ITCE presents two one-act plays by Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter in an immersive performance that blurs the line between theatre and reality. Performed on an empty floor of the Veemgebouw, the audience moves through the scenes—standing at the prison gate in Mountain Language, then witnessing the chilling interrogations of One for the Road. This is not your average performance.

Mountain Language

A group of female visitors wait outside all day to see their imprisoned husbands, tormented by guard dogs and insulted by the army. Then we go inside for a closer look at the inhumane regime. The ban on the prisoners’ native language. A young woman seeing her abused husband. Streams of devastating insults. The last glimpse of an old woman who, finally allowed to speak the forbidden language, has nothing to say.

Actors: Çağla Gürsoy, Conor O’brien, Fateme Mohseninejad, Marisa Caldeira, Nurudeen Ismail, Sankalp Jain, Anne Peters, Barbaros Bensoy, Sofia Occhini, Zuriñe Alacrue Alonso

One for the Road

We follow the interrogation of a seemingly ordinary family who have broken the rules of the totalitarian regime under which they live, although their transgressions are never specified. Nicholas, the man interrogating the family, is not a Gestapo-like criminal but a man of intelligence, education, and faith, a man who seems to believe that every action he takes against enemies of the state is in the interest of everyone.

Actors: Adam Broniewski, Bart van de Goor, Beata Schrier, Vera Harthoorn