Why you shouldn’t miss this!
Why you shouldn’t miss this!
The Interrogation is a raw, intimate collaboration between director Milo Rau and writer Édouard Louis, blending personal testimony with urgent political critique. The work unfolds as a stark monologue that revisits moments of violence, class shame, and queer identity in contemporary France. Rau’s minimalist staging amplifies Louis’ searing honesty, creating a space where personal memory becomes collective reckoning. Together, they interrogate not only the past but the structures, social, familial, and theatrical, that shape how stories are told and heard. The result is a powerful meditation on truth, power, and the act of bearing witness.
PRODUCTION GUIDANCE
The Interrogation is performed in Dutch with English surtitles
Date + Time
Date + Time
About
About
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
- Thu Mar 26 – Sat Mar 28
- 7:30 PM
- $35-$80
Run Time
RUN TIME This performance runs 65 minutes with no intermission
Language
PRODUCTION GUIDANCE The Interrogation is performed in Dutch with English surtitles
Gallery
Gallery
Photo by Michiel Devijver
Creative Credits
Creative Credits
Text: Édouard Louis & Milo Rau
Direction: Milo Rau
Performance: Arne de Tremerie
Dramaturgy: Carmen Hornbostel
Director assistant: Giacomo Bisordi and François Pacco (on tour)
Technical direction: Jens Baudisch
Light design: Dennis Diels and Ulrich Kellermann (on tour)
Sound and video: Jens Baudisch
Production Management: Mascha Euchner–Martinez and François Pacco (on tour)
Translation: Erik Borgman, Kaatje De Geest and François Pacco
An IIPM production – coproduced by NTGent and ITA – International Theatre Amsterdam; originally commissioned for the Kunstenfestivaldesarts
The artists
The artists
Milo Rau
Milo Rau, a Swiss theater and film director, journalist, essayist, and lecturer, founded the theater and film production company International Institute of Political Murder (IIPM) which he has been running ever since. His productions, campaigns and films have been invited to some of the biggest national and international festivals. The Belgian newspaper La Libre Belgique recently named him “one of Europe’s most sought-after directors” with the German weekly Der Freitag describing him “as the most controversial theatre director of his generation.”
Édouard Louis
Édouard Louis is the author of four novels, The End of Eddy, History of Violence, Who Killed my father and Struggles and Metamorphosis of a Woman. He is also, with Thomas Ostermeier, the co-author of the play At the heart of violence and the editor of a book on the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu. He is a translator of the Canadian poet Anne Carson and he regularly collaborates with artists, such as Ken Loach, James Ivory, Stanislas Nordey, and now Milo Rau. He considers literature as a weapon. His books have been translated into thirty languages and have made him one of the most celebrated writers of his generation.
NTGent
NTGent (or Nederlands Toneel Gent) was founded in 1965 as the city theater of Ghent. As a city theater, NTGent wants to question, motivate and rouse a diverse audience. it does so by making and presenting high-profile productions and by mobilizing theatre for social debate. It presents its own theatre productions as well as guest productions, touring in Flanders, the Netherlands and internationally.
Support
Support
This project is made possible in part with support from the General Delegation of the Government of Flanders to the USA.
“The Interrogation” is a production of the International Institute of Political Murder (IIPM) in coproduction with Kunstenfestivaldesarts, NTGent & International Theatre Amsterdam ITA.
NYU Skirball’s programs are made possible in part with support from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and the Howard Gilman Foundation; Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels; Culture Ireland; The Shubert Foundation; Collins Building Services; General Delegation of the Government of Flanders to the USA; Goethe Institut New York with support from the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany; Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation; Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; New England Foundation for the Arts; Harkness Foundation for Dance; and Marta Heflin Foundation; as well as our valued donors through memberships, commissioning, and Allies for Arts Access Fund support.
