[PRESS RELEASE]Plein Theater and Puppetry Workspace present the second edition of the Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam from 28 March to 2 April 2023! In doing so, Plein Theater celebrates a 40-year anniversary.

QUEERING PUPPETS FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM

28 March to 2 April 2023

Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam has provided a stage for genre-transcending forms of visual theatre and puppetry since 2022. A fusion of craft and technology, dissolving traditional categories before the eye of the beholder. Square Theatre and Puppetry Workspace defy the norm with this festival full of motley visual excesses from home and abroad. QPFA is LGBTQI+ friendly, feminist, activist and above all: Superb in quirkiness!

"Queering is something we do, rather than something we are (or are not). Even the term queer itself can be queered, because much of queer theory involves working to fight against normalisation even in the field itself." 

THE FEMININE & NATURE

This year's focus is on the themes of the feminine and nature in relation to society. The festival and its programming is pro connection and emancipation, anti war and power, pro strength and intuition and pro the unseen and unnameable that is considered undervalued in society. Femininity, the creative, the vulnerable AND Mother Earth.

PROGRAM

The Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam will take place from Tuesday 28 March to Sunday 2 April 2023 at Plein Theater and Hotel Arena in Amsterdam Oost. During the festival, expect large and smaller performances, street theatre, acts, installations, exhibitions, workshops and more for youth and adults including Corporación Humor y Vida from Ecuador, Opposable Thumb Theatre from England, Daniel Hellmann aka 'Soya The Cow' from Switzerland, The Paper Ensemble, Studio Figur, Cezanne Tegelberg Company and more!

OPENING QPFA2023 & 40-YEAR ANNIVERSARY SQUARE THEATRE

The festival will open on 28 March with the exhibition Vulva Variety by Meike van de Akker (theatre maker/keramist) in Plein Theater, an exhibition by Matt Jackson Studios (puppet maker) in the foyer of Hotel Arena and the performance #17 by The Paper Ensemble in Plein Theater's theatre hall. This will not only kick off the second edition of the Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam, but also the celebration of Plein Theater's 40th anniversary!