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publicity image by Pauline Matusiak and Eddy Wenting

From 3 to 7 April, Plein Theater and Cat Smits Company present the Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam!

by one of our members
19 March 202419 March 2024
3 min read
PRESS, PODIUM ART, THEATER

The Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam provides a stage for genre-transcending forms of visual theatre, object theatre, puppetry and queer perspectives. The third edition of the festival has the theme 'Weapons of the Weak', highlighting the power of vulnerability as a political tool. The highlight of the festival is the farewell performance by Neville Tranter, one of the world's best-known puppeteers, who after...

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Summer concerts New Notes Amsterdam in Plein Theatre

by one of our members
6 June 2023
3 min read
ACTUAL, FAITS DIVERS, MUSIC, PRESS

This summer, Plein Theater and Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam present three contemporary music concerts, and after the summer, again monthly on Sunday afternoons! On the weekend of 17 and 18 June, the concerts are part of New Music NOW's Day of the Composer. NEW NOTES AMSTERDAM New Notes Amsterdam provides a stage for contemporary chamber music. New compositions and leading musicians, in...

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PR image Queer Puppetry Festival by Paulina Matusiak and Eddy Wnting

[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.

by one of our members
19 February 2023
2 min read
PRESS, THEATER

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. Plein Theater and Puppetry Workspace defy the norm with this festival full of garish visual excesses from...

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Marte Boneschansker presents: ROUW - Walk through Amsterdam East past places of loss

by one of our members
11 October 2022
3 min read
VISUAL, PRESS

On Friday 4 November, ROUW, the latest work by theatre-maker Marte Boneschansker, will premiere at Plein Theater in Amsterdam-Oost. ROUW is a walk along places of loss. With headphones on, you follow a carefully mapped out route through the neighbourhood to listen to stories of mourning that correspond to the locations in question. ROUW is about loss. About that...

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Square Theatre loses facebook page over nipple in poster image

by one of our members
29 August 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, PRESS

Social media censors on woman's nipple and Plein Theatre loses facebook page over nipple in poster image of Cat Smits Company's performance Nouveau Fuck. This digital prudishness and sexist inequality goes way too far, Berith Danse and Cat Smits think. Facebook is known for a strict 'no nudity' policy, at least not for men, as naked male torsos are no problem at all. Photos that...

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Plein Theater and Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam present a new season of contemporary chamber music concerts from May to December 2022!

by one of our members
19 May 202219 May 2022
MUSIC, PRESS

Plein Theater and Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam present a new season of contemporary chamber music concerts from May to December 2022! The next concert at Plein Theater on Sunday 29 May features Greek violinist Tania Sikelianou as a guest in honour of the 100th birthday of Greek composer Iannis Xenakis. On Sunday 19 June, Trio Napolov, Fridman, Sandee will play on the piano,...

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New theatre incubator De Dapper in Amsterdam Oost

by one of our members
23 March 2022
3 min read
PRESS, PODIUM ART

In Amsterdam East, the new theatre breeding ground De Dapper will be located in the former Muiderpoort Theatre, which was established as a dance theatre in the 1980s. The development of Broedplaats De Dapper will be carried out by Stichting PodiumPartners and supported by Bureau Broedplaatsen of the City of Amsterdam. Stichting PodiumPartners/ Plein Theater is thus fulfilling a long-held dream to create available space for experimentation, crossovers...

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Plein Theater and Puppetry Workspace present the first edition of the QUEERING PUPPETS FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM from 23 to 27 March 2022!

by one of our members
18 March 2022
2 min read
PRESS, PODIUM ART

QUEERING PUPPETS FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM gives the stage to genre-transcending forms of visual theatre and puppetry. A fusion of craft and technology, where traditional categories are dissolved before the eye of the beholder. During this multi-day festival, for once the focus is not on people, but on things. With what characters and objects are we surrounded? How does the imagination awaken them?

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Everyday objects hijack Square Theatre all spring break

by one of our members
17 February 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, PRESS, PODIUM ART

STIP Theatre Productions and Plein Theatre present the youth theatre performance Micro... things revolt (7+) throughout spring break. In this imaginative and humorous performance, everyday objects are given life. They are given voices and feelings and go into fierce protest. There are plenty of extra bonus activities daily in the theatre for children to experience before and after the performance. About the performance...

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Plein Theatre is open as a Pop Up Gallery & Store! The Gallery features the Dutch premiere of the 3D video simulation installation Event Horizon by digital sculptor, simulator and animator Jaehun Park.

by one of our members
18 January 2022
4 min read
PRESS, SERVICE

From 16 January, Plein Theater will be open as a Pop Up Gallery & Store, where the Dutch premiere of the 3D video simulation installation Event Horizon by artist Jaehun Park will be on display. Jaehun Park (born 1986, South Korea) is a digital sculptor, simulator and animator. The artist's work and his book Real-time limbo will also be on sale. Besides the...

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For a festive family outing in the Christmas holidays, head to Square Theatre with the theatre production Nietsnut! (6+) by theatre group Who Whale!

by one of our members
9 December 202130 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, PRESS

This Christmas holiday, the performance Nietsnut! by Theatre Group Who Whale is playing at Plein Theatre! To be seen from Boxing Day 26 December to 2 January at 13:00 and 16:00. The performance is an ode to nonsense. To a world you only see when everything falls silent and you have time to look very carefully. A world full of fantasy that you...

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Plein Theatre and The Market Theatre present FOODCHAINZ: A culinary evening and theatre performance about our food chain.

by one of our members
23 September 2021
2 min read
ACTUAL, PRESS, PODIUM ART

FOODCHAINZ is an intermedial project and evening-long programme consisting of a tomato dinner with special guests from the food chain, the exhibition HARVEST FROM THE HOOD, the audio tour From Farmer to Plate and the theatre performance FOODCHAINZ! To be seen on 7, 8, 9, 14 and 15 October at Plein Theater in Amsterdam Oost! Tickets include dinner and bonus programming and are available at...

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