Ticket sales for the 12th edition of the Delft Fringe Festival will start on Monday 1 May. From Wednesday 31 May to Sunday 11 June 2023, Delft will be brimming with young talent. 29 Young makers in all kinds of disciplines: dance, theatre, cabaret, music and much more, present themselves at 28 special Delft locations. Locations you may never have been to before.
Cabaret artist Luuk Weggemans
How about Luuk Weggemans' musical cabaret performance, for example? Luuk is afraid of many things. But telling his audience shamelessly about all his failed dates does not scare him at all. Or admitting that he does not feel like a boy, but not yet a man either. Is he yet another comedian explaining to the audience how the world works? Or does he have to make jokes, otherwise he will go into a total panic?
- Luuk Weggemans plays during the festival on 1, 2, 3 and 8 June.
Tappin-It Collective: JAZZCAFE
After two years of pandemics, rules and restrictions, freedom is a welcome topic for the creators at Delft Fringe Festival. This year, for instance, Tappin-It Collective, the 2021 festival's audience award winner, is making a performance entirely based on the freedom of jazz music. In their musical theatre performance, they seek the boundary between the ultimate freedom in improvisation on the one hand and the rigid rules that can be attached to jazz music on the other. This metaphor fits well with the time when jazz became big and when rules were in dire need of breaking.
Following their success in 2021, the collective received an award from the Performing Arts Fund. For two years, Delft Fringe Festival now accompanies them organisationally and artistically, from the Delft Fringe Makerslab.
- Tappin-It Collective will play during the festival on 3, 8 and 9 June.
See the full programme online at delftfringefestival.nl.
Festival tours
If you cannot choose which performances to watch, book a festival tour with one of the cultural tour guides and be surprised. How about a tour with Delft cabaret artist Pieter Jouke or cultural vlogger Marco Dreijer? Or choose the Canal Tour where you sail through the Delft canals to three different performances. Take a look at the site and book soon, as places are limited.
Ticket sales
You can order tickets from 1 May at www.delftfringefestival.nl. During the festival itself, you can buy your tickets at the festival pavilion, the pink Delft Fringe Rabbit, in the middle of the Markt. And if you spontaneously decide that you feel like going to a performance, you can also buy a ticket at the venue itself. To allow everyone to enjoy the festival, the organisation has decided not to increase the ticket price. It will remain €7.50 per performance. And that's a good thing anyway.
About Delft Fringe Festival
Over the past 12.5 years, the Delft Fringe Festival has become one of the most important theatre festivals for young creators. The festival offers makers a place to perform and get feedback, from both audiences and professionals, including impresarios and scouts. There is an audience prize to be won, resulting in considerable media attention. The festival organisation offers extra guidance in the artistic career of the talents.
Chances are you will see today's creators, next year in the big theatres. Some resounding names that have once performed at the Delft Fringe Festival include: Vlamousse, Lisa Ostermann, Tappin-It Collective, Jasper Smit, Kirsten van Teijn, Matroesjka (Lisa Loeb), Kiki Schipper, Sanne Vleugels (The Prima Donna's), Dion van Rijt, LUDIQUE, Jasper van Kuijk and De Gestampte Meisjes.
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