Beginnings feb 2025

Diary of a movement - Hajar Fargan / Frascati Producties

A figure wanders through a space full of memories. Displaced from the inside, no name, no present, and no future. A figure with a desire to take root: but who still feels at home where they live now? And what big stories are still around for us to cling to?

A play with language and sound, in visuals and audio, of echoes, shadows, of silhouettes and contours. Of everything, except for something.

About Hajar Fargan 

Hajar Fargan (1997), after obtaining a bachelor’s degree in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam, also completed the Academy of Theatre and Dance at Amsterdam University of the Arts. She appeared in Branden, directed by Abdel Daoudi, and played the lead in Najib Amhali’s debut film Triq Salama. Her solo production Meet the Method was included in Amsterdam Fringe 2023. In her work, she creates a world of language that offers space for many voices on and meetings arising from themes including displacement, identity and ‘the’ truth. In this way, she strives to understand the big through the small.

Canceled program:

The Little Mermaid - Roos Bottinga / Frascati Producties

In The Little Mermaid, we meet a young woman who has transformed herself into a mermaid. And yes, she is aware just how radical a change that is. And yes, she has thought really hard about it. And yes, it was the right decision. She did it for herself. And a little bit for her partner. Or, actually... partner? Well, it’s complicated. 

Do you change for love, or does love change you? And how do you know whether this change is a good one? In an engaging monologue, Roos Bottinga – with the fin from a transplanted dolphin’s tail – probes what (un)healthy attachment means, as well as the secret need to be a beauty within the patriarchal picture. 

About Roos Bottinga 

Roos Bottinga (1998) graduated from ArtEZ School of Acting in Arnhem in 2022. She made her debut as a maker in 2023 with the monologue I Sang at my Mother’s Funeral (and Other Things to be Proud Of). Roos’ productions originate in language, before undergoing the transition to the performance space. In her texts, she attempts to interweave autobiographical observations with philosophical – and sometimes socially critical – observations. The outcomes can be poignant, even painful, but are always full of humour.