Thomas Ostermeier - Toneelgroep Amsterdam

After Grzegorz Jarzyna, this season Toneelgroep Amsterdam will add Thomas Ostermeier to its long list of renowned guest directors. As a young theatre-maker, this German director caused a furore at the Baracke am Deutschen Theater in Berlin. From his work in that period we presented David Harrower's 'Messer in Hennen' and by Mark Ravenhill's 'Shoppen und Ficken'. Since 2007 he has been artistic director of the Berliner Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, where he took the production of Ibsen's 'Ghosts' (1881) in his stride. Before this he had already staged three other plays by this Norwegian playwright: 'Nora', 'Hedda Gabler' and 'Baumeister Solness'. For Henrik Ibsen 'Ghosts' was his final attempt to settle scores with the middle-class morality of lies and hypocrisy. The founder of modern realism tells the story of a mother and son who are haunted by ghosts from the past. When Oswald returns from Paris after his father's death, his mother Hélène can no longer hide the fact of her failed marriage. This is an intimate family drama that touches the core of the nineteenth-century spirit. Thomas Ostermeier can be expected to make this a very topical story. Moreover, he has a reputation for creating radical, penetrating actor's theatre.