Order of the day - Het nieuwstedelijk

Theatre producer Stijn Devillé brings Éric Vuillard’s award-winning novel Orde van de dag to the stage. February 1933: twenty-four influential industry leaders secretly pledge financial support to the Nazis. Their names still sound eerily familiar today: Bayer, Krupp, BMW, Opel... What follows is the build-up to the Anschluss. This true story is not a tale of heroic determination, but rather an unraveling of innocent dinners, anxious phone calls and bluff. Using sharp irony, the piece exposes the grotesque intimidation and power games that are misleading the world. \"Whilst the play makes you laugh so much – sometimes with a grin, sometimes with a roar of laughter – it also constantly makes you reflect on the parallels with the tactics of bluffing, intimidation and selling spectacle that are the usual norms.\" – Pzazz