Tampere Theatre Festival
With the population over 210 000, The City of Tampere is one of Finland’s largest urban centres located on a narrow strip between two big lakes. Tampere is a luminous cultural city, a vibrant town full of theatre. Since 1968, the Tampere Theatre Festival has been one of the leading attractions of the city.
The Tampere Theatre Festival is one of Europe’s most important festivals of professional theatre serving as a display window for the finest Finnish and international productions. During the first week of August it offers a compact, yet high quality package of 21st century drama, modernised classics, dance theatre, contemporary circus and street theatre.
Focusing on Festival Customers
The high-class festival offers new and unique experiences to its audience. The event nourishes the spirit in the middle of everyday life in an unique way.
90 000 Visitors – 350 Events
The festival consists of five programme entities: Main Programme, Programme Tent, Restaurant Festival Encorebaana, Off Tampere and Great Nocturnal Happening. Audience figures rise up to ca. 90 000 yearly.
Main Programme forms the artistic framework for the festival. It includes the season’s most interesting productions from around Finland and celebrated and esteemed guest performances from abroad. Main Programme is selected by an Artistic Team.
Facts and Figures
90 000 attenders
26 000 theatregoers
350-400 performances and other shows, presentations, occasions etc; 250 of them free of charge
99 % of spectators recommend the festival to their friends
1 % dislike theatre
