The Indestructible Dutch Sisters

 New chances to see the musical farce De Onverwoeste Zusters van Hoogezand-Sappemeer around the Netherlands:

Bos Theaterproducties present

De Onverwoeste Zusters van Hoogezand-Sappemeer (The Indestructible Sisters of Hoogezand-Sappemeer)

based on an idea Ilse Warringa and Rop Verheijen

Script by Ilse Warringa

Directed by Leopold Witte

With Ilse Warringa, Rop Verheijen,  Eva van Gessel, Leopold Witte, and Margôt Ros

After the success of De Ongeplukte Zusters van Almere County, based on the work of Jane Austen, the creators now present De Onverwoeste Zusters van Hoogezand-Sappemeer, inspired by the lives of the literary sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne  Brontë. 

A passionate musical comedy about attraction, revenge, sisterly love, and the age-old yearning for recognition, even in the afterlife. And all the while, the ghost of the wildly handsome Heathcliff, from Emily's novel Wuthering Heights, continues to haunt…   

The cast includes comedians Ilse Warringa, Rop Verheijen, Eva van Gessel, Leopold Witte, and Margôt Ros, promising another humorous and musical evening that pokes fun at the male norms of both the 19th and 21st centuries. The beautiful poems of the Brontë sisters are set to music by Bart Rijnink, and Leopold Witte directs.

The three Brontë sisters—along with their perpetually drunken brother and absent father—reflect entertainingly on their lives in Yorkshire, Northern England, circa 1847. A life filled with competition, typhus, tuberculosis, consumption, and jealousy, where there was little to laugh about. The sisters spent their days writing—now world-famous—stories and poems, under male pseudonyms, because literature, after all, was not for women. 

Their urge for artistic freedom and recognition was so overwhelming that even now, in death, the sisters compete with each other for the best story and the most success. To banish the ghosts of the past, their history must be relived. While Emily seeks refuge in romantic tales of stormy heaths, all-consuming passion, and fiery, doomed love in Wuthering Heights, Charlotte and Anne keep things a bit closer to home, because that—still!—is more understandable and therefore sells better. But how much more must be reenacted before they dare to face their past? The sisters learn to live with death by reconciling themselves with their lives and with each other, so thankfully, there's plenty to laugh about again.

Dutch tour:

January 2026

 3 jan 20:15 Spant!  Bussum

4 jan 15:00 Spant!  Bussum

7 jan 20:00 Theater aan het Vrijthof, Maastricht

9 jan 20:00 De Goudse Schouwburg, Gouda

10 jan 20:00       De Goudse Schouwburg, Gouda

14 jan 20:00 Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, Utrecht

15 jan 20:00 Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, Utrecht

16 jan 20:00 Zaantheater, Zaandam

17 jan 20:00 Zaantheater, Zaandam

20 jan 20:00       Schouwburg Amstelveen, Amstelveen

21 jan 20:00 Schouwburg Amstelveen, Amstelveen

22 jan 20:00 Schouwburg Kunstmin, Dordrecht

23 jan 20:00 Schouwburg Kunstmin, Dordrecht

27 jan 20:15 Schouwburg het Park, Hoorn

28 jan 20:15 Schouwburg het Park, Hoorn

30 jan 20:15 Stadsschouwburg De Harmonie, Leeuwarden

February 2026

4 feb 20:00 Schouwburg Agnietenhof, Tiel

5 feb 20:00 Schouwburg Agnietenhof, Tiel

6 feb 20:00 Theater Orpheus, Apeldoorn

7 feb 20:00 Theater Orpheus, Apeldoorn