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.
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)
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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District culture, performing arts, music, artistry
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65185 Wiesbaden
Postal address
65029 Wiesbaden
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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.
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Monday to Thursday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday closed.


