09 Jul

20:30

Plein Theater

Sajetplein 39, Amsterdam

A sparkling drag monologue about Amsterdam’s most famous nightclub, RoXY. A thrilling and intimate ode to the ‘second home’ of an entire generation of night owls.

Drag Me [2] RoXY (Try Out)

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A theatrical ode to the famous Club RoXY

Drag Me [2] RoXY is a sparkling drag monologue about Amsterdam’s most famous nightclub. A thrilling and intimate ode to the ‘second home’ of an entire generation of night owls. World-famous stars, extravagant outfits, sensational performances, and an infamous door policy: RoXY was an iconic safe haven of freedom. Thirty years later, actor and drag performer Sytze Bouma longs to bring RoXY back to life. Armed with a stack of interviews with former RoXY regulars, and using drag performances, old photographs, and pounding house music, Sytze explores what remains today of the ‘paradise refuge’ that RoXY once was. A visually rich as well as exciting solo performance about the longing for a queer home, and an invitation to breathe new life into old freedoms. Drag Me [2] RoXY transports you to the legendary nightclub, which went up in flames in the summer of 1999.

About Sytze Bouma

Sytze Bouma is an actor and theatre maker. He graduated in 2024 from the theatre school in Arnhem, where he discovered and explored his joy in physical performance and his playful inner world. Sytze writes queer stories in which he explores personal fascinations and nostalgic feelings through a mixture of theatrical forms, mainly text and drag performance. Since the fall of 2024, Sytze has been working on a series of solo performances around his quest for a queer home. In these drag solos Sytze combines charming text-based theatre with playful drag performance. Drag Me Home — the first solo in this series, about the mysterious attic performer Bob — won the Audience Award at last year’s Café Theater Festival in Utrecht. Drag Me [2] RoXY is Sytze’s second drag solo and first piece for the small hall. This fall, following its premiere at Amsterdam Fringe Festival in September, the performance will tour through the Netherlands.

In the media

Scenes.nu: ‘In an almost self-evident way, [Bouma] moves through the space and easily wraps the audience around his finger. ... The young queer theater maker knows how to intriguingly bring together lipsyncs and text-based theater in a drag performance.’

3voor12: ‘At times hilarious, sensitive, recognizable, but above all very well done’

Credits

Concept, text, performance: Sytze Bouma | Final direction: Mara van Vlijmen | Text supervision: Nic Bruckman | Performance supervision: Lars Brinkman | Costume advice: Jacqueline Steijlen | Set design: Oene Bouma | Technology and light design: Robin van den Berg | Sound design: Dorian Kreso | Production: Pleun Swart | Campaign image: Ies Kaczmarek | Poster design: Hannes Schievink | With warm acknowledgment to the RoXY-goers involved: Joost van Bellen, Cleo Campert, Claudie Crommelin, Arjen Schrama, Adzer van der Molen, Jaap en Marja, Eva.