Finalistentour 2025 - Leids Cabaret Festival

Cabaret

This is how the Comedians get the chance to develop. Discover the new big names of the Dutch cabaret world before they become known to the general public! Some former finalists are Najib Amhali, Paulien Cornelisse, Wim Helsen, Sanne Wallis de Vries, Micha Wertheim, Sara Kroos, Tim Fransen, Lisa Ostermann and Kasper van der Laan. Be surprised and who knows, it will be a ui to cry with laughter!

about the finalists:

Bob Koomen (1993)
Bob is genius, but the world does not realize that. He has good intentions, and even better ideas. Ideas to help the world, only the world often pretends to be the one who needs help. This performance is an attempt to come to a compromise on this.

David van Rosmalen (1994)
In his musical performance If I was you David takes the audience on a philosophical journey of discovery through his own life. David looks back on the choices that he made to who he is now and wonders: could I have chosen differently? Because David can do what he wants, but could he have wanted differently? And does he actually know what he wants? Asking questions for answers and answers ask for words. David searches for the meaning of life with sentences full of meaningful nonsense.

Yara Piekema (1995)
Yara has difficulty starting. She really intends to start so many things, but not yet. For example, she could become so ballerina or professional kickboxer if she would start. Then start smoking then? A performance about uncertainty, imperfection, Henk Schiffmacher and the search for yourself in a world full of expectations.