Maestro!

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Twelve improvisers enter. One Maestro leaves.

The audience scores every scene, knocking players out round by round until a single champion remains.

Last one standing takes the crown, and a Canadian five-dollar bill.

Destiny’s Manchild

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What goes together better than tarot and boy bands?

Six man-children and a tarot reader channel the mystical arts to show you exactly what the universe has in store.

Come for the laughs, leave with your destiny…

Lear’s Shadow

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“It’s Shakespeare, Jim, but not as we know it.”

At the end of the play, Lear dies. But what happens then?

Using only Shakespeare’s words, reordered, repurposed and oft repeated, Colin Hurley’s solo show is a mischievous reflection on the great domestic tragedy.

PLAYING THE SPACE YOU’RE IN – Acting Workshop with Colin Hurley

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Actors can learn to play a space very quickly, if we’re on ‘receive’ rather than ‘transmit’.

A playful, practical workshop with Colin Hurley: Circles of Concentration, proximity, eye-contact, walking the angles.

On our feet, not in our heads.

ART

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One white painting. Three old friends. Nobody’s speaking to each other.

Yasmina Reza’s sharp comedy about friendship, taste, and the things we can’t say out loud.

Back at Mike’s after selling out earlier this year.

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Three weeks before the election, a social media boss suspends the former Prime Minister’s account.

The office is in lockdown, the protesters are outside, and the people with power are on their way.

Who really decides what we see online, and who gets a free pass?

Funny Amsterdam Festival

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Five nights. The best of Amsterdam’s comedy scene, and beyond.

Stand-up, improv, and top international visiting acts across the whole festival.

14 to 18 October at Mike’s Badhuistheater.

Two Gentlemen of Verona – We Love Shakespeare Ensemble

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Two best friends travel to Milan and fall for the same woman.
Shakespeare’s first comedy: betrayal, mumbled apologies, and everyone somehow married by the end.
Built from scratch in 14 weeks by the We Love Shakespeare Ensemble.

The Woman in Black is Postponed

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· Ghost Story · Theatre · 30 & 31 October · Halloween · About the Play This Halloween, dare to experience one of the most terrifying ghost stories ever staged. By Stephen Mallatratt · Adapted from the novel by Susan Hill A lonely house. A mysterious woman dressed in black. A haunting that refuses to […]

SHOW 237: A STANLEY KUBRICK NIGHT

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An evening of comedy, music and oddness inspired by Stanley Kubrick.

Amsterdam’s finest comedians and musicians pay homage to The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove and more.

Open the pod bay doors, grab a Moloko Plus, and remember: all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.