Sadettin K.

The new solo by Sadettin Kırmızıyüz about fathers and sons, origins and future, the Netherlands and extraterrestrial life. Or actually: about what it feels like to be an alien in your own country.  A performance about how you hold each other, even when the world makes you insecure.

FIRST MAN takes you into the personal story of Sadettin and his ten-year-old son. The morning after the PVV's election victory in 2023, the phone rings. It's Sadettin's ex-wife. Their son wants to know if his grandparents will be deported. “Do you want to talk to him?”In the kitchen, Sadettin tries to reassure his son: “We belong here. Even though our name sounds different. No matter what happens, we will stay here.”But Sadettin himself is awake. In his dreams he wonders whether Earth is as dangerous for his child as the planet Krypton is for the young Superman.

After years of experiencing discrimination and xenophobia himself, Sadettin fears that his son will now also have to learn to live with it. Kırmızıyüz's family speaks several languages ​​and they celebrate Christmas, Ramadan, Easter, the Feast of the Sacrifice and Sinterklaas. Yet it feels like they have to prove again and again that they belong here, just because Sadettin's father once came from elsewhere.

For FIRST MAN, Sadettin works with director Nicole Beutler for the first time. Nicole is a choreographer and theater maker, and has been a fixture in the Dutch theater landscape for years. From dance and visual theater she developed a idiosyncratic and poetic language that stimulates, surprises and pushes boundaries.

Credits
Concept, text and play Sadettin Kırmızıyüz Director Nicole Beutler Dramaturgy Liet Lenshoek Scenography Emin Batman Costume Sacha Zwiers Light GéSince 2010 he has been the artistic director of SADETTIN K and creates performances under that banner. Sadettin's work is characterized by a strongly autobiographical and documentary character: he draws on his personal life and experiences to create performances in which identity, migration, discrimination, politics and the history of both the Netherlands and the world play a role and personal and universal themes mingle. He made a name for himself with performances about his family such as Somedaymyprincewill.com and Return of the King and performances about current themes such as radicalization and discrimination such as The Radicalization of Sadettin K and Citizen K. With his performances, Sadettin breaks through the framework of our ingrained thinking patterns.

45 minutes before the start, an introduction will be given by Annette Embrechts, dance and theater journalist for de Volkskrant. You can reserve a spot for this free of charge during the ordering process.