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12 Kisses Before Midnight

12 Kisses Before Midnight

Artists: Irina Koriazova and Sanne van Dijk

Duration: 60 min

Friday, 8 november

Start: 23:00

End: 00:00

Price: € 15

Language: EN

Location: Big Theatre

Tickets

About the show:

How many kisses do you need to give, and to receive — to feel loved? We once heard that to be happy you need to be kissed at least 12 times a day. And we heard it from a very reliable source: a character in a romantic comedy. What?!

The beauty of a kiss is that it’s not always sexual. What’s it like to kiss a friend, a dog, an (ex-)lover, a brother, a dead person? Some kisses are so different from each other, it feels strange to even call them by the same word, let alone count them together. Or, what about the kisses that really shouldn’t have happened? Do they count too? With a lot of humour, physical comedy, deeply personal stories, and throwing each other on the floor wrestling style (!), we are going to figure out how many kisses we actually need.

Bios:

Irina Koriazova and Sanne van Dijk met in 2022 when they were studying at the Mezrab Storytelling School. For 5 intense months, they developed their understanding of the craft alongside each other. They constantly trust the other to be the critical mirror of each other’s work. They believe in storytelling as an art form because it creates space for being incredibly vulnerable on stage: sharing your genuine feelings and intimate thoughts. In 2023, Sanne and Irina both created their first solo storytelling shows: VLOED and In Boxes respectively. Both shows were very personal, touching on subjects on femininity, innocence, establishing your borders and finding your voice. In 12 Kisses Before Midnight they dive deeper into these themes — together.

Credits:

Concept & performance: Irina Koriazova & Sanne van Dijk

Creative advice: Titus Tiel Groenestege, Cat Smits

Physical coach: Can Bora

Lighting design: Esther Love

Graphic design: Karl Giesriegl

Costumes: Logocomo  

Technical support: Nick Bos

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Alright: Solving the Problem of Living

Alright: Solving the Problem of Living

Artist: Nisha Coleman

Duration: 60 min

Friday, 8 november

Start: 21:30

End: 22:30

Price: € 15

Language: EN
Location: Studio

Tickets

About the show:

Montreal storyteller Nisha Coleman spins a yarn of nail-biting, heart-wrenching, darkly comedic adventures as she gets locked in the Madrid train station with a stray cat, is rescued by The Princess Bride’s Westley while busking in Halifax, and saves a young woman from a brush with death in Montreal. Through true-life stories, Coleman delves boldly into themes of mental illness and suicide, and attempts to “solve the problem of living” by learning to be Alright with being Alive. An intimate storytelling show about life’s formidable events and the pinpricks of light that tilt our gaze from the gutter to the stars.

Bios:

Nisha Coleman is a Montreal writer, storyteller and actor. Her work has been featured on the CBC, The Moth Radio Hour, Risk! and Confabulation among others. Her first solo show, Self-Exile, won the Best English Production at the 2016 Montreal Fringe and the Bill Bowers Award for Excellence at the Sarasolos Festival. Her French show Cornichon was featured regularly at the Théâtre La Comédie de Montréal in 2022 and 2023. Her most recent show Alright: Solving the Problem of Living was nominated for Best English Production and Outstanding English Text at the 2023 Montreal Fringe. She is a published author of the children’s book, Dear Humans, and the memoir, Busker: Stories from the Streets of Paris.


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in dutchGurbet – or how I became rich

Gurbet – or how I became rich

Artist: Soula Notos – SHOW IN DUTCH

Duration: 60 min
Start: 20:00
End: 21:00
Price: €15
Language: NL
Location: Studio

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About the show:

Een persoonlijk verhaal over migratie, warme handen, rijkdom, en het tussenland – de tussenruimte waar veel biculturelen zich in bevinden. Een ruimte waarin altijd een verlangen huist en waarin je altijd onderweg bent, maar het lijkt alsof je nooit arriveert. Maar… is het alleen maar kommer en kwel? Soula Notos neemt je mee op een intieme en kritische verkenning van gurbet (ontheemding) met humor, beweging en temperament. Misschien, heel misschien, is het tussenland zo slecht nog niet.

Bios:

Soula Notos is een theatermaker, comedian, actrice en storyteller. Haar solo Who are you when no one is looking? was te zien op festivals in Londen, Oslo, Praag, Amsterdam, Utrecht en op Oerol en Festival Boulevard. Ze is een vaste storyteller en host bij Mezrab. Ze organiseert en presenteert de tweemaandelijkse Soula’s Storytelling Nights in Theater Kikker in Utrecht. Zie voor meer info: www.soula.nl

Credits:

Concept, tekst & spel: Soula Notos
Regieadvies: Margo van de Linde

Met dank aan: Jolie Vreeburg, Theater Kikker, Victorine Plante, Tg. Aluin, Frank Irving.
Mede mogelijk gemaakt door een impulssubsidie van de Gemeente Utrecht.

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The Rainbow Cinema

The Rainbow Cinema

Artists: Ali Zijlstra and Vladlena Sandu

Duration: 90 minutes including Q&A

Friday, 8 november

Start: 19:30

End: 21:00

Price: €15

Language: EN
Location:  Big Theatre

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About the show:

The Rainbow Cinema is a theaterproject by Vladlena Sandu, based on her own experiences as an adolescent. We follow a 17-year-old heroine, called Vlada, after the Chechen war. The young woman is forced to take the path of prostitution. She falls into the hands of a criminal gang that sells her in Moscow. The young heroine encounters many different men and other girls like her along her journey. The strength of The Rainbow Cinema is that Vlada never becomes a victim, no matter how violent the anecdotes. She remains keenly observant through it all, always choosing the light over the dark at the most crucial moments. As a result, she eventually manages to escape. Sandu’s testimonies are marked by her eye for detail, disarming honesty and humor. They ultimately teach the audience that you can always become who you want to be, as long as you keep believing that.

Bios:

Vladlena Sandu was born in her father’s homeland of Crimea in 1982. After her parents divorced, she moved to her mother’s native city of Grozny in the Chechen Republic. She lived through six years of war as a child and teenager. In 1998 she emigrated to mainland Russia and received the status of an Internally Displaced Person. In 2011 she graduated from Rodchenko Art School. In 2016 she graduated from the VGIK, where she studied film directing on a BA course led by Alexei Uchitel. In 2019 she graduated from Boris Yukhananov’s Studio of Independent Direction. In March 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine she became a refugee for the second time. Today she lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Credits:

Text: Vladlena Sandu and Lena Tronina

Actresses: Ali Zijlstra and Vladlena Sandu

Translations: Dasha van Amsterdam and Purni Morell

Artistic support: Paulien Geerlings and Nina van Tongeren (de Toneelmakerij), 

Elike Roovers (Frascati)

Choreographic support: Polina Mirovskaya

Technical support: Barbara de Beer (Frascati)

Co-production: de Toneelmakerij, Frascati Producties.

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Little Tiny Wet Show (baptism)

Little Tiny Wet Show (baptism)

Artist: Lara Ricote

Duration: 60 min

Friday, 8 November
Start: 18:15
End: 19:15
Price: € 15
Language: EN
Location: Studio

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About the show:

You’re born, you’re in it, you’re dead! Symbolically! Kind of! Don’t think about it right now. Right now, stay present in this moment. Stay. Present. Purchase. A. Ticket. A sort of surreal, partially interactive, dark (like silly dark! not like edgelord dark…or is it) and maybe moving comedy show about what it’s even like to live and what it means to care for someone if you always leave them.
All of this 2022’s Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer Winner (yea!) and 2021 Funny Women Stage Award Winner (also!).

 

Previous praise for Lara from trusty sources:
“Her mile a minute set certainly lived up to the hype” ★★★★★ TIME OUT
“This razor-sharp goofball is an original gagster” ★★★★ THE GUARDIAN
“Lara is blessed with funny bones” ★★★★ THE SCOTSMAN

 

And if that doesn’t convince you, all of these companies have allowed her on their shows:
As Seen on:
Live At The Apollo (BBC)
Guessable (Comedy Central)
As Yet Untitled (Dave)
Live at the Moth Club (Dave)
Question Team (Dave)
Unforgivable (Dave)
World’s Most Dangerous Roads (Dave)
QI (BBC TWO)

Bio:


Lara Ricote is a Mexican-American-Venezuelan stand up comedian and writer! She won the Edinburgh Fringe Best Newcomer Award in 2022 if you can even believe that, and you can watch that debut show, GRL/LATNX/DEF on Youtube Right Now. She is based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and loves comedy so much and produces shows there and does comedy all over!!!

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TALK ‘The courage of the performer

TALK ‘The courage of the performer’

Speakers: Ari Teperberg and Phil Burgers

Duration: 60 min
Start: 17:00
End: 18:00
Price: 5,00
Language: EN
Location: Studio

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About the talk:

Performing can be a vulnerable act. Even more so if at a Storytelling Festival the performer decides not to use words – the primary tool of the storyteller. For this talk, we have invited Ari Teperberg who appears in the festival with the show in which he’s completely silent but types his stories (Untitled Document), and Philip Burgers who brings a clown show which tells a narrative only through tune, movement and sound, but never using a word (Befrdfgth).

 

What drives them to tell their stories? And what does this courage mean to them?

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WORKSHOP ‘The Courage to Move’

WORKSHOP ‘The Courage to Move’

Teacher: Ben Haggarty

 

Duration: 180 min

Friday, 8 november

Start: 13:30

End: 16:30

Price: € 50

Language: EN
Location:  Studio

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About the workshop:

How does the storyteller dare move to fill a space with a world of people and places? This is a workshop that helps storytellers start to identify and understand a grammar of movement, and which hopes to help them to build confidence to fill a space. It assumes that participants are familiar with the improvised paradigm of orality (i.e not reciting a script) and that they have a repertoire they can draw on.

Bio:

Having trained in mime, and in theatre direction at East 15, and apprenticed as an image-maker with Welfare State, Ben Haggarty is one of the UK’s most popular contemporary storytellers and a pioneer of the European storytelling renaissance. He is renowned for his passionate and physical performances. He tours widely, has been a guest artist in over one hundred International Storytelling Festivals in 32 countries and was for 10 years the official storyteller with Yo Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble. Ben is a much sought after teacher and director of storytellers, and is the founder and artistic director of the legendary Crick Crack Club. He is Honorary Professor of Storytelling at the Arts University of Berlin (UDK). His graphic novel series ‘MeZolith’ is published by Archaia. In 2014, he won the Fringe First for Spoken Word award for ‘Mr Sandmann, Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares’.

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Atalanta

Atalanta

Artist: Ben Haggarty

Duration: 85 min

Thursday 7 November

Start: 20:30

End: 21:55

Price: € 15

Language: EN
Location: Big Theatre

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About the show:

Greek myths unleashed in a Performance Storytelling by Ben Haggarty.

A girl raised by a bear, centaurs intent on rape, maniacal kings, troublesome boars, and bitterly feuding deities contrive the bloodiest race to ever stain the soil of Arcady.

Audaciously reshuffling epic Greek Mythology, Ben Haggarty brings to the stage a fierce tale of a remarkable virgin hunter and devotee of Artemis who sure as hell doesn’t want to have anything to do with men.

Here the veneers of classical civilisation are stripped away, and the truly awesome implications of the tales are made, sometimes unbearably, clear. Spend a moonlit night in the company of wild women, cocksure warriors and gods unleashed.

‘ a tour-de-force of storytelling‘ – Remote Goat

‘a fresh dose of magic that you need in your life’ Everything Theatre

‘bloody brilliant‘ – Time Out”

Suitable for adults (16+)
This performance may contain strong language, descriptions of or references to sex, death, attempted rape, death in childbirth, execution and mutilation contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype and metaphor.

Bios:

Having trained in mime, and in theatre direction at East 15, and apprenticed as an image-maker with Welfare State, Ben is one of the UK’s most popular contemporary storytellers and a pioneer of the European storytelling renaissance. He is renowned for his passionate and physical performances. He tours widely, has been a guest artist in over one hundred International Storytelling Festivals in 32 countries and was for 10 years the official storyteller with Yo Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble.  Ben is a much sought after teacher and director of storytellers, and is the founder and artistic director of the legendary Crick Crack Club. He is Honorary Professor of Storytelling at the Arts University of Berlin (UDK). His graphic novel series ‘MeZolith’ is published by Archaia. In 2014, he won the Fringe First for Spoken Word award for ‘Mr Sandmann, Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares’.

Credits:

Adaptation, Direction and Performance by Ben Haggarty

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The Chord

The Chord

Artists: Meysam Forooz, Raffi Feghali, Bence Huszar

Duration: 60 min

Thursday, 7 november

Start: 20:10

End: 21:10

Price: € 15

Language: EN

Location: Studio

Tickets

About the show:

When Meysam is a small boy, his sister dies in a house fire. At least, that’s what he’s told. But he has other memories stashed away which no one will explain: He remembers the anguished confession of a young guy in a prison cell. Talks of an international arrest and the hanging of four men in the village square.
Now that he’s an adult, and most of his family is gone, will those who remain tell the truth which has been hidden from him?
The Chord is an Iranian family tragedy and murder mystery. It tells the story of women’s resilience and the societal bonds which test it to the limit.


Bios:

Actor and storyteller Meysam Forooz is a graduate of the Mezrab Storytelling School. Many of his stories are based on his life in Iran, the country he fled in 2016. In 2021 he made his first solo with co-creator Sahand Sahebdivani, Four Weddings and an Iranian Funeral, about the lives of gay men in Iran. The daring piece played on Dutch stages as well as during Europride in Belgrade.


Sahand Sahebdivani is one of the founders of the Mezrab Storytelling School as well as an accomplished performer. He won the Amsterdam Fringe Gold award in 2017 and since 2018 he is the co-artistic director of the Amsterdam Storytelling Festival. Sahand also has an Iranian refugee background, which makes him the perfect partner for the work of Meysam.


Raffi Feghali is a theatermaker, peacebuilder, and trainer based between Amsterdam and Beirut.
He‘s directed more than 35 performances since 2009; most recently Standing on the Miraculous Field (2023, Netherlands) and Shou Zaki @ Beirut Holidays Festival (2024, Lebanon).
He has performed in more than 60 shows worldwide, under many international directors. He’s currently touring with Anatomy of a Home, his second autobiographical monodrama directed by Bryan Reynolds.
Raffi is one of the people who brought improv to Lebanon in 2009 and he has recently embarked on a journey taking him back to his storytelling roots. Halim Al-Hakawati, the solo improv show directed by Stephen Kearin he’s touring with now, resulted from this blend.


Bence Huszar is a cellist of Hungarian origin. Towards the end of his institutional studies Bence felt the need to dive further into his personal musical expression. He took classes with Ernst Reijseger who helped him develop his own musical language and style of playing. Bence has also been exploring electronics in combination with an electric cello. This opened the door to possibilities of new sonic colours. His musical versatility led him into a variety of groups and ensembles performing world music, experimental classical music and cross-over genres such as Lunapark, Trio Escapada, Ikarai and Arifa.


Credits:

Makers: Meysam Forooz / Sahand Sahebdivani
Performers: Meysam Forooz / Raffi Feghali
Music: Bence Huszar
Technician: Jugal Bhinde

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Narrative Animations

Narrative Animations

Artists: Rod Ben Zeev and Renske Ebbers

Thursday 7 November

Start: 19:00

End: 19:50

Price: € 15

Language: EN

Location: Studio

Tickets

About the shows:

What happens when you cross to radically different disciplines? Come to find out! The Amsterdam Storytelling Festival and the Kaboom Animation Festival requested two storytellers to see what kind of story they can tell using animation. Rod Ben Zeev and Renske Ebbers have gladly accepted the challenge and have dived into finding a new way to tell in front of the big screen!

Skip It / Rod Ben Zeev

Get ready to rediscover the magic in everyday moments with Rod’s one-of-a-kind performance! This isn’t just any show—it’s an adventure where you call the shots. Want to soak up every delightful detail, or skip straight to the good stuff? The choice is yours! And here’s the best part: Rod has a knack for bringing out the kid in everyone. By the end, you’ll feel like you’re seeing the world with the same wide-eyed wonder you had as a child. It’s playful, it’s interactive, and it’s guaranteed to leave you smiling.

Lionheart / Renske Ebbers

A girl on a beach in South Africa, retiring her Wonder Woman cape. A sister playing Mario Kart in a children’s hospital.

She was known as the brave one. The oldest one of her generation, the first girl in the family that could do anything she wanted. But what remains after the dragon is slain, and she is called home empty handed? When the only person that truly sees her as a hero, is the one she just can´t save? When bravery makes way for shame, will she dare talk about it?

A girl wants to punch a mountain. Or become a lion. Or learn how to fly. Anything to keep from sitting still, waiting.

In a personal story about the delusions of voluntourism and the magical bond between two siblings, Renske travels to the fantasy lands of childhood books, animations and video games. Because beyond a world of unfairness and misfortune, lies a place for us, if you are brave enough to play-pretend. Meet me there dearest, and I will race you on those white sanded shores.

Bios:

Rod Ben Zeev is a storyteller at heart, with a passion for weaving narratives that inspire change and spark creativity. Rod also produces “My True Story” at Mezrab, a space where authentic stories come to life, captivating audiences and connecting people through shared experiences.

Renske Ebbers was born 1991 in the “corner at the back” of the Netherlands. After moving in and out of several countries she now resides in Vienna, although the night train takes her home on a regular basis.

Renske is a creative producer and program curator for community-based performing arts, especially passionate about social issues and international collaboration. She recently worked with De Brakke Grond, Wunderbaum, Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot, Theater der Welt, ImpulsTanz Festival, Mixed-Abled-Dance Coproductions, and the Mezrab.

Since 2020 she has developed as a writer and storyteller, bringing personal stories with a pinch of nostalgia, a twist of self-mockery, and a musical note. This is her first performance for the Amsterdam Storytelling Festival.

Credits:

A collaboration with Kaboom Animation Festival

Concept and animation selection: Stijn Ebbers

Animations by: *

Stories and Performance Lionheart: Renske Ebbers

Stories and Performance Skip It: Rod Ben Zeev

 

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