The readiness is all | Hamlet

Profile 
Toneelgroep Oostpool [‘East Pole’] from Arnhem is one of the eight major theatre companies in the Netherlands and thus belongs tot the so-called ‘basic infrastructure’ of Dutch theatre. The company plays in large proscenium arch theatres, studio-type theatres and on location and creates four to six new productions every year.

Toneelgroep Oostpool has its own house, Huis Oostpool, a 220 seat studio theatre in Arnhem. The company has two resident directors, Marcus Azzini and Erik Whien, who work under the artistic director, Rob Klinkenberg. The business director is Ruud van Meijel. There’s a fixed company of young actors, which is complemented when necessary with regular guest-actors. Toneelgroep Oostpool works from a national and even international point of view, but sees Arnhem and the east of the Netherlands as its home base. We regularly work together with the ArtEZ Drama Academy and Generale Oost, a breeding ground for young theatre artists. We also run an extensive educational programme.

Toneelgroep Oostpool is a lively and talented company of young theatre artists who work as personally as possible, but who keep the bigger picture in mind, fully conscious of the world we live in. The company is powered by acting.

Toneelgroep Oostpool treasures its audience, and for each performance, it takes the special, communal relationship between spectator and actor as a starting point. The quality of their joint experience is paramount.

Productions 
(by the present company)

2009

Wat het lichaam niet vergeet | company, Azzini 
Zomergasten | Gorki, Whien 
Bergen | De Graaf, Whien 
Midzomernachtsdroom | Shakespeare, Azzini (with ArtEZ Drama Academy) 
Los | company, Azzini 
Wachten op Godot | Beckett, Whien 
Orlando | Woolf/Vos, Azzini

2010

Er moet licht zijn| Van Wieringen, Azzini 
Van de brug af gezien | Miller, Whien 
De verschrikkelijke moeder | Van Warmerdam, Whien (with ArtEZ Drama Academy) 
Ksztalt | Gombrowicz, company 
Thuis ben je nooit alleen | Van den Bos, Van Wieringen, Osterop, Azzini 
Hamlet | Shakespeare, Azzini