She fervently hopes that it will not come to that, but it is possible that the curtain will fall in a year. Earlier this site brought out the news that all alarm bells in the culture sector are in the red, as a result of inflation and screeching energy prices.
Theater director Hammink is working on programming for next season. Not the usual hundred performances, but barely half. “I only program until the end of 2023. Not for the period after that.” That has everything to do with the uncertain future. “Either we renovate the theater, or we stop,” says Hammink. That doomsday scenario is anything but imaginary, because the theater in the Theaterhotel is in dire straits.