The Original

Name: The Original - Sîpan Sezgin Tekin
Start: 2025-10-22T21:00:00+02:00
Location: Frascati, Amsterdam

Sîpan Sezgin Tekin

Tue 21 Oct ’25 and Wed 22 Oct ’25

A performance about language that shapes, distorts, and reveals.

Tue 21 Oct ’25

and

Wed 22 Oct ’25

Tue 21 Oct ’25

21:00

Try-out

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 2

Tickets

Wed 22 Oct ’25

21:00

Premiere

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 2

Tickets

In The Original Sîpan focuses on the use of language in interactions with people labeled as 'not mentally well'. In his third major solo performance he explores how language is deconstructed and minimized in communication with psychiatric patients, and how normative language use varies across cultures.

For The Original, Sîpan collaborates with a friend from his hometown Amed, in Turkish Kurdistan, who granted him access to interviews with patients at a psychiatric clinic. These interviews form the foundation of a new theatre script. A storytelling performance in which narratives come to life not only through language, but also through the body and video imagery.

Credits

performance & concept Sîpan Sezgin Tekin artistic guidance Farnoosh Farnia & Chris Keulemans final direction Mesut Arslan produced by Mezrab | House of Creation supported by Toneelschuur Producties

About Sîpan Sezgin Tekin

Sîpan Sezgin Tekin is an actor, performer, theater maker, and storyteller. As an artist and nomad, Sîpan's quest for meaning takes shape through a rich blend of performance, music, language, sound, light, and documentary, rooted in the oral tradition of stories and narratives.

His work offers dynamic reflections of political and existential realities, using mythological and real stories to create experimental, narrative performances that blur the boundaries between fiction and reality. Sîpan focuses on the political dynamics of language as a power dynamic, exploring multilingualism and the embodiment of language in performance in terms of accessibility and narrative diversity.

Sîpan graduated from the DAS Theatre Master's programme in 2024. During the April edition of Beginnings by Frascati Producties, he created A , I , U or U , A , I or I , U , A or whatever. Previously, Sîpan appeared at Frascati during the Fringe Festival with The Absent Academy and TOWER. He is also an artist-in-residence at WP Zimmer in Brussels and at Toneelschuur Producties. His work was recently presented at the Beyond the Blackbox festival in both the Netherlands and Flanders.

The press about Sîpan Sezgin Tekin

“An immense sense of incapacity, wrapped in a Dadaist game, rises from the calm persistence with which Tekin keeps trying taking his time, much like chewing on liquorice.”
Theaterkrant on The Cud during the Beyond the Black Box festival

“Stories embody resistance and serve as testimonies of triumph. And as long as the fight for justice continues, Sezgin Tekin will keep spreading and passing on these stories.”
Theaterkrant on The Mountain