A theatre festival in the heart of the Amsterdamse Bos
Entrance tickets for Bosfest 2026 are now on sale!
The third edition of Bosfest will take place from August 11 to 22, 2026. For two weeks, from Tuesday through Saturday evening.
For ten evenings, Bosfest settles deep in the Amsterdamse Bos. Intimate theatre, hidden among roots and leaves. Here, it challenges, explores, and sharpens everything. Theatre in the broadest sense of the word—raw, intimate, musical, physical, and sometimes uncomfortably close.
Bosfest celebrates its third edition in 2026. You’re allowed to know—but please don’t spread the word. The number of tickets is limited, and we’d like to keep it that way, because Bosfest should remain a hidden gem. No large-scale festival in a manicured park, no red carpet with champagne. This is theatre for those willing to make an effort. Cycle out of the city in search of something you won’t find anywhere else. With the forest not as a backdrop, but as the main character.
You start and end at the Festival Heart of the Bostheater: a place with a spacious terrace, bar, campfire, and food prepared with care. Everything comes together here—before you return to the inhabited world.
Bosfest is made possible in part by Performing Arts Fund NL, Stichting Boslab, the Municipality of Amsterdam, the Municipality of Amstelveen, and Het Amsterdamse Bostheater. Read more about Stichting Boslab here.
Bosfest performances 2026
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EENIEDEREEN
Sometimes you are lost, lost in general, lost on the way, lost within yourself. But after being lost comes finding, just like what comes after the rain. Let yourself be moved by the gaze of a stranger, a moment of recognition, and the realization that you truly see one another.
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Spiral
Being yourself, losing yourself, finding yourself again. In Spiral, a group of dancers takes the audience on a collective journey beyond the everyday.
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De Laatste Minuten
Two best friends haven’t seen each other for years. When they reunite, they are forced to confront their past.
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Poëzie in het Bos
Poetry Circle
On the uneven forest floor, against the backdrop of a twilight lake, a literary live show unfolds in which we explore our desire for temporary disappearance through poetry, music, and conversation.
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Requiem
Collectief Ludvik
Requiem is a musical exploration that reaches beyond our everyday fears. Because do our small, personal anxieties really hold up against the great existential threats of our time?
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NOODKEET
De Leedbewakers
NOODKEET is a hilarious and tender site-specific performance about three doomsday preppers adrift in a chaotic world.
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UITKIJKERS
Four acrobats bring the wildest dreams of the future to life on a seven-metre-high climbing structure. An invitation to look ahead — and to dare to dream together.
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Het is niet altijd kermis
They’re sexy, they have each other as best friends, and they no longer miss a single thing or person in their lives. There’s a future ahead. There’s room to grow. And there’s one irresistibly horny performance waiting for you.
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Maanlicht in Etten-Leur
What is romance in this country anymore? Poet and writer Joost Oomen shows that there have been countless Dutch-language poets who truly managed to bend our language into something radiant and alive.
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YOU SHOULD GET RAPED
A monologue about sexual violence and street harassment, in which a woman refuses the role of victim and instead claims the position of perpetrator.
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Paarden Mogen Niet Dood
Gaja Caruso
All pets eventually die. We prefer not to think about it until the moment arrives. Yet the loss of “man’s best friend” can reveal a great deal about our need for connection, comfort, and control.
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DIXI.
ABSOLUUT.
ABSOLUUT takes you to the most dreaded place at any festival: the DIXI! A musical, energetic, and visually striking performance about friendship, escaping, and losing your way.
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Gelukszoekers
In a search for hope, Femi van Elshuis takes you on a journey to Suriname. In this poetic and playful solo performance, she sets out in search of herself.
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“Bosfest offers theatre by emerging makers in a pleasant setting: the forest. The forms are highly diverse, ranging from immersive theatre and a pop parody to a traditional peep box.”
— NRC
“The forest as a backdrop remains sublime… Bosfest in the Amsterdamse Bos is an excellent festival for summer evenings.”
— Het Parool
“Small-scale theatre at the atmospheric Bosfest. No fewer than ten different productions can be seen at Bosfest, which supports young theatre makers, and the prices are very audience-friendly.”
— Scènes