THE DUTCH WOMEN

About the show

A motley crew sets off into the rainforests of Central America to piece together the mysterious disappearance of two young female tourists, to explore it artistically and to turn it into a play. Among them is a writer who will later recount her experiences. And she does not merely report on them, but weaves many more stories into her account, which increasingly make it clear that there is no such thing as an unambiguous truth in this world. With Die Holländerinnen, Dorothee Elmiger has not only written a novel that won the German Book Prize in 2025, but also a text about storytelling itself: from the overarching plot of a madcap theatre project in the rainforest, numerous stories fan out about the fringes of civilisation and consciousness, about the blurred boundary between truth and delusion, nature and culture. As dense and interwoven, as hypnotising as the tropical vegetation itself. Jan Friedrich has already received several awards for his numerous novel adaptations; his production of Kim de l’Horizon’s Blutbuch earned him an invitation to the 2023 Berlin Theatertreffen.