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Festival Cement

Every year, Festival Cement treats you to a festival full of exciting performances. About 20 young makers from the Netherlands and Flanders show their work to a curious audience. 

In various places in ’s-Hertogenbosch, the public and professionals are looking at a new generation of performing artists. You can discover young makers and their themes, new forms, and alternative proposals for the future.

In addition to a program full of performances, there is plenty of room for the audience, makers and professionals to meet, enter into dialogue, and delve into the extensive context program.

Festival Cement 2026 takes place from March 20 - March 27

The full programme for Festival Cement 2026 is now online. Tickets for all performances and the context programme are now available for purchase. And don't forget to buy your Bordje Cement.

You decide what you pay
This year, you decide what you pay for a performance. Each performance has three prices. You choose the one that suits you best.
The standard price is our recommended price of £18. Can you pay less? Then choose the lower rate of £12. Can you pay more? Then choose £24, and you'll help someone else to come too.

Festival pass
For frequent visitors, we have a Festival Pass: £45 for those aged 29 and under / £80 regular.

foto Karin Jonkers
Multidisciplinaire performance / English Spoken

Anna Verkouteren Jansen

Junebug

Twin Peaks meets Astro-TV, but gay. June leads an invisible existence in a log cabin in the deep south of the US. Surrounded by forests, she spends her days in front of the television – until the signal starts to falter. With static on our heels, we flash through an American dreamscape of television mediums, takeaway burritos, foggy motel rooms and ghosts from the past.
Musictheatre / Dutch/English with surtitles

Anne-Laure Vandeputte

My Body as a Commodity

In this sultry, musical journey, Anne-Laure Vandeputte transforms her traumas into a fiery celebration. To the driving beats of percussionist Andrew Van Ostade, she takes you on a journey through the cracks in her soul. The stakes are her body. What happened to it, what she allowed to happen, and what she will never allow to happen again.
Performance / English Spoken

Fariborz Karimi

Whispered Dreams

Fariborz and Mona are good friends. Fariborz lives in Amsterdam, Mona in Tehran. Because of the distance between them, they send each other messages and letters. These form the starting point for Whispered Dreams, in which they take the audience on a live journey through their friendship and connection.
Installation / Continuous / Language no Problem

Finn Borath en Boris de Klerk

Roomtone

An ode to something we usually don't pay attention to: fluorescent lighting. By playing with the voltage on the tubes, Finn Borath & Boris de Klerk transform not only the light, but also the sound. The soft clicking and humming normally indicates a faulty fixture, but in Roomtone it is the basis for an electro-acoustic composition. The purely functional lamps are now the creators of a constantly shifting landscape of light and resonance.

foto Bas de Brouwer
Theatre / English Spoken

Just van Bommel

DEAR FRAIL MALE

What if, when it really matters, you were as quick-witted as you had hoped? In DEAR FRAIL MALE, Just van Bommel recounts a personal anecdote about an unexpected “encounter” with a group of boys.

Just reimagines this memory in a textual, rhythmic performance about the (quite literal) weight of the male norm. Performed by two men, Just delves into the struggles of boys and men in their search for identity within a society that sees aggression as strength and vulnerability as weakness.

Performance / Preview / On the street / Language no Problem

Lotte Boonstra

Eight (or maybe nine) universal truths about human nature

A pop-up of living sculptures of humans in their natural habitat. Digging, mining, building – becoming increasingly stuck in their own human world. Lotte Boonstra presents a preview of absurd, humorous costumes that have evolved into sculptures. 
Visual theatre / Language no Problem

Marieke Heerema

Born For Nothing

In an abandoned factory hall, workers carry out monotonous rituals: one processes it, another packages it, a third removes whatever does not meet the standard. The created beings are not regarded as alive or valuable, but only as products. No wonder, no doubt, no protest—only actions, distance, and automatism.
Musictheatre / English Spoken

Sabine Pendry

I hope this finds you well

The words fly across the screen and a voice floats through the room. In a strange room, a young woman types a letter to an unnamed recipient. She sings what she cannot type and types what she cannot sing, constantly searching for the right words.
Music / English Spoken

Tabooboo

TABOOBOO MAKES MUSIC

Tabooboo tears down the stage in a whirlwind of anuses, baroque pop, camp and cabaret, somewhere between concert and performance. EDM and ballads steeped in humour and performativity play with themes such as desire, taboo and identity.
Visual theatre / Language no Problem

Zephyr Brüggen, Han Ruiz Buhrs, Niels Kuiters

Het Dromenpaleis

What if our night-time dreams are not only personal, but also have a collective meaning? What do our dreams say about the world and the spirit of the times in which we live during the day?
Contextprogram / Both in English and Dutch

Ruth Benschop

Consultatiebureau De Badkuip

One-on-one reflection on programme making with researcher Ruth Benschop. Are you a programmer, festival organiser, curator or do you have a similar role? Then this is your chance to have an individual conversation about what it means to be a gatekeeper, creating legitimacy, resistance and the burning question: how do you do it right?
Festival / Language no Problem

Bordje Cement

Eet je een hapje mee?

Want to grab a bite to eat before the show? Then join us for a Plate of Cement in our Festival Heart in the Verkadefabriek.

You can purchase your Plate of Cement online up to one day in advance, which will cost you €18.00. You can join us  from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM for a vegetarian or vegan meal, Served without raw building materials.

Friday 20 March - Friday 27 March 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM