Programme 2026

Through visual, physical comedy, Bambie highlights the absurd complexity of contemporary nature management.

Enchanting musical theatre that sprinkles love potion in your eyes and jolts you awake. About dreaming, being defiant, and daring to do something, or nothing at all.

This breathtaking aerial dance is an ode to equality and empowerment, capturing the hearts and imaginations of audiences worldwide.

Katrien van Beurden performs the one-woman show Harlekino: a true story you don’t have to believe. A story about survival and survivors. Featuring music by Remy van Kesteren.

The 100-year-old Magda marks her final hour, accompanied by the music of climate activist and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. What must be left behind as she enters her grave?

A puppet performance about a class struggle between a sparrow and a rat, as seen in historical pest control campaigns, reveals how humans and pests are intertwined.

A phenomenal blend of dance and partner acrobatics that captivates audiences of all ages around the world.

A top-tier music theater show in which stage animal Elfie Tromp kisses cabaret icon Adèle Bloemendaal back to life, joined by piano virtuoso Jan Groenteman.

BLAUWDRUK takes one last stand against the privileged position of Western humanity. A remixed trilogy by land, sea, and air.

The HalfJaarsConference 2026 by keunstner-yn-residinsje (artist-in-residence) Dolf Jansen, exclusively and multiple times at Oerol.

A musical comedy you wouldn't want living next door. And a social satire about a society desperately trying to prove itself right.

An interactive installation about the meat industry that prompts you to take a critical look at our relationship with nature, and specifically the animal kingdom.

Acclaimed musical theater performance featuring Meral Polat on art and motherhood, returning for a one-time-only show in a special festival format!

Geschiedenis van een ongeluk (History of an Accident) is about a life-altering phone call and a universal need for connection. An intimate, musical portrait of someone reaching out for help.

The singer, composer and performance artist masterfully blends Catholic hymns, Mexican corridos, rancheras, alternative opera and cumbias with high-energy punk, queer and electroclash.

Being yourself, losing yourself, finding yourself again. In Spiral, a group of dancers takes you on a collective journey to transcend the everyday.

Theatre-maker and performer Erwin Kiene breaks the silence: he translates his innermost emotions into the explosive dance style KRUMP.

In a clearing in the pine forest, amidst the monumental remains of a vanished civilisation, five figures dance into existence a world where past and future converge.

Every life is a ballad waiting to be sung! Straight from Rotterdam by way of the sea, the Duintroubadours present stories of today, your stories, captured in song.

Something extraordinary and uncanny comes to life through the power of song, breath, and human effort in this contemporary requiem.

Polder poet, caught between grass and concrete. Somewhere there, at the crossroads of the Zuidas and the Veluwe, is where we find him.

Four acrobats portray the wildest dreams for the future on a seven-meter-high climbing structure. An invitation to look ahead and dare to fantasize together.

Ten people attempt to merge with nature. Voices, movement and percussion meld with the landscape. A musical performance in which you disappear.

A theatrical dance duet for those who struggle to find the right words and, in this fast-paced world, go unheard.

How does it affect parents and children when they don’t look like one another? A musical theatre performance about motherhood, identity, and growing up in a culturally diverse society.

Master storyteller Thomas Dudkiewicz travels through the subconscious of the universe, asking himself: why does he tell stories? Every encounter brings him back to himself.

KRA solves all the world's problems, starting with pollution. How? By creating an action movie about climate heroes—on the spot and together with you! Who inspires real change?

Exclusively for Oerol gifted performer Tom Lanoye brings his Reinaard in the form of a serial in five episodes of one hour each.

Virtuoso harp, electronics, and light art in the dark landscape. Threads is an immersive experience at Oerol 2026.

Three top jugglers show what usually remains hidden: the failures behind the success. An ode to failure, performed with juggling balls.

Discover what the first Surinamese opera still has to tell us more than a century later.

A spectacular performance about the most visited spot on the festival grounds!

De Oare Kant dives into the inner world of a woman whose partner comes out as gay after a long-term relationship. A physical and visual trip.

An educational and musical performance featuring innovative sexual education for both young and old! In this show, cautionary horror stories finally make way for... PLEASURE!

A chicken language course that culminates in a cackling opera, based on intensive research into the world's most undervalued bird.

The seminar by internationally renowned sheep expert Koen Frijns. Based on his one-off experience on a wild, uninhabited Norwegian island.

De Gestampte Meisjes return to the island with new hits in a delightfully polarising show!

An action musical and modern, gentrified YoungGangsters-style take on Romeo and Juliet, packed with colourful characters, raw spectacle, and the occasional slapstick brawl.

Nobody knows anymore what is real and what is fiction in this psychedelic narrative trip. So, we are all the foolish hero with good intentions, Don Quixote. Or not?

De Dansers invite you to step into their world. Join in with a choreography that unfolds on the spot, guided by Josephine van Rheenen and live music.

Together with the audience, dancers traverse the emptiness of the open field. Driven by the rhythm of a ritual, a collective destination approaches, but we are Not Yet there.

With the world at her feet, De Wereldwandelaar is a walking adventure. Around the world in 30 minutes!

A danced manifesto for peace in cocreation with Indigenousa artists from North America.

What if you yourself become part of the story? Step into a Nordic Live Action Role Play (Nordic LARP) and determine the course of this family history.

Do animals make music? In Calling Songs, the calls of natterjack toads are accompanied by the musicians of Zwerm.

Aisa Demeter is a modern musical myth about the power of anger, featuring intense vocal melodies, Caribbean samples, and deep basslines.

NAU’s third birthday, a hopeful celebration that aims to last a thousand years. Can this grim circle birthday grow into an ecstatic rave?

Where sign language and dance merge into a new bodily language.

With live loops, electronica and unmatched virtuosity, Remy van Kesteren connects his classical roots with the electronic music that brought him to the world of pop.

Breathtaking young Pakistani singer with 500 years of a musical family heritage

Artist and architect Rain Wu makes the invisible Raaklijn tangible.

Turbine Songs explores the sound of the energy transition using wind turbines that create music. Can humans, technology, and nature resonate together?

On the beach of Hoorn, seven floating objects move with the wind, together forming a choreography of surrender.

After a container ship spill in the Wadden Sea, a plastic pony washes ashore. It has had a revelation and needs your voice.

Atop the former water tower of Hoorn stands a viewing device designed to both face the unknowable and see it eye to eye. A glimpse of this familiar yet mysterious celestial body.

In this glass installation, the weakening of global ocean currents is made visible. Though they remain unseen to the naked eye, these currents are the primary architects of our climate.

Immerse yourself in a world we know less about than the moon or Mars: the immense world beneath the water's surface.

Experience (again) the magic of post and celebrate analogue connection.

Ecoshroom is an interactive installation that brings plants, fungi, artificial intelligence, and humans together in an autonomous living system, exploring how they can collaborate in symbiosis.

How can construction systems be shaped by ecological processes? A living experiment with biobased shell blocks in the Wadden Sea.

This summer, literary collective DRIE DAGEN FRIS returns to Oerol for the third time with a brand-new literary pop concert.

Poetry boring? Absolutely not! Kruidkoek & Joost Oomen drench it in a bucket of punk-jazz, absurdism, and a liter of childlike overconfidence.

Brandaris Records brings electronic dance music from and to the island.

Alleen een wonder is an ode to the unexpected twist. Can a story save someone?

Together with the audience, dancers traverse the emptiness of the open field. Driven by the rhythm of a ritual, a collective destination approaches, but we are Not Yet there.

An ode to the Frisian sound and rich history, born from friendly alienation and serious humor.

Eight young writers capture Terschelling in words and take you to places you thought you knew, but have never experienced like this before.

A ‘people-pleasing’ soft-activist decides to confront the one emotion he fears most: he wants to become furious for the very first time.

Geschiedenis van een ongeluk (History of an Accident) is about a life-altering phone call and a universal need for connection. An intimate, musical portrait of someone reaching out for help.

Aisa Demeter is a modern musical myth about the power of anger, featuring intense vocal melodies, Caribbean samples, and deep basslines.

Where sign language and dance merge into a new bodily language.

How does it feel when your energy slowly disappears and emptiness takes over? A theatre performance about the loss of energy, while the sand and sea continue to move undisturbed.

In a clearing in the pine forest, amidst the monumental remains of a vanished civilisation, five figures dance into existence a world where past and future converge.

Moto can’t choose between soft and raw; piano or beats? Can they still coexist? And is it possible, hip hop in a theatre?

A hopeful punk show about choosing your own path.

Discover what the first Surinamese opera still has to tell us more than a century later.

Seven songs use their unique musical identities to shape seven rooms and their sweet, funny, and strange inhabitants, each with their own survival strategy following a traumatic experience.

KRA solves all the world's problems, starting with pollution. How? By creating an action movie about climate heroes—on the spot and together with you! Who inspires real change?

What once began as informal gatherings of friends in dunes and bunkers has grown into Uit Je Duinpan: fully legal events with established artists in an inclusive environment.

Let yourself be swept away by Lab Tarab, where tropical beats, Afro-disco, and Arabic techno melt together to create a sweltering dance floor: full of energy, mystery, and connection.

Dancing like back when trance was still made with synthesizers, drum machines, and samplers. And before the smartphone had made its entrance onto the dance floor.

KLUP SOUNDSYSTEM & PETE BLAKER: House, disco and just dancing, toodles!

Coco Coquelicot’s sets blend warm grooves and heavy rolling bass, driven by a deep love of music and a focus on amplifying queer and marginalised voices in nightlife.

Three top jugglers show what usually remains hidden: the failures behind the success. An ode to failure, performed with juggling balls.

Klankkast is a walk and mini-concert by Arjen Boerstra in the smallest concert hall in Europe.

How is it that lying can sometimes be easier than telling the truth? A spectacular audio play about friendship, lies and loyalty.

Ecoshroom is an interactive installation that brings plants, fungi, artificial intelligence, and humans together in an autonomous living system, exploring how they can collaborate in symbiosis.

Atop the former water tower of Hoorn stands a viewing device designed to both face the unknowable and see it eye to eye. A glimpse of this familiar yet mysterious celestial body.

KRA solves all the world's problems, starting with pollution. How? By creating an action movie about climate heroes—on the spot and together with you! Who inspires real change?

NAU’s third birthday, a hopeful celebration that aims to last a thousand years. Can this grim circle birthday grow into an ecstatic rave?

See Terschelling and 45 years of Oerol through different eyes! This year Oerol presents a diverse program in the new Tonnenloods.

This breathtaking aerial dance is an ode to equality and empowerment, capturing the hearts and imaginations of audiences worldwide.

A spectacular performance about the most visited spot on the festival grounds!

An interactive installation about the meat industry that prompts you to take a critical look at our relationship with nature, and specifically the animal kingdom.

With the world at her feet, De Wereldwandelaar is a walking adventure. Around the world in 30 minutes!

The story of the boy who longed to become invisible and transformed into a performing artist.

An over-the-top romantic comedy in the tradition of silent film.

An empty washing line turns into a surprising game: dancing socks, a singing T-shirt and unexpected encounters, without words but full of fun!

Every life is a ballad waiting to be sung! Straight from Rotterdam by way of the sea, the Duintroubadours present stories of today, your stories, captured in song.

An ode to the Frisian sound and rich history, born from friendly alienation and serious humor.

The performance 1+1 GRATIS is an elusive mix of poetry, dance, music, aerobics, mindfulness, crude jokes, high-pitched wailing, Fingerspitzengefühl, sit-down comedy, and sharp-witted bluntness.

An intimate performance about the shame that lingers long after the ugly duckling has left the pond.

Breathtaking young Pakistani singer with 500 years of a musical family heritage

An intimate audio experience in which, with your eyes closed, you walk to the very edge of life.

Being yourself, losing yourself, finding yourself again. In Spiral, a group of dancers takes you on a collective journey to transcend the everyday.

A danced manifesto for peace in cocreation with Indigenousa artists from North America.

Master storyteller Thomas Dudkiewicz travels through the subconscious of the universe, asking himself: why does he tell stories? Every encounter brings him back to himself.

In a clearing in the pine forest, amidst the monumental remains of a vanished civilisation, five figures dance into existence a world where past and future converge.

Something extraordinary and uncanny comes to life through the power of song, breath, and human effort in this contemporary requiem.

Do animals make music? In Calling Songs, the calls of natterjack toads are accompanied by the musicians of Zwerm.

Virtuoso harp, electronics, and light art in the dark landscape. Threads is an immersive experience at Oerol 2026.

The HalfJaarsConference 2026 by keunstner-yn-residinsje (artist-in-residence) Dolf Jansen, exclusively and multiple times at Oerol.

A musical comedy you wouldn't want living next door. And a social satire about a society desperately trying to prove itself right.

What if you yourself become part of the story? Step into a Nordic Live Action Role Play (Nordic LARP) and determine the course of this family history.

Discover what the first Surinamese opera still has to tell us more than a century later.

Geschiedenis van een ongeluk (History of an Accident) is about a life-altering phone call and a universal need for connection. An intimate, musical portrait of someone reaching out for help.

De Oare Kant dives into the inner world of a woman whose partner comes out as gay after a long-term relationship. A physical and visual trip.

An honest story by theatre-maker and writer Freek Vielen about how the beginning and the end of life are inextricably linked.

Together with the audience, dancers traverse the emptiness of the open field. Driven by the rhythm of a ritual, a collective destination approaches, but we are Not Yet there.

Enchanting musical theatre that sprinkles love potion in your eyes and jolts you awake. About dreaming, being defiant, and daring to do something, or nothing at all.

An action musical and modern, gentrified YoungGangsters-style take on Romeo and Juliet, packed with colourful characters, raw spectacle, and the occasional slapstick brawl.

Do animals make music? In Calling Songs, the calls of natterjack toads are accompanied by the musicians of Zwerm.

This breathtaking aerial dance is an ode to equality and empowerment, capturing the hearts and imaginations of audiences worldwide.

A danced manifesto for peace in cocreation with Indigenousa artists from North America.

Something extraordinary and uncanny comes to life through the power of song, breath, and human effort in this contemporary requiem.

Breathtaking young Pakistani singer with 500 years of a musical family heritage

Bacteria, mud, wind, and machinery are transformed into music in a living garden. This extraordinary audiovisual performance—which generates electricity and would leave any gardener amazed—invites you to experience a vibrant, humming ecosystem.

Artist and architect Rain Wu makes the invisible Raaklijn tangible.

The singer, composer and performance artist masterfully blends Catholic hymns, Mexican corridos, rancheras, alternative opera and cumbias with high-energy punk, queer and electroclash.

An eclectic mix of disco, cumbia, house, funk, and rave from Sweden’s most legendary live artist of the moment.

The spirit, ancestral vibrations, and East African roots of Gogo music come to life in the exhilarating performance of The Zawose Queens.

Kaat Van Stralen refuses to be pigeonholed. What began as an original solo project has grown into a genre-defying punk band with a Flemish mega-hit.

Brik Tu-Tok is the freaky, high-energy DIY universe of musicians Linde Carrijn and Maxim Storms, in which they delightfully cultivate the art of anti-pop.

FLOSS blends riot grrrl energy with club beats to forge her own subgenre: Angry Feminist Techno Pop.

GiGi Girls are a Cologne-based trio with Italian roots, reviving the glittering world of Italo-Disco with an influence of Dream Pop and New Romanticism.

Johannes Is Zijn Naam creates Dutch-language dream pop, with Johannes as a fragile crooner, singing and dancing amidst rhythm boxes and synths.

Dutch-language punk band from Belgium, whose debut album has already been elevated to cult status.

Moja is blending rock, punk, and alternative sounds with an electrifying energy!

Legendary, 83-year-old diva from Lake Victoria meets a Nairobi-based duo to celebrate the the rich culture of the Luo people

Rolando Bruno throws the party you won’t want to miss; a celebration in its purest South American form.

Like popping candy on your tongue; that is what the rock ’n’ roll of the iconic, New York-based all-female trio Tchotchke feels like.