PASSAGE – festival for street theatre

PASSAGE is a festival for street theatre, which takes place every summer end July / beginning of August. The festival is a collaboration between Helsingoer Theatre in Denmark and Dunker’s culture centre in Helsingborg in Sweden. The festival takes place in Helsingoer, Denmark and Helsingborg, Sweden simultaneously, and has spread out to other small towns around Helsingoer and Helsingborg, and cover a large area. PASSAGE festival presents 45-50 national and international street theatre groups, in particular from France and Spain, which all perform in the streets, in tents, in the countryside, seaside or inside particular venues. However, never at the traditional theatre stages. The festival has a close collaboration with the two cities, and involves the city centres, as well as the residential areas in the periphery, the local institutions, and organizes different workshops for kids and young people. In that way, the festival transform the cities into one large festival site, where performances pop up unexpectedly. In 2016, the festival takes place from 1-6 August.