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Absurd and moving theater with rough edges at Amsterdam Fringe Festival

From NRC Handelsblad · () Dutch

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  • The 20th Amsterdam Fringe Festival gives experimental theater makers space to work outside conventional boundaries.
  • The program includes performances about lonely storks, a Brazilian adoption story and a self-mocking freak show.
  • The productions combine absurdity, emotion and deliberately rough edges.

Theater steps outside the beaten path at the Amsterdam Fringe Festival, where unconventional makers expose their vulnerabilities on stage during the event’s 20th edition.

The festival brings together performances that are both absurd and moving. Their subjects range from lonely storks and a Brazilian adoption story to a freak show presented with self-mocking humor.

The productions are united by their willingness to embrace rough edges rather than smooth them away.

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