About the festival

Wine and theatre have been inextricably linked for thousands of years. Even at the Dionysia, lavish festivals in honour of the wine god Dionysus, plays were indispensable. Theatre groups competed for the favour of the audience, passed on myths and legends and held up a mirror to the rulers. If they were successful, they travelled the country in search of new audiences. Their stages were not large theatres, but village and market squares. Without the festivals of the god of wine and the travelling theatres, which have been travelling through Europe for over 2500 years, cultural exchange across borders would hardly have been possible and our culture today would be much poorer.

Wine and theatre have also gone hand in hand in Radebeul since 1996. For 27 years now, the International Travelling Theatre Festival has enriched the autumn and wine festival with impressive productions of artistry or pantomime, spoken or dance theatre, clowning, puppetry and much more. Streets, meadows and courtyards are transformed into stages and the audience is directly involved in the play. People from a wide variety of nations understand each other without words, laugh and marvel together and leave their everyday lives behind for three unique days.

This is what joie de vivre tastes like in Radebeul - enjoy a small but delicious selection of >> impressions!

The festival has a special theme every year.
For 2024 it is "Mimes, Masks, Muses' Kisses".
>> to the motto 2024

The travelling theatre prize

The choice is yours!

Every year, the audience awards the coveted Travelling Theatre Prize.

This travelling trophy - created by the Radebeul artist Bärbel Voigt - is also the invitation for the following year.

And this is how it works:

At selected performances, ballot papers are distributed on which the audience can tick how many stars they give our stars.

6 stars = BRAVO! Encore!
5 stars = fantastic
4 stars = Worthwhile
3 stars = Moderate
2 stars = Well, it could be worse
1 star = Boo!

The performance with the best rating wins. The trophy can only be awarded once to the same theatre artists. Previous winners are excluded from the evaluation.

Winner of the Audience Award of the XXVI International Travelling Theatre Festival in 2023 was:

Sara Twister (IND) with her show "Ready. Aim. Fire!"

She was born in India and grew up on four continents - but it's hard to say where she comes from. One thing is certain - her home is where her bow is.

The entertaining and, above all, super agile archer wowed everyone with her lively manner and her daring performance "Ready. Aim. Fire!". Everyone takes their breath away when she aims at the target above the head of a "volunteer", holding the bow with her feet! Volunteers first!

www.saratwister.com