see time pass by in all its forms: cyclical time, transience, adolescence, destructive wartime, nostalgia for a time gone by, but also the hopeful longing for a new time.

“The end is where we start from.” That also applies to the end of next season. For then we will be closing our beloved Bourla for much-needed renovations. But not without first living it up in style, during the Bye Bye Bourla festival!

Everyone is welcome!

Premiere

Moeder Courage Theatre 12 March 2025 until 15 March 2025

Moeder Courage

KVS / Toneelhuis / Lisaboa Houbrechts

How do you live and survive in a war as a child? As a young woman? As a mother? Lisaboa Houbrechts presents Brecht’s antiwar play as a moving and confrontational fable about the vulnerability and resistance of one of the most iconic female characters in world repertoire, set in a musical and visual universe.

Mantike Theatre 23 April 2025 until 30 April 2025

Mantike

Toneelhuis / Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe

Everything seems to be going to pot. And yet – there’s a shining light on the horizon. A sign of hope. Now the whole shebang can be blown away. Marjan De Schutter storms on stage like a whirlwind in various guises. There is only one last link between dying bees and our fate. Mantike Bloom Boom. Prophecies. Explosions. Vital splatters. Just in time, the end is avoided.

Reprises

The Sheep Song Theatre 26 March 2025 until 30 March 2025

The Sheep Song

Toneelhuis / FC Bergman

A miniature about the eternal struggle with – and endless longing for – change.

UNLOCK THE CITY!

Honderd Theatre 3 April 2025 until 5 April 2025

Honderd

Toneelhuis / Martha!tentatief / theater arsenaal / Ruud Gielens & Bart Van Nuffelen

Honderd is an evocative musical performance by Slongs (Charissa Parassiadis) and Scale (Kris Strybos). Ruud Gielens is responsible for the direction. Bart Van Nuffelen wrote the script, based on 100 interviews recorded by Pauline Augustyn. A report from the fringes of the city.

Guest

How goes the world - Histoire(s) du Théâtre V Theatre 18 March 2025 until 19 March 2025

How goes the world - Histoire(s) du Théâtre V

NTGent / Tim Etchells

​After forty years of making theatre, the British artist and author Tim Etchells, founder of Forced Entertainment, reflects on the history of (his) theatre at the invitation of NTGent.

Concert

Isabelle Lewis Music 17 May 2025

Isabelle Lewis

Valgeir Sigurðsson / Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe / Elisabeth Klinck

The promising alliance brings a one of a kind combination of electronic and contemporary classical music: a nostalgic shapeshifter with three faces, each personifying a unique sound world. A charismatic performance with poetic and mysterious lyrics, operatic influences and sophisticated electronics.

Extra

Guided tour Guided tour 15 March 2025 until 26 April 2025

Guided tour

Toneelhuis offers you a peek behind the scenes with pleasure. Take a guided tour of the Bourla and find out everything about the building’s history and its historic theatrical constructions.