Festival d'Anjou

What Festival d'Anjou does

Festival d'Anjou is a regional theater festival operated by EPCC Anjou Théâtre, a French public cultural cooperation establishment (établissement public de coopération culturelle) headquartered in Angers, Maine-et-Loire. Founded in 1950, it runs annually from June to July, presenting more than 20 theatrical productions across multiple venues in the Pays de la Loire region. The festival serves a mixed audience: general ticketed patrons at price points from €12 to €48, corporate clients hosting private events, and emerging artists who participate in workshops and readings. Programming spans contemporary French theater, classic adaptations, family-oriented productions, concerts, and curated museum visits.

The festival's core offering is its curated annual program of theatrical productions and ancillary cultural events, distributed across partner venues throughout Angers and the surrounding region. Its underlying technology footprint is minimal: a standard website and primary ticketing are operated through a partnership with Mapado, a third-party event platform, and secondary-market ticket resale is enabled through Ticketswap. The organization employs approximately 9 people, reflecting a lean operational model that is typical of seasonal French cultural festivals.

Revenue is generated through four streams: ticketed admissions (the primary commercial engine), corporate event hire, patronage and sponsorship, and on-site catering. As a public EPCC, the entity also benefits from public subsidies that supplement earned revenue. Accessibility programming — including French Sign Language (LSF) workshops and tactile visits delivered in partnership with Fondation Visio — extends the addressable audience but is positioned as a social-mission activity rather than a profit center.

Name

Festival d'Anjou

Legal name

EPCC Anjou Théâtre

Website

https://festivaldanjou.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Festival d'Anjou is an annual theater festival in Angers, France, operated by EPCC Anjou Théâtre. It presents 20+ productions from June to July across multiple regional venues, serving general audiences, corporate clients, and emerging artists through ticketed performances and accessibility programs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Performing Arts Festival

NAICS

Theater Companies and Dinner Theaters (71111), Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events with Facilities (711310)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Community Theatre & Storytelling Festivals (MPAGAEAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Arts & Culture Community Festivals (Multidisciplinary Arts Weeks) (MPAGAEAG), Cultural & Community Festivals (Ticketed) (THAJAFAI)

Keywords

• Theater festival
• Live theatrical performances
• Performing arts programming
• Cultural event management
• Stage productions

Headquarters

HQ city

Angers

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Ticket sales: The primary revenue stream for Festival d'Anjou comes from ticket sales across 20+ theatrical performances and events. Tickets are sold through the festival's Mapado-powered online ticketing platform and at physical box offices. Pricing ranges from €12 to €48 per performance, with additional premium pricing for certain events. The festival also sells a 'Billet solidaire' (solidarity ticket) to support access initiatives.
2. Corporate evenings and private events: The festival offers corporate evening packages (soirées entreprises) and private event hosting for businesses and organizations, generating additional revenue through venue hire and hospitality services.
3. Mécénat and sponsorship (patronage): Individual patronage (mécénat particulier) and corporate sponsorship (parrainage) programs where individuals and businesses support the festival financially, with associated recognition benefits.
4. Espace saveurs (catering): On-site food and beverage services through the 'Espace saveurs' offering, providing catering alongside evening events.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Festival d'Anjou is an annual outdoor and indoor theater festival held in June-July in Angers and surrounding municipalities (Saumur, Le Plessis-Macé), presenting 20+ theatrical performances featuring established French artists and emerging talent. The festival complements its core programming with educational workshops (French Sign Language initiation), family activities, backstage heritage tours at Château du Plessis-Macé, themed museum visits at Musée des Beaux-Arts, a Concours des compagnies competition for emerging companies, corporate/private evening packages (soirées entreprises), and on-site catering (Espace saveurs).

Product overview

Festival d'Anjou is an annual theater festival held in Angers, France, offering a diverse program of theatrical performances, comedy shows, and musical performances from June to July. The festival presents over 20 distinct productions annually, featuring established and emerging French theater artists. The program includes main stage performances at venues like Château du Plessis-Macé, Grand-Théâtre d'Angers, Le Dôme, and Le Quai, as well as educational activities including family workshops, French Sign Language courses, and backstage tours. The festival operates primarily as an event organizer with ticketing services through its Mapado partnership and secondary market resale through Ticketswap.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Annual Festival d'Anjou theatrical program The annual theatrical festival program featuring 20+ distinct productions spanning drama, comedy, and music across venues in Angers, Saumur, and Le Plessis-Macé. Aimed at general-public theater enthusiasts in the Pays de la Loire region, families, and cultural tourists.
• Corporate evening packages (Soirées entreprises) Premium corporate hospitality packages for businesses and organizations, including venue hire, catering (Espace saveurs), and exclusive performances at festival venues. Targeted at HR, communications, and events managers seeking distinctive entertainment experiences for staff and clients.
• Le festival en famille (family program) Family-oriented theatrical workshops and guided visits designed for children and parents to enjoy together during the festival, including age-tagged productions such as 'Une histoire de France' (ages 6+) and 'Cowboy ou indien?' (ages 10+).
• Stage découverte de la LSF (French Sign Language workshop) An initiation workshop into French Sign Language (LSF) communication and deaf culture, priced at €45 for the workshop stage, with optional show add-on tickets (€19 or €33 depending on participant profile).
• L'envers du décor (backstage heritage tours) Special backstage visits and historical tours at Château du Plessis-Macé, connecting festival performances to the heritage site.
• Visite · L'amour, vraiment? (museum visit) A guided museum visit at Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers exploring representations of desire, passionate love, and violence in art, offered as an echo to theatrical performances. Priced at €7 individual, €3.50 student, €6/person for groups of 10+.
• Espace saveurs (on-site catering) On-site food and beverage catering offered alongside evening events at festival venues, including corporate evening packages.
• Concours des compagnies (company competition) A competition for emerging theater companies offering showcase performances, jury feedback, and audience exposure. Featured productions include 'intro' by Dylan Roncin. Tickets priced €12-€20.
• Billet solidaire (solidarity ticket) A solidarity ticket option allowing patrons to contribute additional payment to support access initiatives and inclusion programs for audiences facing financial or accessibility barriers.
• Fabrice Luchini lit Victor Hugo A theatrical reading performance where Fabrice Luchini performs texts and poems by Victor Hugo, including Booz endormi and poems about the death of his daughter Léopoldine.
• Le Banquet de la Sainte-Cécile A theatrical portrait by Jean-Pierre Bodin celebrating the municipal harmony band in a small French town from the late 1960s. Has been performed over 1,000 times.
• Mon jour de chance A comedy by Patrick Haudecœur and Gérald Sibleyras about Sébastien who reminisces about childhood decisions made by dice rolls, directed by José Paul.
• Concert très chic A decadent musical spectacle by Michel Fau featuring a diva and tenor performing operatic repertoire with comic elements.
• Lack A contemporary play by Guillaume Poix and Lorraine de Sagazan exploring love in today's era, created with eight emerging actors selected from approximately 1,800 applications through the Talents Adami Théâtre program.
• Ça, c'est l'amour A mother-daughter drama about domestic violence written by Jean Robert-Charrier for Josiane Balasko and Marilou Berry, directed by Julie-Anne Roth.

Named customers2 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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Integration2 records

Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Théâtre du Champ de Bataille d'AngersminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 June 2026Listed as a supporting institution for 'intro' by Dylan Roncin alongside Le Quai CDN and Wheat – épicentre culturel d'Angers.
• Wheat – épicentre culturel d'AngersminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 June 2026Listed as a supporting institution for 'intro' by Dylan Roncin.
• Le Quai CDN – Centre Dramatique National d'AngerscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2026Le Quai CDN is a key venue partner for Festival d'Anjou, hosting performances in its T400 and T900 halls. The festival also benefits from Le Quai's support for productions such as 'intro' by Dylan Roncin, which lists Le Quai CDN as a supporting institution. Le Quai is a major cultural institution in Angers.
• TicketswapcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorOfficial secondary ticketing partner of Festival d'Anjou. Provides secure ticket resale for spectators who can no longer attend, ensuring tickets reach other buyers without illegal scalping.
• MapadocoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPrimary online ticketing platform for Festival d'Anjou. All ticket sales, reservations, and waitlist registrations for sold-out shows are managed through Mapado.
• Théâtre de la Porte Saint-MartincoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin (Paris) is the production venue for 'Coucou!' by Moguiz and the co-producer of the production. It represents a key institutional partner for bringing Paris-based productions to the festival.
• Théâtre FontaineminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThéâtre Fontaine in Paris is referenced as being 'en accord' (in agreement) with the production of 'Mon jour de chance', indicating a co-production or venue partnership relationship.
• Le Royal VelourscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLe Royal Velours is the primary production company for 'L'Abolition des privilèges', a co-production involving multiple cultural institutions in northern France.
• Musées d'AngersminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFestival d'Anjou collaborates with the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers for themed cultural visits such as 'L'amour, vraiment?' which takes place at the museum and is offered as an echo to theatrical performances.
• Médiathèque de SaumurminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner for the 'Le festival en famille' family program, providing educational workshops and activities in conjunction with theatrical performances.
• Centre International de Créations Théâtrales / Théâtre des Bouffes du NordcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCICT – Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord is the primary production institution for 'Seule comme Maria' (2026 reprise), with the 2025 creation also involving Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, indicating a deep institutional partnership.
• Le Quai CDN – Centre Dramatique National d'AngerscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-producer of multiple festival productions including 'Au Bon Pasteur, Peines Mineures (2)'. Le Quai CDN provides production and technical support for festival events.
• Groupe DéjàcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGroupe Déjà is the collective behind 'Cowboy ou indien?', with the company receiving state convention status (DRAC Pays de la Loire), municipal (Ville du Mans), and departmental (Sarthe) support, indicating a major institutional theater company partnership.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Montpellier Danse: Annual international dance and contemporary performing arts festival in Montpellier running each summer. Comparable to Festival d'Anjou as a ticketed, multi-venue, regionally anchored French performing arts festival with a curated, multi-show summer program — though with a dance-specific focus.
• Festival Off d'Avignon: The independent/performing arts fringe festival running in parallel to Festival d'Avignon each July. Directly comparable to Festival d'Anjou in that it presents a high-volume, multi-company program of theater productions across many venues with ticket-based access, and similarly mixes established and emerging companies.
• Festival de Marseille: Annual multidisciplinary performing arts festival in Marseille presenting dance, theater, and visual performance each summer. Comparable to Festival d'Anjou in operating model — ticketed, multi-venue, summer, curated program — with similar scale and public-institutional backing.
• Théâtre du Peuple de Bussang: Historic theater venue and seasonal programming operation in Bussang (Vosges), founded in 1895, presenting a summer repertory season of theatrical productions. Comparable to Festival d'Anjou as a regional French summer theater institution with multi-week programming, heritage setting, and public/cultural-institution governance.
• Nuits de Fourvière: Annual summer performing arts festival in Lyon presenting theater, music, dance, and circus at the historic Roman theatres of Fourvière. Closely mirrors Festival d'Anjou's mix of heritage venue programming, star-driven lineup, and summer ticketed format, though typically with a wider genre mix.
• Festival de La Chaise-Dieu: Annual music and performing arts festival held each August-September in the abbey of La Chaise-Dieu in Auvergne. Directly comparable to Festival d'Anjou as a heritage-venue, ticketed, regional French performing arts festival with similar scale, public-institutional backing, and curated multi-show programming model.
• Festival d'Aix-en-Provence: Prestigious summer opera and performing arts festival in Aix-en-Provence, presenting a curated program across heritage venues in July. Comparable to Festival d'Anjou as a heritage-venue-anchored, ticketed summer arts festival operating under public-institutional governance, though with a stronger opera/musical focus.
• Festival d'Avignon: France's flagship annual theater festival held in July in Avignon, presenting a curated program of major French and international theatrical productions across heritage venues. Directly comparable to Festival d'Anjou as a ticketed, multi-venue performing arts festival operating on a similar annual-summer model, but at significantly larger scale and national/international profile.

Broad incumbents

• Festival des Vieilles Charrues: One of France's largest annual summer music festivals, held in Carhaix (Brittany), presenting a multi-day outdoor music program. Comparable to Festival d'Anjou as a major French regional summer festival anchored in a non-Paris territory with ticketed programming, partnership model, and public-sector support — though at significantly larger scale and music focus.

Regional players

• Festival Interceltique de Lorient: Major annual Celtic culture and music festival held each August in Lorient, Brittany, presenting music, dance, and cultural programming across multiple venues. Comparable to Festival d'Anjou as a large-scale, ticketed, multi-venue French summer cultural festival with regional anchor and international programming reach.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Profiles2 records

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