As of 2024[update], there are three co-directors: Yves Degryse, Barbara Raes, and Melih Gençboyacı, while Rau is responsible for the 2023–2024 artistic programme.
[2] Wanting to reshape the model of the European stadtstheater, believing that they are exclusive and elitist, and wanting to create "something more open" and better reflecting the multicultural nature of European cities today, Rau introduced his 10-point "Ghent Manifesto",[3] in which he declared, among other stipulations:[4] Rau stepped down from the role of artistic director in January 2023, although he continues to be involved with NTGent.
[2] Until 2018, the company comprised a permanent ensemble of actors, which included Elsie de Brauw, Wim Opbrouck, Els Dottermans, Risto Kübar, and others.
The title is a reference to Jean-Luc Godard's documentary film Histoire(s) du Cinéma, which recalled key moments in the history of European cinema.
[6] Rau and his NTGent team travelled to the state of Pará in Brazil, where Amazonian forests are being destroyed and replaced by the cultivation of soy monoculture.
[7] There is filmed re-enactment of the 1996 Eldorado do Carajás massacre, in which military police opened fire on a peaceful protest, killing 21 activists and injuring 69 others.
Its artists in residence are: Ontroerend Goed, Miet Warlop & Irene Wool vzw, and Action Zoo Humain.
[15] Theatre patrons with visual or auditory disabilities, or those not fluent in Dutch are able to borrow a tablet to help them follow the performance, using a personalised app.