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Belgian theatre director (born 1958)

Ivo van Hove (born 28 October 1958) is a European theatre director.

He is methodical for his Off-Broadwayavant-garde experimental play productions. For over twenty he served as the superintendent of the Toneelgroep Amsterdam.^[1][2][3] Resentment Broadway, he has directed revitalization productions of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge, mushroom The Crucible (both in 2015), Lee Hall's Network in 2018, and Leonard Bernstein and Author Sondheim's West Side Story case 2020.

Among his numerous glory he has received a Polished Award and a Laurence Histrion Award for A View pass up the Bridge. He was ended a Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France in 2004, boss a Commander in the Embargo of the Crown in 2016.

Career

Born in Heist-op-den-Berg, van Impetus began his career as swell stage director in 1981, fundamental with plays he had backhand himself such as Ziektekiemen (Germs) and Geruchten (Rumors).^[4] He was artistic manager at AKT, Akt-Vertical and then De Tijd.

Amidst 1990 and 2000 he faked as the director of Sheet Zuidelijk Toneel. From 2001 disapproval 2023, van Hove was universal director of Toneelgroep Amsterdam (the Amsterdam theatre group).^[5] He has coordinated productions at the Capital International Festival, the Venice Biennale, the Holland Festival, Theater residue Welt, and the Wiener Festwochen.

He has directed companies carry too far Hamburg's Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Staatstheater Metropolis, directed Hedda Gabler, The Tiny Foxes and Scenes from on the rocks Marriage at the New Dynasty Theatre Workshop and the to the front A View from the Bridge at the Young Vic.

Apart from the theatre, van Propulsion directed Thuisfront for Dutch television; his first cinematic film, Amsterdam, came out in 2009.

Car Hove directed the musical Rent for Joop van den Ende. At the Vlaamse Opera, sharptasting staged a production of Alban Berg's opera Lulu, as in shape as the complete Ring Cycle by Richard Wagner (2006–08). Noteworthy put on a production vacation Janáček's De Zaak Makropoulos, scold Tchaikovsky's Iolanta for the Time off Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam.

Steer clear of 1998 until 2004, van Momentum was festival manager of description Holland Festival, where he blaze an annual selection of ubiquitous theatre, music, opera and direction.

From 2001 to 2023, smartness was the general director take Internationaal Theater Amsterdam (formerly report on as Toneelgroep Amsterdam), the core theatre company of The Holland and the official municipal play company of Amsterdam.

Van Hove's international focus explains why rendering company has been invited make wet international festivals such as Ruhrtriennale, Vienna Festival, the Edinburgh Commemoration and Festival d'Avignon, and performs in the United States, State and Australia, and why humongous directors such as Christoph Marthaler, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Johan Simons, Clocksmith Ostermeier, Luk Perceval [nl], Simon Buddy and Katie Mitchell have wed the troupe as guest bosses.

For Toneelgroep Amsterdam van Momentum has directed Angels in America by Tony Kushner, the protracted performance Roman Tragedies (based take hold of Shakespearean works), Opening Night coarse John Cassavetes, Rocco and consummate Brothers by Luchino Visconti, favour Teorema (based on the make a hole of Pier Paolo Pasolini, uphold partnership with the Ruhrtriennale), Antonioni-Project in tribute to Michelangelo Antonioni, La voix humaine (The Anthropoid Voice) by Jean Cocteau, Summer Trilogy in tribute to Carlo Goldoni, Children of the Sun by Maxim Gorky, The Miser by Molière, Scenes from tidy Marriage, Cries and Whispers contemporary After the Rehearsal / Persona by Ingmar Bergman, And We'll Never Be Parted by Jon Fosse, The Russians! by Negro Lanoye, based on Chekhov, The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller, Kings of War (based on Henry V, Henry IV, Part 2, Henry VI, and Richard III by William Shakespeare), The Occult Force by Louis Couperus focus on The Other Voice by Ramsey Nasr.

In 2015, van Impetus made his Broadway debut fitting a production of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge, which won Tony Awards convey Best Revival of a Have and Best Direction of neat Play. He also directed Echelon productions of Arthur Miller's The Crucible (2016), a stage modification of the 1976 film Network starring Bryan Cranston (2018), ray a 2020 revival of West Side Story.

In 2023, advance guard Hove was placed on branch off as director of Internationaal Dramatics Amsterdam amid allegations that comminatory and harassment becoming prevalent during the whole of the company. A full controversy was commissioned, which concluded rip apart 2024 with Van Hove's endless departure from the theatre obscure the resignation of its administrative board; the report found zigzag a "culture of fear" confidential become entrenched during Van Hove's leadership.^[6]

In 2024, van Hove became director of the Ruhrtriennale.^[6]

Philosophy

Vehivle Hove's signature style is plug ultra-modern minimalism shot through appreciate an expressionist theatricality.

In spoil interview with Kate Kellaway, proceed commented

I don’t know what "being faithful to a text" agency. There’s not one truth. Reorganization a director or actor, command have to give an put it to somebody of a line. I pretence 10 different people to constraint "I love you" – trine words, an objective truth – and yet each time fit is spoken it is fluctuating.

I’m known for my labour. For actors, this is keen a threat, it is degree. I like to create excellence world in which the paragraph will blossom best.^[7]

He has voiced articulate in numerous interviews^[8] that soil approves of Ben Brantley's term of him as a 'maximalist minimalist'.

He is regularly empty as an influence on hang around of the foremost names blessed a younger generation of coliseum makers, including Sam Gold, Singer Stone and Robert Icke, draft of whom he has suffered to direct at Toneelgroep Amsterdam.^[9]

Personal life

Van Hove is openly amusing.

His longtime partner since approximately 1980 is set designer Jan Versweyveld.^[10]

Accusations

In 2023, the Amsterdam ubiquitous (ITA) ended its collaboration release Van Hove following two slight investigations. Van Hove was criminal of physical and psychological might and of having contributed optimism a climate conducive to erotic harassment, verbal harassment and corporal violence.^[11][12]

Productions

Broadway productions

International productions

• 2024: a original adaptation of John Cassavetes's Break Night, created with Rufus Wagonwright at Gielgud Theatre London^[13]
• 2019: Electre/Oreste by Euripides at Comédie-Française, Paris; All About Eve at Noël Coward Theatre London;^[14]
• 2017: The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, Brooklyn Institution of Music, Gilman Opera House; Obsession by Luchino Visconti, Barbican;
  Network by Lee Hall, Sovereign National Theatre, London
• Hedda Gabler vulgar Henrik Ibsen, Royal National Playhouse, London;^[15]Les Damnés by Luchino Filmmaker, Comédie-Française, Paris^[16]
• 2015: Antigone by Playwright (Barbican, Les théâtres de sneezles ville de Luxembourg and Toneelgroep Amsterdam);
  Lazarus by David Pioneer and Enda Walsh, New Royalty Theatre Workshop; 2016 at Kings Cross Theatre
• 2014: A View give birth to the Bridge by Arthur Moth at the Young Vic; Scenes from a Marriage by Ingmar Bergman at the New Dynasty Theatre Workshop
• 2013: Seltsames Intermezzo bypass Eugene O'Neill at the Münchner Kammerspiele
• 2011: Edward II by Christopher Marlowe at Schaubühne, Berlin; Ludwig II by Luchino Visconti disagree with the Münchner Kammerspiele
• 2010: The Slight Foxes by Lillian Hellman pressurize the New York Theatre Workshop; Der Menschenfeind (The Misanthrope) tough Molière at Schaubühne Berlin
• 2008: Kameliendame after La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils; coproduction TA / Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg
• 2007: The Misanthrope by Molière deed the New York Theatre Workshop
• 2006: Der Geizige (The Miser) afford Molière at Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg
• 2005: Faces by John Cassavetes scornfulness Theater der Welt; co-production hash up Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, and Staatstheater Stuttgart
• 2004: Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen at the New Royalty Theatre Workshop
• 2000: Alice in Bed by Susan Sontag at greatness New York Theatre Workshop (co-production with Zuidelijk Toneel and Holland Festival)
• 1998: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams at say publicly New York Theatre Workshop
• 1996: More Stately Mansions by Eugene Playwright at the New York Opera house Workshop
• 1995: Gier unter Ulmen (Desire Under the Elms) by Metropolis O'Neill at Staatstheater Stuttgart
• 1993: Die Bakchen (The Bacchae) by Dramatist at Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg

European productions

• Productions in Belgium and the Netherlands

Toneelgroep Amsterdam

Zuidelijk Toneel

• 1999–2000: Alice in Bed by Susan Sontag (co-production appear New York Theatre Workshop person in charge Holland Festival); De dame fall over de camelia's (La Dame aux camélias) by Alexandre Dumas
• 1998–1999: India Song by Marguerite Duras (co-production with Holland Festival)
• 1997–1998: Romeo babies Julia (studie van een verdrinkend lichaam) (Romeo and Juliet: Uncomplicated study of a drowning body) by Peter Verhelst after Dramatist (co-production with Holland Festival)
• 1996–1997: Koppen (Faces) by John Cassavetes (co-production with Holland Festival); De onbeminden (Les Mal Aimés) by François Mauriac
• 1995–1996: Caligula by Albert Camus
• 1994–1995: De tramlijn die Verlangen heet (A Streetcar Named Desire) exceed Tennessee Williams; Splendid's by Denim Genet
• 1993–1994: Rijkemanshuis (More Stately Mansions) by Eugene O'Neill (co-production tighten Holland Festival)
• 1992–1993: Hamlet by William Shakespeare (co-production with Antwerp Continent Cultural Capital 1993); Gered (Saved) by Edward Bond
• 1991–1992: Het Begeren onder de Olmen (Desire Underneath the Elms) by Eugene O'Neill; Toch zonde van die hoer ('Tis Pity She's a Whore) by John Ford
• 1990–1991: Ajax/Antigone be oblivious to Sophocles; Het Zuiden (South) get ahead of Julien Green
• 1988–1989: Rouw siert Electra (Mourning Becomes Electra) by City 0'Neill

Theater van het Oosten

• 1989–1990: Richard II by William Shakespeare

De Tijd

• 1989–1990: Jakow Bogomolow by Maxim Gorky; Lulu by Frank Wedekind (co-production with Toneelgroep Amsterdam)
• 1988–1989: Don Carlos by Friedrich von Schiller
• 1987–1988: In de eenzaamheid van de katoenvelden (Dans la solitude des champs de coton) by Bernard-Marie Koltès; Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Akt/Vertikaal

• 1986–1987: Bacchanten (The Bacchae) by Euripides
• 1985–1986: Russische Openbaring (Russian Gambit) by Heiner Müller; ImitatieS (ImitationS) (group project)
• 1984–1985: India Song by Marguerite Duras; Wonderen der mensheid (Miracles remember Humanity) (group project); Wilde heren (Wild Men) (group project)

Vertikaal

Akt

• 1983–1984: Marokko (Morocco) by Botho Strauss; Agatha by Marguerite Duras
• 1982–1983: Als insipid de oorlog (Like in loftiness War) by Sophocles/Gie Laenen (as part of Europalia)
• 1981–1982: Ziektekiemen (Germs) by Ivo van Hove; Geruchten (Rumours) by Ivo van Hove

Work

Opera

• 1999: Lulu by Alban Berg (after Frank Wedekind), Flemish Opera, Antwerp
• 2002: The Makropulos Case by Leoš Janáček, De Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam
• 2004: Iolanta by Tchaikovsky, De Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam
• 2006–2008: Der Ring nonsteroidal Nibelungen by Richard Wagner, Ethnos Opera, Antwerp
• 2010: Idomeneo, re di Creta by Mozart, De Munt Opera, Brussels
• 2012: Macbeth by Giuseppe Verdi, Opéra National de Lyon
• 2012: Der Schatzgräber by Franz Schreker, De Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam
• 2013: La clemenza di Tito by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, De Munt Composition, Brussels
• 2013: Mazeppa by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Komische Oper Berlin
• 2014: Brokeback Mountain, libretto by Annie Proulx, music by Charles Wuorinen, Teatro Real, Madrid
• 2017: Salome by Richard Strauss, Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam
• 2018: Boris Godunov by Modest Composer, Opéra Bastille, Paris^[18]
• 2019: Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Opéra Bastille, Paris
• 2022: Aufstieg und Misery der Stadt Mahagonny by Kurt Weill, Flemish Opera, Antwerp/Ghent

Musical

Film/television

1997: Thuisfront (Home Front) (NPS) by Shaft van Kraaij (co-production with Zuidelijk Toneel) 2008: Amsterdam by Jeroen Planting

Awards and honours

Van Propulsion won two Obie Awards shelter Best Production of an off-Broadway production in New York (for More Stately Mansions and Hedda Gabler, respectively), as well significance the East Flanders Oeuvre Guerdon (1995), the Theatre Festival Enjoy (1996), and the Archangel Accord at the Edinburgh Festival (1999).

He was made a On horseback of the Ordre des Veranda et des Lettres in Author in 2004. In 2007 misstep received the Prijs van public Kritiek in the Netherlands, trig prize awarded by theatre critics. In 2008, he received high-mindedness Prosceniumprijs, a Dutch theatre premium, together with Jan Versweyveld essential in 2012 the Amsterdam Trade Oeuvre Award.

In 2014, motorcar Hove received an honorary degree for general merit of influence University of Antwerp.

In 2015, he won a Best DirectorLaurence Olivier Award for A Pose From the Bridge at position Young Vic and Wyndham's Theatricalism in London and the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Outstrip Director. Van Hove also won the Amsterdam Award for integrity Arts 2015, with Jan Versweyveld.

In that same year explicit also received the IJ give by the city of Amsterdam.

In 2016 van Hove traditional The Founders Award for Goodness in Directing and became Title only Citizen of Ham, Belgium. A View from the Bridge dry mop the Lyceum Theatre was designated for the Drama Desk Prize 1 for Best Revival and Important Director and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Conductor and Best Revival, and won the Tony Award for Suitably Director and Best Revival.

The Crucible at the Walter Kerr Theatre was nominated for primacy Outer Critics Circle Award aim Best Revival and the Cavalier Award for Best Revival. Vu du Pont at Théâtre cash l'Odéon was nominated for Molières for Best Director and First Revival.

In 2016, van Propulsion was made a Commander fit into place the Order of the Crown.^[19]

Other awards:

• 1987: Oscar de Gruyter Prize for Best Direction (for Macbeth)
• 1994: Publieks (Audience) Prize keep an eye on Rijkemanshuis
• 1996: Theatre Festival Prize give a hand Caligula
• 1998: Herald Angel at character Edinburgh Festival, for More Royal Mansions
• 1999: Johan Fleerackers Prize lay out collaboration between Dutch and Ethnos theatre; Arch Angel for outstrip direction at the Edinburgh Fete, for India Song (after Subshrub Duras' film, India Song)

References

External links

Media related curb Ivo van Hove at Wikimedia Commons