Fringe: In the Way Depths

Ratri Notosudirdjo

Sat 5 Sep ’26 and Sun 6 Sep ’26

Four roommates and their petty excuses for not doing the dishes opens a haunted portal.

Sat 5 Sep ’26

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Sun 6 Sep ’26

Sat 5 Sep ’26

17:30

Frascati, Amsterdam

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Sun 6 Sep ’26

19:30

Frascati, Amsterdam

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Four roommates. A table. A pile of dirty dishes that won’t be getting clean anytime soon.

What starts as petty arguments - Whose turn? Why me? I'll do it later! - spirals into a summoning. As tensions rise in the roommate’s apartment, a haunted portal opens inside their home but before anyone notices, two exhausted shadow monsters are dragged out of retirement to retell the stories of each roommate's gut wrenching, tear dripping, nose leaking excuse.

Through shadow puppetry, live soundscapes, and comedy, every bad reason is transformed into its own mythology. Strained friendships, work schedules, childhood memories, colonial legacies, precarious housing, expensive lifestyles: all crash together on stage.

In the Way Depths transforms a domestic dispute into a surreal shadow world where avoidance becomes monstrous, ridiculous, and painfully familiar. Humour and haunting share the same breath because sometimes the most honest thing you can do is watch your excuses turn into ghosts.

Duration: 30 mins.
Language: English

Part of

Amsterdam Fringe Festival 2026

About Ratri Notosudirdjo

Ratri Notosudirdjo is a performance artist and researcher based in Rotterdam. Her work searches for storytelling methods that can dislodge linear trajectories of history. She began with a question: what happens when avoidance becomes the basis of social life? The answer arrived as a ghost realm, two retired shadow monsters, and a chorus of excuses that refuses to stay personal.

What started as one artist's vision became a stage that could only be held collectively. Fagner Lima, a Brazilian artist and game-designer, co-directs and co-inhabits the roommates' spiral. Magdalena Petrova, a multimedia and performance artist shaped by animistic Bulgarian heritage and post-communist shadows, co-produces and performs the slow unweaving of friendship into myth. Jip van der Hek, a multidisciplinary artist working in the social domain, co-produces and performs within the unraveling. Saina Salarian, an Iranian writer and cultural worker, co-produces and performs, stewarding chaos. Leo Hugendubel, a photographer, interdisciplinary artist and singer, co-produces and performs at the edge of the table's tension.

Six collaborators and one dirty sink, together they build a liminal home. What emerges is a shadow realm, where every excuse is borrowed, but no one is doing the dishes alone.