Recap // Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam 2025

From March 25 to 30, the fourth edition of the Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam took place!

Since 2022, the Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam has provided a platform for queer perspectives through groundbreaking forms of visual theater, object theater, and puppetry. This unconventional festival challenges norms with a vibrant and bold program full of extravagant, visual spectacles from both domestic and international artists.

And what a celebration it was!

In the media:

The Queering Puppets bus has seats available – Wijbrand Schaap, Cultuurpers

"If your evening starts with a stripping festival director and ends with pole dancing, you know you're not in an ordinary theater. That's right—I was at the opening of the Queering Puppets Festival at Amsterdam’s most ‘Plein’ theater, and it was a celebration. The Plein Theater largely owes that to the stripping director, Berith Danse, who embodies everything she expressed in her opening speech: there’s a seat on the bus for everyone..."

Photos: March 26, 2025 – OPENING DAY
March 28, 2025 – QUEERING NIGHT
Photographer: Ernie Buts
 

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