06
Nov
Three women. Three time periods. The same struggle. A stage adaptation of Michael Cunningham's classic novel The Hours, connecting the lives of three women searching for freedom.
Fri, 6 Nov 2026
19:30
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Sat, 7 Nov 2026
19:30
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Sun, 8 Nov 2026
15:00
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Wed, 11 Nov 2026
20:00
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Thu, 12 Nov 2026
20:00
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Fri, 13 Nov 2026
20:00
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Sat, 14 Nov 2026
20:00
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Sun, 15 Nov 2026
20:00
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Wed, 18 Nov 2026
20:00
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Thu, 19 Nov 2026
20:00
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Fri, 20 Nov 2026
20:00
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Sat, 21 Nov 2026
20:00
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Sun, 22 Nov 2026
15:00
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Amsterdam
The Hours
Three women. Three times. The same struggle.
Three women. Three moments in the twentieth century. One day that changes everything. In The Hours, director Eline Arbo connects the lives of three women who, each in their own time, struggle with the same question: how do you live a life that is truly yours?
On a morning in 1923, Virginia Woolf begins the book that will become her masterpiece: Mrs. Dalloway. Thirty years later, in a stifling American suburb, housewife Laura Brown reads that same book and feels the walls of her seemingly perfect life closing in. Another fifty years later, in New York, Clarissa Vaughan is organizing a party for her terminally ill friend Richard, while wondering if the life she has built is the one she wanted.
Three women, three eras, connected by literature and by the desire for freedom. They struggle with the roles assigned to them, as wife, as mother, as woman. Each seeks her own way out. This search has consequences, for themselves and for those around them.
Michael Cunningham's novel The Hours and the film adaptation with Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, and Meryl Streep have become modern classics. In her stage adaptation, Eline Arbo emphasizes what connects the three storylines: the emancipation that has and has not been achieved in a century, and the role patterns that are still deeply hidden in our culture. The personal is inextricably linked with the political, a common thread throughout all her work.
Eline Arbo on The Hours
“It is an incredibly beautiful story of three women, whose lives are inextricably linked. All three struggle with the roles assigned to them and search for their own form of freedom. By portraying women from completely different times, questions arise about the level of emancipation today and the role patterns that lie deeply hidden in our culture. At the same time, it is an intimate portrait of three people, whose desperate search for freedom has major consequences for their surroundings.”
Additional Information
- Duration: 110 minutes (no intermission)
- Language: Dutch
- Surtitles: English on Sat 7, Thu 12, Sat 14, Thu 19 & Sat 21 Nov
- Please note: The performance contains stroboscopic effects.
Credits
- From the novel by: Michael Cunningham
- Direction: Eline Arbo
- Translation: Servaas Goddijn
- Adaptation: Eline Arbo, Peter van Kraaij, Bart Van den Eynde
- Dramaturgy: Bart Van den Eynde
- Scenography: Pascal Leboucq
- Lighting Design: Varja Klosse
- Sound Design: Thijs van Vuure
- Costumes: Wojciech Dziedzic
- Private Producer: Jeroen van Ingen and Jaap Kooijman
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