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In the Dutch theatre scenery a close-knit ensemble has become a rare phenomenon. For De Appel the ensemble is of vital importance. This means that in choosing our repertoire, we always try to provide an optimal cast for our own ensemble. However, always under the condition that the group of actors is willing to keep on developing and to show creativity.
Guest actors are of course invited for practically every production; either because there are too many parts for our own ensemble to perform, or because a part might demand a specific quality.
For more than 33 years, De Appel has been performing in its own Appeltheater, situated in the Duinstraat in Scheveningen. Once this was the coach-house of The Hague's horsedrawn trams and now it has been converted by De Appel into a flexible and attractive theatre. A theatre in which the company can experiment according to its own views, and in which we can search for audience set-ups that match with the play. No other company has been able to visualize the flexibility of its own building in the performances to that extent. Designers such as Tom Schenk, André Joosten and Guus van Geffen have - in a three-dimensional sense - created their greatest miracles in the Appeltheater.
The Appeltheater has three auditoriums in which performances can be produced: the main auditorium with a capacity of between 300 and 500 people (depending on the stand's set-up) and two small studios each providing space for about 100 seats.
In addition to our own theatre and the theatres elsewhere in the Netherlands that we visit with the tour performances, site-specific projects have increasingly been given a prominent place in our programming.