21 Mar

20:00

TR25 Schouwburg

Schouwburgplein 25, Rotterdam

Following the success of Integration Plan #1, named best cabaret show of 2022, Saman Amini returns with a sequel. Armed with sharp jokes, personal stories, and compelling music, he disrupts the patterns in which we think ourselves stuck.

Saman Amini’s Integration Plan

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What happens when you grow up in an asylum seekers' center, where you get to know the perspectives of people from half the world, from Eastern Europe to West Africa? When you grow up in a welfare family in a Brabant farming village and work your way up to the cultural elite in the big city? It gives you a hyper-diverse circle of friends: from gay to homophobic, from feminist to sexist, from anarchist to journalist, from ex-criminal to former minister, from pro-refugee to ex-refugee who became anti-refugee. Everywhere you hear hard truths for which there is no room in the mainstream media.

In Everything is Perspective, Saman takes the audience through the pain points that divide the Netherlands today: fascism, racism, inequality, homophobia, LGBTQIA+ rights, the over-the-top woke culture, and the role of the media in this polarization. However, Saman does not do this from behind a safe wall of opinions: he digs, investigates, talks to the people around him, and puts himself in the other's shoes – no matter how uncomfortable that may be. Not to condemn, but to understand.

Everything is Perspective is not a show where you can just sit back and relax in your theater seat. This is cabaret that chafes, provokes, and invites you to reconsider your position. But always with humor. Always with love. Always with the realization that the other's perspective - no matter how twisted it may seem - comes from a source closer than you think.

“Perhaps our pain is not in what is done to us, but in the idea that no one understands us.” — Saman Amini

Press on Saman Amini's Integration Plan #1

"Best cabaret show of 2022. Amini achieves a perfect symbiosis between cabaret and theater, between light and dark, between trauma and perspective in his own way." - Ron Rijghard, NRC ★★★★★

"Saman Amini pokes fun at the Dutch and himself in his hilarious show" - de Volkskrant ★★★★

"Witty, connecting, but also in a way that, rightly, hurts a little." - Het Parool

"Beautifully abrasive cabaret from a true performer" - Scènes ★★★★

Team

concept, music, text and performance Saman Amini
direction and textual contribution Geert Lageveen
music and musical direction Martin Verheesen
dramaturgy Nima Mohaghegh, Thomas de Neve
set and costume design Dieuweke van Reij
lighting design Bart van den Heuvel
graphic design publicity image Tom Jager
marketing Janna Maars
business management Marijn Vegter, Christine de Jager
arrangements Oskar Billy Hempen
producer Black Sheep Can Fly
tour planning Senf Theater, Delft
made possible in part by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst