Funny, sad, scary, sweet, unbelievable, comforting stories: that's what Soula's Storytelling Nights are all about. Make yourself at home and listen to stories from all over the word!
So on Tuesday October 1th come and listen to experienced storytellers and talented newcomers tell their tales. And if inspiration strikes, audience-members are invited to put their name in a hat. At the end of the night two names will be picked at random and these two lucky birds will get to share their story. True stories about crazy families, horrible dates, myths, folk tales, newly written stories: anything goes as long as the stories are told and not read from paper.
After four beautiful and personal storytelling evenings in season 23-24, Soula and Theater Kikker will also present four editions in the new theater season. Soula welcomes you on October 1, December 17, February 11 and April 15.
Soula's Storytelling Nights is in English.
Cené Hale is an American actress, writer and storyteller whose work focuses on complex female stories. As a former main stage actress at Boom Chicago comedy theater in Amsterdam, Cené has travelled and performed on stages and at festivals all over the United States and Europe. Including Edinburgh Fringe Festival (EDI), Oerol Festival (NL), Women Are Funny Festival (CHI), and the Del Close Marathon (NYC) just to name a few. Her work has been featured on IndieWire, Huffington Post, Above Average, WhoHAHA and corporate intranet portals around the world. Cené is currently based in Amsterdam where you can catch her teaching improv, coming up with comedy songs while riding her bike, telling stories and pretending to like drop candy.
Jugal Bhinde is a storyteller with a background in journalism and human rights. Before moving to The Netherlands, Jugal worked as a conflict reporter in Kashmir, Jordan, and the West Bank. He believes there are several stories about people that get lost in mainstream media, and rather than listening to people in positions of power, it is the subjugated, discriminated against, and victims of violence who deserve a platform before anyone else. Jugal aims to bring these stories on stage, and act as a vessel for the voiceless.
Kiki Miller-Hohnen was born in Australia, grew up there, in Sri Lanka and Belgium, and has lived for most of her life in Amsterdam. Originally an improviser, she first started telling stories as a favour to her friend who needed more people on the line-up at Mezrab one night. That was 12 years ago, and she's been telling stories since. Her window washer describes her as “a nice lady who always pays her bills on time."
Utrecht based Rian Evers is a troubadour, songwriter, composer, singer and musician.For over ten years she has been writing songs, composing music and performing. Now, in collaboration with other musicians she performs under the name of Reversed and is working on their first work a double-debut-EP called Headstrong. More info.
Soula Notos is a versatile theater maker and performer based in Utrecht (theater, storytelling, spoken word, stand-up comedy). With her solo Who are you when no one is looking? she performed at various storytelling festivals (Oslo, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Prague, London) and also at Oerol and Festival Boulevard. She is currently in theaters with her new solo Gurbet - or how I became rich. She tells stories to connect, to change, to laugh. To remember. More info: www.soula.nl
