Now that tickets for this year’s festival, taking place on 28 August until 6 September, have been launched, we continue to introduce this year’s participants.
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Throughout June and July, we’ll be giving you an insight into all of the shows coming your way at this year’s festival. With artists from 28 countries performing shows across the city in a plethora of genres, we’re thrilled with this year’s lineup with you. Here’s Artist reveal #3 of 10!
bright silicone light
by Meeri Aro and Alexander Gallimore (Finland/Jamaica)
I will be whatever you want me to be.
bright silicone light explores digital fanaticism, violent influence, desensitisation and lost innocence. Through physical performance and multimedia elements, the piece takes you through minds and modes of intimacy being manipulated by algorithmic prescriptions.
Our minds, languages and bodily expressions are under significant change. Who are we really, underneath our contemporary selves?
Meeri Aro (Finland) and Alexander Gallimore (Jamaica) are multidisciplinary artists and performers brought together by expressionistic text and theatre of the absurd. Through experimentation of body and text, they create threads between the personal, the political and the universal. They are both graduates from the East 15 BA Contemporary Theatre Course.
Who will love this show?
Anyone who wants to experience experimental interdisciplinary art through expressionistic text and theatre of the absurd.
Thor’s A Dick – Viking Legends Not for Kids
by Stories Alive (England)
Join British storyteller Eden as he returns to Gothenburg to tells some of the darker tales from the old north. Today we see Thor and the Norse gods as heroes, but like a lot of the ancient gods they were full of faults and more human in their anger, jealousy, and spite.
Hear of murderous gods taking revenge by pouring snake venom into their enemies’ eyes. And parents taunting their offspring with the death of their loved ones. Back in dark ages these tales were for everyone, and scaring the life out of kids was not a problem. It’s as simple as a tale as old as time,
One man, a few stories all that’s missing is the fire we won’t be sat around.
From the creator who brought the award-winning Buckets Of Blood – Fairy Tales Not for Kids.
“Eden – a natural storyteller with a twinkle in his eye.”
Who will love this show?
Anyone who’s forgotten that Thor’s not just a superhero
Homo Sapiens tacklar klimathotet
by Martin Dahlberg (Sweden)
Homo Sapiens – från underdog på savannen till gud
Ett dramatiserat föredrag om mänsklighetens historia, för dig mellan 8-108 år!
Människan är djuret som tog makten över sitt och andras liv genom sociala färdigheter, fantasi och vetenskap. Följ med på dess farofyllda odyssé från jagad apa till dagens klimathot! Se hur vi nått enastående framgång genom att erkänna vår okunnighet, skaffa ny kunskap och få nya förmågor. Hur vi insett att framåtskridande är möjligt, och att det faktiskt går att lösa världens problem – även klimathotet.
Missa inte:
-workshop med Gud
-poängen med uppdiktade verkligheter
-hur vi utrotade hälften av jordens stora djur
-varför vetet fick oss att jobba hårdare för sämre mat
-den vetenskapliga revolutionen
-vitsen med pengar
Av och med: Martin Dahlberg, ingenjör och skådespelare
Lady Gentleman
by Luī Beča (Latvia)
An adorably awkward & heartfelt stand-up comedy hour for intellectuals, weirdos, softies, and sillies. Using her perspective as a young queer Latvian, Luī Beča delivers an intimate, playful hour full of surprising turns. Be prepared to experience vulnerability, absurdity, and unexpected punchlines that are born from moments of sincerity. The show tackles identity, queerness, belonging, the never-ending journey of trying to fix yourself using anything but therapy – Luī will hold your hand and take the audience on an interactive haunted house tour of her brain. You’ll laugh, cry, and want to become her best friend after!
Who will love this show?
Queer people who exist at the margins of mainstream gay online discourse, Eastern-European diaspora, softies and weirdos.
The Pink List
by Fabulett Productions (Switzerland/England)
1957, West Germany.
The battle against the Nazis ended twelve years ago – but for Karl, a gay concentration camp survivor, the war never truly ended. Still criminalised under Nazi law, his life is on trial.
The Pink List is a haunting one-person musical inspired by the untold stories of gay men persecuted in post-war Germany. It explores the long shadow of fascism, and how it continues to live on in laws, institutions, and everyday life.
Praised as “a 5-star must watch at the Fringe” (★★★★★ Scene Magazine), The Pink List comes to Gothenburg following acclaimed runs at the Edinburgh Fringe, in Australia as well as the USA.
This is the story of one man, one voice, one list they hoped we’d forget.
Who will love this show?
The Pink List is aimed at LGBTQ+ audiences and allies, as well as Fringe and independent theatre-goers who are drawn to intimate, politically engaged storytelling. It appeals to audiences interested in queer history, post-war European history, and social justice, particularly those curious about overlooked or suppressed narratives. The show also resonates with culturally curious festival audiences, students, and arts professionals who value innovative solo performance, music-driven storytelling, and work that invites reflection and conversation beyond the stage.
The things that make me angry
by Ida Andersson (Sweden)
This performance is for the woman who has learned to swallow her anger. The Things That Make Me Angry is a solo dance performance exploring anger as an honest and necessary emotion. It asks what becomes possible when anger is acknowledged, expressed, and released rather than suppressed, and how it can also function as protection.
Through text, dance improvisation, and video, the work investigates personal experiences of anger and emotional restraint. It explores how unexpressed emotions manifest in the body, and how movement can become a safe and constructive way to release and recognize anger physically.
Video projections shift the performance between live event and visual installation. Spoken reflections on anger are layered with everyday imagery, rain on streets, passing cars, and a full moon, creating a cinematic atmosphere that reflects an inner emotional landscape.
Over time, the performer moves from representing anger to embodying it. The performance becomes an act of honesty and release.
Who will love this show?
People who suppress their anger, have been made to feel small or unheard, particularly women and those who experience feminine rage.
