Fringe Festival 2025
CTC is excited to announce our Fringe Festival 2025 that will take place on May 15-18, 2025 at LiteraturHaus, Møllegade 7, 2200 Copenhagen N
Copenhagen Theatre Circle's 2025 Fringe Festival offers an exciting lineup of shows, representing a range of genres, and new creative works written and directed by local artists.
Are you interested in volunteering for the Fringe Festival Team? Contact Roger LeBlanc rogerwleblanc@gmail.com to learn more about volunteer opportunities.
DID YOU KNOW? That CTC's Fringe Festival is one of over 300 that are held globally each year? Fringe Festival roots began in 1947 in Edinburgh, when eight plays that were not chosen to perform at the International Festival showed up, and they performed anyway, in fringe venues. A movement was born.
SO, WHAT EXACTLY IS FRINGE? According to worldfringe.com:
"Fringe is a grassroots festival with the freedom to celebrate and exchange. It’s a Fringe of a Festival, or a Festival of Fringe Arts, made possible by the people who take part. Developed organically across the globe, [the festivals] are unique in style and form every time they open. A Fringe Festival exists to serve the participating artists and audiences through building awareness. They are constituted through innovation and creative expression. The Fringe ethos is, ‘If you want to do it you can… Fringes offer an alternative!’"
WHEN? CTC's Fringe Festival will take place from May 15th - 18th at LiteraturHaus, showcasing eight new one-act plays of around 20 minutes in length.
Venue
This year’s Festival will take place at Literaturhaus, a literary cultural center in the heart of Copenhagen.
Show Times
Thursday, May 15th 19:00 start time
Friday, May 16th 19:00 start time
Saturday, May 17th 19:00 start time
Sunday, May 18th 14:00 start time
Run time: 2.5 hours with a 20 minute intermission
This Year’s Lineup
Group One - Thursday & Saturday night
“Going Down” by Eoin O'Sullivan and Sarah McGillion
After a lavish dinner party, six people get trapped in an elevator. The lights flicker, the bodies fall — luckily one of them is a detective.
Cast:
Adrian Mackinder
Anant Visaria
Ben Thompson
Halfdan Beck
Rudy Hidding
Sarah Mcgillion
"What’s the craic, Connor?" written by Hedda Marie Nike Sjöström & directed by Ross Barnwell
Two neighbors, both different in personality and age - what can blossom from a broken promise?
Cast:
Hedda Marie Nike Sjöström
Oisin Robbins
“The Meeting” by Christof Gleie
What would you do if you got the chance to confront your bully from childhood? Two men must navigate an emotional encounter when the past comes knocking at the door.
Cast:
Jakob Rasmussen
Olivier Blanc
“Lover Boy” by Stinne Brøchner- Nielsen and Maria Hartikainen
"Lover Boy" is a bedazzling queer burlesque play; a good old fashioned love story told through the timeless music of Queen. Follow Lover Boy, a newly out trans man, on a journey through love, heartbreak and true friendship.
Cast:
Rebecca Nachman
Liubov Aleksandrova
Zeynep (Zee) Coskun
Lilli Adler
Vala Diona
Bellamy the Gentlebutch
Angel Nina
Group Two - Friday night & Sunday afternoon
“We Need to Talk” by Gulcin Cicek Rezaei Tabar
A man joins a silent retreat, expecting peace—only to be trapped with a relentless talker, an egocentric influencer, and his own overactive mind. As the days pass, he learns true transformation comes not from silence, but from the voices that refuse to be ignored.
Cast:
Liyang Han
Thor Petersen
Rebecca Nachman
Maria Arsiwala
László Rafael
“Food for Thought” by Edit Nielsen and directed by Micah Epstein and Edit Nielsen
Three generations of women meet for a festive meal to determine if one of them should accompany the other two into the great beyond.
Cast:
Joan M. Bentsen
Lakmini Besbroda
Karolina Szeczykowska
Roger LeBlanc
“Electric Words” by Laura Holme-Hoske and directed by Laura Holme-Hoske and Danielle Judson
Three people met at a bar to keep a promise made back when rock, punk and purple bananas danced all night long.
Cast:
Charlotte Duus
Carsten Aagaard
Kathryn Dorgan
Thea Haugaard
“Emergent Macro Disruptor” by Martin Daniel Baré and directed by Oisin Robbins
As a city-ravaging monster nears their office building, three colleagues and their manager struggle to stay on task with corporate duties - and the coffee machine is broken again.
Cast:
Ugne Sabaliauskaite
Tomas Germer
Tama Schreurs
Chris Throup
Interested in volunteering?
Are you interested in volunteering for the Fringe Festival Team? Contact Roger LeBlanc rogerwleblanc@gmail.com to learn more about volunteer opportunities.