Funny Amsterdam Festival

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Five nights. The best of Amsterdam’s comedy scene, and beyond.

Stand-up, improv, and top international visiting acts across the whole festival.

14 to 18 October at Mike’s Badhuistheater.

Maestro!

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Twelve improvisers enter. One Maestro leaves.

The audience scores every scene, knocking players out round by round until a single champion remains.

Last one standing takes the crown, and a Canadian five-dollar bill.

Palas Pandıras

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[TURKISH LANGUAGE]

Palas Pandıras graduation improv show, in Turkish, at Mike’s Badhuistheater. Saturday 24 October. Unscripted scenes built from audience suggestions. Tickets €15.

Two Gentlemen of Verona – We Love Shakespeare Ensemble

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Two best friends travel to Milan and fall for the same woman.
Shakespeare’s first comedy: betrayal, mumbled apologies, and everyone somehow married by the end.
Built from scratch in 14 weeks by the We Love Shakespeare Ensemble.

Love VS Fear in Shakespeare

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Romeo and Juliet in Rome, 1921. Othello in the early twentieth century. Antony and Cleopatra as teenagers.

Six students from the Barlaeus Gymnasium have spent almost a year adapting Shakespeare, each play directed by the cast of another.

Love or fear: which one wins?

Furniture Boys

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Furniture endures. Boyfriends? Not so much.

Emily Weitzman brings her five-star Edinburgh Fringe comedy to Mike’s Badhuistheater for one night only.

Velvet Revolution Anniversary

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Celebrate the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution with Slovak and Czech snacks and drinks, a short film, a discussion with guest speakers and time to meet people. Held mostly in English, open to everyone.

NOORDHAUS Double Bill : Room Number Three

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The board of directors are meeting again. In their endless pursuit of the perfectly optimised meeting, looping discussions about previous meetings lead them further and further from the agenda — until corporate absurdity tips into total chaos. Noordhaus present Room Number Three by M. Anton and O. Moyne. Followed by a Q&A.

Bird Brain Theatre Presents: Mrs Dalloway

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Bird Brain Theatre brings Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway to the stage in a new adaptation by Imogen Cooper. One day in post-war London, two lives, and the question of what survives to bond us together.

A Winter’s Tale – We Love Shakespeare Ensemble

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Have you ever been wrongfully accused? This is the play for you.

Shakespeare does something that cannot be explained, only witnessed. An ending that has haunted audiences for four hundred years.

You won’t see it coming. You won’t recover quickly.