Season 2025-2026

What a plot twist. Bye Bye Bourla unexpectedly became Stand Bye Bourla; the restoration and renovation works on the Bourla will be postponed for a year. We are therefore delighted to welcome you to our beloved theatre in season 2025-2026 as yet, with a host of performances and artists. New work and revivals by our regular artists, by guest artists, by Antwerp colleagues and the other city theatres. Lectures and debates, Aan Tafel discussions, workshops, introductions, guided tours, music, parties, an exhibition on the rich history of the Bourla and a brand new festival.

We keep the fire burning.

Everyone welcome!

‘Theatre is needed today more than ever. Because it brings people together. Because it offers different perspectives. Because it makes room for empathy, imagination, discussion ánd community.’ - the Toneelhuis Artists

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Premieres

Chapters of Celebration Theatre Archive

Chapters of Celebration

Toneelhuis / Muziektheater Transparant / Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe / Wouter Deltour

An energetic dance performance propelled by baroque ensemble B’Rock, with La Folia as musical leitmotif. Six choreographers and six dancers construct a museum of revelry, a celebration of the partying body throughout the ages.

Guernica Guernica Theatre Archive

Guernica Guernica

Toneelhuis / FC Bergman

FC Bergman creates a wordless, large-scale and hybrid visual show about the impossibility of depicting war and draws inspiration from, amongst other things, Picasso’s painting named Guernica.

Give up, Old Ghosts! Theatre 22 April 2026 until 4 November 2027

Give up, Old Ghosts!

Toneelhuis / Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe

A journey behind the curtains of memory, with Mozart’s unfinished Requiem as central point of reference. An encounter between performers from different generations and backgrounds. A memory palace with the atmosphere of a spiritual séance. 

Burning Burning Festival

The Truthful Theatre Archive

The Truthful

CAMPO / Lieselot Siddiki

In this eclectic musical theatre monster, Lieselot Siddiki uses dangerously realistic insights to depict the complex issues surrounding the concept of religion, small miracles and large-scale religious conflicts.  

Guest

COPYRIOT Theatre 13 January 2027

COPYRIOT

KVS / Krapp

Inspired by the films of Charlie Kaufman and Dostoevsky’s absurd short story The Double, Krapp conjures up a tragicomic mirror world full of strange duplicates and dubious doppelgängers.

Extra

Guided tour Guided tour 21 November 2026 until 12 June 2027

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.