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Strong Plays - International Theater Festival for Young Audiences Rhine-Main

In 2026, the Department of Culture and the Department of Social Work are once again inviting exciting plays for children and young people to Wiesbaden as part of Starke Stücke.

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Strong plays in Wiesbaden - International Theater Festival for Young Audiences Rhine-Main

For 32 years, the Rhine-Main International Theater Festival for Young Audiences "Starke Stücke" has been creating spaces for experience, networking, amazement, and change. From February 20 to March 3, 2026, 23 national and international productions from eleven countries can be experienced throughout the Rhine-Main region. 

The Cultural Office has invited two productions that showcase the exciting diversity and quality of international children's and youth theater. 

On the bench

Saturday, February 28, 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Georg-Buch-Haus Community Center
Teater Refleksion Petit, Aarhus (Denmark)

Benches can be found in parks, gardens or subway stations. This is where we rest, enjoy nature or wait until the next stop. And sometimes we meet interesting people on a bench who wouldn't otherwise meet: We meet an old lady who just wants her peace and quiet and who tries to keep life at a distance from a bench: the boy, the dog, the newspaper reader, the bird. Will that work? Hopefully not!

In a calm and sensitive puppet show, we are lovingly reminded that we are not all alone.

  • Age: Six years and older
  • Language: no spoken text
  • Duration: 40 minutes
  • Relaxed performance
  • Content warning: none
  • Other sensory stimuli: puppet/puppet theater, complete blackout
  • Supported by: Danish Arts Foundation, The Municipality of Aarhus

Scoooootch

Tuesday, February 24, 10 a.m.
Stadtteilzentrum Schelmengraben, Wiesbaden
Les Nouveaux Ballets du Nord-Pas de Calais, Lille (France)

A young woman is lying on a stage in the foreground, in front of her a tower made of rolls of adhesive tape, on which a broomstick is lying crosswise. A small broom is attached to the side of the broomstick. The woman blows against it.
A scene from "Scoooootch"

What you can do with colored adhesive tape! Crumpling, tearing, sticking and peeling off again. All this and much more happens on the round white stage; the performers' own bodies also become a surface for sticking and are given funny new accents. Using small and large brooms, they constantly build new spaces and, together with the audience, playfully negotiate the boundaries between the individual and the other and their surroundings.


  • Age: Two years and older
  • Language: No spoken text. There is only one word: adhesive tape, which is translated into German.
  • Duration: 35 minutes
  • Relaxed performance
  • Content warning: Smoke and electronically amplified music
  • Other sensory stimuli: colored lights, loud noises (only to a certain extent, as it is a play for young children)
  • Audience should remove their shoes before the start
  • The performance is offered for daycare groups as a group.

Please note: The performance is already fully booked. We are currently only accepting registrations via a waiting list.

Contact: kulturelle-teilhabewiesbadende

 

In co-production with: La Minoterie: conventional scene for youth of Dijon, le Grand Bleu: conventional scene for youth of Lille, Culture Commune National Stage, Créa Festival Momix, Nova Villa at Reims, Le Théâtre du Nord: Dramatic National Center of Lille, Le Cube: international center for youth, of Montréal.

Supported by: Regional Council of Hauts-de-France, Department of Culture, Pas-de-Calais Council, ADAMI.

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Address

Schillerplatz 1-2
65185 Wiesbaden

Postal address

P.O. Box 3920
65029 Wiesbaden

Notes on public transport

Public transport: Bus stop Dern'sches Gelände, bus lines 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 262, 45, 46, 47, 48, E, N2, N4, N5, N9, N10, N11, N12, X26.

Opening hours

Monday to Thursday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday closed.

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