What are today’s challenges? What does tomorrow’s world look like? Questions that Louis Couperus asked himself more than a hundred years ago. ‘De stille kracht’ is based on his memories of his childhood in Dutch East India. Couperus’ works, now all classics, are right up the director Ivo Van Hove’s street. So over the next few years he will be presenting us with no less than three works by this perceptive and sensitive observer of the human psyche.