Every day, Daan Doesborgh hosts the talk show De Dag met Daan Doesborgh. Hear all the ins and outs of the creative process behind Oerol productions and snag last-minute tickets for that one sold-out performance.
Because Daan is such a well-informed man, we asked him to share his tips from the Oerol 2025 program.
Poezieboys, Joost Oomen & Explore the North – GEESTEN
Everything Joost and the Poezieboys touch turns to gold. Together and individually, they’ve long been exploring—through funny, thought-provoking, and interactive performances—what poetry actually is, where it comes from, and what you can do with it. The newest chapter in this stage-based thesis is Geesten, in which they investigate the Big Bang of poetry. If you’re not intrigued by that, then we simply don’t understand each other.
Mahat Arab & Gerrit van Baalen – Een poëtisch zooitje
Two chaotic souls on stage—one makes music, the other poetry. You might attend out of curiosity, like a disaster tourist, but I’m afraid there’s a good chance you’ll end up genuinely moved. I’ve known Mahat for a while now, and a bit of chaos won’t stop him from speaking straight to your heart.
Nyk de Vries – Hoeveel woorden
Nyk is a Frisian living in Amsterdam, and he explores that divide in How Many Words. Well—“divide”… If anyone can bring together two completely different worlds with deadpan humor and surprising harmony, it’s Nyk de Vries: one of the most understated yet emotionally rich performers in the Dutch poetry scene.
Frino – Kuilkwark
A performance that promises to deliver the paving-slab philosophy of life—that has to be good. I myself grew up in North Limburg, not North Brabant, but the provincial gloom full of concrete tiles is pretty much the same. Frino’s pounding Brabohop is also a great opportunity to show audiences from above the rivers that those unintelligible Southerners are, in fact, capable of some fine wordplay—damn wetnecks.
