In the spring of 2006 the four actors at Tg Stan (Jolente De Keersmaeker, Sara De Roo, Damiaan De Schrijver and Frank Vercruyssen) plan to make a new performance together without the participation of any outsiders; they have not done this since 1997. Itis called of / niet and it is based on texts by Harold Pinter and Alan Ayckbourn. Expect to a play and a performance with strong acting and a highly individual interpretation.

The director Josse De Pauw, screenwriter Marc Didden and musician Roland have set up a project for Het Toneelhuis based on the beat poets: Burroughs, Kerouac, Ginsberg and other distinguished kindred spirits. It is the portrait of an era and a wild generation. The performance is a cross between a reading and a concert. In addition to actors there are guest appearances by writers and musicians every evening.

During the 2004 Comedy Festival, Tristero presented the unique and critical soap, Abigail’s Party, by Mike Leigh. Tristero’s new performance, Play with repeats, is the work of yet another Briton, Martin Crimp. Crimp describes our turbulent world with humour and ruthless precision. In Play with repeats Tony looks back on his life on the eve of his fortieth birthday. Tristero takes you on a journey through time and various locations in the Kaaitheater Studios. The audience finds itself in a maze, a joke and a thriller.

Starnberg. Sisi, When a Fairytale Comes True is a production about Sisi, or Elisabeth, the Empress of Austria, Ludwig II, the mad king of Bavaria, and Romy Schneider. As always Rudi Meulemans will base the text on extensive documentation. It is the first performance in a series that Rudi Meulemans and De Parade will dedicate to the Habsburgers.

Hydrogen can produce clean energy. By 2020 plenty of cars will run on hydrogen. A revolution 'more significant than the invention of the computer and the internal combustion engine'. How will we handle it, or how will we be handled in this regard? KNOWH₂OW is a new energy piece, after the successful PIPELINES that Jan Ritsema and Bojana Cvejic produced in 2004 together with Dirk Roofthooft and Mette Ingvartsen.

A man and a woman take turns to speak. The woman tells the story of a relationship that has ended, and changes the story with each telling. The man tells a large number of different stories based on other people's lives; each story is a snapshot of a sorrow great or small. Exquisite Pain by the English group Forced Entertainment is an intimate performance based on the wonderful reading and picture book Douleur exquise by the French artist Sophie Calle.

Dood Paard will perform all its Shakespeare adaptations in one series. The group will perform a revival of the three Roman tragedies on the violence of politics: Titus (adapted from Titus Andronicus), J.C. (adapted from Julius Caesar) and Coriolanus. Zomernachtliefde is a new comedy (based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream) about the violence of love, performed in collaboration with Tg Monk. The performances are ridiculous and moving, rhetorical and ordinary, and theatrical and cinematic all at the same time.

Dood Paard will perform all its Shakespeare adaptations in one series. The group will perform a revival of the three Roman tragedies on the violence of politics: Titus (adapted from Titus Andronicus), J.C. (adapted from Julius Caesar) and Coriolanus. Zomernachtliefde is a new comedy (based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream) about the violence of love, performed in collaboration with Tg Monk. The performances are ridiculous and moving, rhetorical and ordinary, and theatrical and cinematic all at the same time.

Together with the literary magazine DWB, also known as Dietsche Warande & Belfort, the Kaaitheater has over the last few years issued a series of publications on various subjects such as the ageing artist and the German writer W.G. Sebald. DWB has been in existence for 150 years and is therefore, with the exception of De Gids, the oldest literary magazine in the Dutch language region. This fact will be celebrated with a literary night with different the writers.

Why do people want children? The answer to this question is examined in short scenes and dialogues in Families Are Formed Through Copulation / La Famille se crée en copulant by PME. This Canadian group uses a mixture of disciplines in its performances and has a predilection for the awkwardness and complexity of communication. They see this ‘maladjustedness’ as one of the basic features of theatre as a medium. The work is based on group improvisation and is directed by the English-speaking Canadian Jacob Wren.

Grace Ellen Barkey is an actress, dancer, choreographer and director and works for Needcompany on a permanent basis. Since 1992 she has managed to build up a successful international career for herself with her own work. In her new production, Chunking, she constructs scenes from conscious and unconscious memories. Chunking also includes a choreography set to Sonic Youth’s song Kill Yr Idols.