‘tens:ding [bending over backwards]’
“How far do you contort yourself to accommodate for another?”
AMSTERDAM FRINGE FESTIVAL
3 - 13 SEPTEMBER 2026
3 - 13 SEPTEMBER 2026
Archive program
12 Kisses Before Midnight
Irina Koriazova & Sanne van Dijk
Do you remember your first kiss? Would you know when it’s your
2 Tears for the Villains
Bad Bags [Lady Bag & BanShee]
Warning: this show might cause demonic possession. If symptoms persist, consult
A Fools’ Bag
Take a nosedive into the bag of a fool, where hopelessness blossoms and breaks every rule!
All About Me and My Mother
Drag therapy theater show where drag artist Indie Nile plays both himself and his mother
All About Us
Jonathan Bonny & Manuel Kiros Paolini
Searching for authenticity in a world that celebrates queerness only when
Als alles niet altijd zo mooi was
Absurd flavoured performance: Welcome to the age of tongue! Ingredients: flashy, pickled humour, fermented confrontation
AN HONORIFIC SHOW OF DRAG
Come visit The Creature… it will do everything it takes to entertain you, and to make you fall in
And my Heart Almost Stood Still
an interrupted solo, inspired by Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and a letter by Helen Keller
Anders Ik Wel
Geoffrey van der Ven
The show about what shame does to you when you are different
Another Shot
Enter a garden of stories with Marijn, finding light in darkness and unlocking your own narrative
Becoming Tiger
Spend time with a tiger and reflect upon (trans)identity and how humans construct social spaces
Between Heart and Hole
Iacopo Loliva
Dance meets porn: a love letter where the anus gets the final word!
big small otherwise
Isadora Tomasi in collaboration with Rita Bifulco & Konstantinos Chatzikypraios
Two Performers Explore Queer Fluidity, Pleasure, and
Breaking Bread
PicoPi Collective
A shared theatrical experience where connections bake, conversations spill, and we become family
But First You Must Become Nobody
Experience 1.54 Special’s experimental performance merging the disciplines of poetry, music, and painting to foster communal ritual.
Call me Lole
Nacho Sanz Fernández
A fierce flamenco performance breaking free from tradition and stereotypical gender roles
Combitickets
Do you want to see more than one show a day, but is it difficult to choose? We’ve made
Come Unity
Lana van der Brug
An invitation to everyone; come let your inner freak out in Club Trouw
Cyborg DNA – Version Explicit
“From cryopreservation to hijacking of emotions. Through transcendental meditation visualizing a technologically enhanced cyborg-body.”
Daddy’s little problem
Priscilla ter Voert
What happens to a little girl if sexual violence is all she knows?
Dat wat ontembaar is: criatura
Melisa Diktaş
That which resides at the borders of existence…
De Grote Gaslight Meta-Musical
A bizarre mini-meta-musical filled with dark humour and absurdist twists
De Lampenwinkel
Jaap Blankespoor
A poetic performance about faith, obedience and enlightenment
De Vergadering
A performance about meetings and the people who attend them, shaped as an absurd comedy
DELUSIONAL I killed a man
A heart-stopping circus show unravels the profound beauty of self-discovery on a trans woman’s path
Digital Manipulation
A circus duet that questions the relationship that many individuals have to their phones nowadays
Dreams of the Small Gods
Circus, theatre and masked ritual combine to create a story of mythological transformation
En Attendant
Ahmed Mokadem / Cie Vanished/Les Disparues
Wherever his mind wonders, his hands follow. Wait with him and
Everybody is always six handshakes away from Paris Hilton’s coke dealer
Tijn Hoekzema & Megan de Kruijf
Sexy text-based theatre about hedonism, ambition, and a handshake with divine
Extremist Alice
Based on the true story of a brave transgender activist who fled from Russia to the Netherlands
Fringe day pass
How many shows can you see in one day? Definitely a lot with our Fringe day pass!
Fringe x Meervaart
FACE A TRUTH
Two unconventional performances about surrender, fear and the challenging search for stability.
Fringe x NTF: Late Night Bar
End your Fringe day with a surprising and festive evening in the Fringe X NTF Late Night Bar!
Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss
A gen-z ‘eat the rich’ chamber play about nepo baby’s and public shaming
Göbek Aşkı
The grey area between rejection and acceptance and the silent love languages in a Muslim family
Het Gebouw
“The most beautiful thing about my burrow is the stillness. Of course, that is deceptive.“
HUTAN-HANTU
Unearthing colonial violence below our feet by following the scratches in our wooden stage floors
i hope this finds you well
An electronic opera. A call into the void and a struggle for the right words.
I Never Lie
Agnese Valmaggia
A multisensory performance about me and my struggle with expected behaviours
Iraqi Bodies
An audiovisual dance performance exploring the impact of displacement on the body
It’s a Feeling
Pensive Vivifier
A poetic doomscroll through memory, mind and media – where overexposure meets emotional survival
Jongen, Je Moeder
A surrealistic theater performance with imposing dancing, live music and text, Rotterdam style: raw and full of (dark) humour
Killing You Softly
A thrilling theatrical journey exploring the seductive grip of AI that’s creeping in to replace humans
KIP: Theatervoorstelling voor kippen
Finally, a show that’s not exclusively for humans. Escape your human-centered bubble and enjoy!
Late Night Bar
NTF x Amsterdam Fringe Festival
End your Fringe day with a festive evening in the Fringe X
Late night bar #1 – Thur 5 Sept
End your Fringe day with a festive evening in the Fringe X NTF Late Night Bar!
Late Night Bar #2 – Fri 6 Sept
End your Fringe day with a festive evening in the Fringe X NTF Late Night Bar!
Late Night Bar #3 – Sat 7 Sept
End your Fringe day with a festive evening in the Fringe X NTF Late Night Bar!
Late Night Bar #4 – Thur 12 Sept
End your Fringe day with a festive evening in the Fringe X NTF Late Night Bar!
Late Night Bar #5 – Fri 13 Sept
End your Fringe day with a festive evening in the Fringe X NTF Late Night Bar!
Late night bar #6 – Sat 14 Sept
End your Fringe day with a festive evening in the Fringe X NTF Late Night Bar!
Meet the Method
Welcome to the only self-help course you’ll ever need again. The results? Mesmerizing.
Motel Bed – A Pillow Princess Fantasy
Pretty Poison Cabaret
Welcome to the Motel Bed, where queer fantasies meet murder-mysteries and shit hits the fan
Moving Narrative
Amber Docters van Leeuwen
Docu-theatre about three generations, adoption, Seoul, and the fluid boundary between fact and imagination
My Pussy is Coming for You
Rachel Hansoul
A woman in the city, nearly devoured by male force, reclaims her pussy power
My Therapist is A Volcano
Saman Mahdavi
We are attending a therapy session , of a dinosaur and her therapist , THE VOLCANO
NOORDERLICHT
Surrender to a music-theatrical expedition with ‘getting lost’ as destination
ODA AL MAL PARIDX
An immersive live installation/performance in honor of transgenerational grieving
oh, wild gazelle, where are you?
A collective dream that makes remote choreographic collaboration possible between Amsterdam and Tehran
Onderstroom
“Onderstroom”: an enchanting physical theatre performance that explores the power and essence of the playful human spirit
Pampa’s Pride
A movie pitch turns into a storytelling show about an immigrant’s national identity
Pecado Inmaculado
Hear the clanking sound of my spilled blood, splattered stains left on your bones
People Are Awful
Next Best Fringe winner People Are Awful returns – a daring solo performance that celebrates queer resilience
PINOKKIO LOST TIME
A coming-of-age fairy-tale about the search for your (sexual and/or gender) identity in a heteronormative society
PLEASE LEAVE (a message)
ClusterFlux become scientists/linguistic experts/karaoke superstars, communicating a danger 10.000 years into the future
Pulling Scales
Goyes’ka | Henry Rodríguez
A visceral immersion in identity, repression, and resilience, inspired by Cuba and surrealism.
re:shape or headless into the sea
A performance following the speculative wobbles into worlds of fluid bodies and tentacular movement
Rite van wat Was
Interdisciplinary dance performance designed to saturate the audience in a sensorial odyssey of ecological heartbreak.
Searching for Sugardaddy! (to pay for Amsterdam rent)
Yara Baas & Eva Gebbinck
Absurdist and sexy feverdream about sugardaddies
Smuggled Tea Performance
Smuggled tea brews as a Turkish-Kurdish duo tries to make a dance piece together
SOMA & SKELETON
”If you listen to your body when it whispers…. you won’t have to hear it scream.”
sometimes I sit and think and sometimes I just sit
Two brothers wander away from reality, whilst a soft yet compelling night radio show fills the void
Songcycle for a Sad Clown
Sabine Pendry
An eerie cabaret for clown, choir, clarinet, piano and percussion. An anthem for the ache.
SuckerPunch
SuckerPunch is the piece that will knock down everything you thought you knew about masculinity
The Absent Academy
You’ll play a student of lost languages, learn to draw disappeared faces and other forgotten knowledge.
The Big Queer Tour: ReQueering History
Backlash Media Productions
Discover Amsterdam’s hidden queer past through stories, sites, and secrets on a screamingly queer tour
The Dispatcher
Unmask the truth about yourself in this raw and captivating storytelling show
The Forest Has No End
What happens in the forest when no one is looking: an audience-led storytelling experience
The Impossible Astronaut
Astrid Rozemarijn Klein Haneveld
A dancing space journey through grief and science fiction, in search of Astrids deceased
The Origin Of The Future
Aline Olmos Steler
Can vaginal fluids predict the arrival of the next meteor?
The Princesses
Your childhood doll knows all the secrets. And she is ready to spill it out!
The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner: Remixed
Julian Shakes Story
A hip-hop reinterpretation of the 18th century epic poem ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.’
THE TIME IT TAKES {nomadic}
Izah Hankammer
A fever dream where dance, drums and suppressed distress send you into a frenzy
THIS IS DEFINITELY NOT A STORY ABOUT WITCHES
DrieVrouwen gives voice to their feminist perspective on the West-European witch hunts and the current patriarchy
