Guided by headphones and holding a flashlight to illuminate the darkness of a big, empty and dormant theatre, you're cast as an 'extra' in what appears to be a dream-like rehearsal of powerlessness.

This is a woman who, on payment, you briefly possess, but rarely to love her. She wants to save her daughter from the solitude into which her own fate has plunged her. She sees the hope of a new life disintegrate at the start of the Arab Spring.

Pierre Audi locates Bach's St. John Passion in an austere set inspired by Wim Delvoye's images. The passion questions the opposing claims on the truth found in religions and the conflicts it causes. Iconoclast Delvoye looks right through these truths with X-ray eyes, reducing them to a meagre pile of mouse bones.

A performance about the clash between Mozart’s dynamic talent and the craftsmanship of the hardworking Salieri. As well as a duel between two theatre-makers. Vincent Rietveld of De Warme Winkel and Marien Jongewaard, cofounder and inspirer of Nieuw West, take up the gauntlet.

Gisèle Vienne stages a reconstruction of the largest annual gathering of ventriloquists in Kentucky. A polyphony of 30 voices — both the dummies and their ventriloquists — draws you into a tangle of complex psychologies.

Harold Pinters’ Betrayal (1978) ingeneously portrays a love triangle on stage. Passion and mediocrity, lies and desires, deception and self-deception wage battle with one another. The story unfolds in reverse chronological order, so you know ‘how it ends’. Lawrence Malstaf provides the impressive scenography with nine rotating walls through which you move freely on stage.

The Roman emperor Caligula is driven by the death of his sister and mistress to a tyrannical, arbitrary abuse of power. Guy Cassiers directs the play by Albert Camus. A search for the meaning of existence.

Geboeid/Prometheus is a new play by Jan Decorte, based on the tragedy Aeschylus wrote in the 5th century BC. It’s an amazing work, and a powerful and menacing portrait of stubbornness.

Are you white, male and heterosexual? Then you are privileged, without realising it! Lee’s excellent all-American cast goes all out in this ‘naturalistic’ and contrary spoken theatre. This witty play about (sexual) identity and neoliberal values featured high on the New York theatre critics’ pick of the year lists.

The dreamy nature of Alice in Wonderland, the classic book that is celebrating its 150^th anniversary in 2015, inspired Abattoir Fermé to create this adaptation for adults. The company translates Lewis Carroll’s absurd dream-like logic into a dark tale with powerful visual tableaux.