Here we go again: EXPLOSIVE! is going into the 13th round and we’re looking forward to interesting applications! Please read carefully because some things have changed.

The EXPLOSIVE!FESTIVAL gives young theatre groups from all over the world a chance to present their theatre concepts on Bremen’s stages. We’re looking for new forms of expression and movement. For us, the experimental character of expression and the process behind each production have priority – no matter whether the production evolved under professional guidance or was independently developed by the young actors.
We’re looking for issues and forms of expression that determine our time and reality and we want to introduce them to a broad audience. Particularly those productions which develop strategies against social and ethnic exclusion as well as those transporting the existential questions of adolescence are of special interest. We’re determined to show the concentrated charge of young experimental theatre, opening the door to a playful exchange of new means of expression and new trends on stage. We aim to promote theatre as a place for new encounters and discussions