End your Fringe day with a festive evening in the Fringe X NTF Late Night Bar! / free entry
PROGRAM T.B.A.
Location: Theater Bellevue, Klein Bellevue
Date: thursday 5 september
- Toilet for wheelchair users: yes, Wheelchair accessible: yes
doors open: 22:oo / Start program: 22:30
Amsterdam Fringe Festival and Nederlands Theaterfestival are transforming the charming Klein Bellevue into an underground, late-night stage featuring short interviews, acts, and live music, hosted by Rikkert van Huisstede. At the Late Night Bar, you can mingle with friends and strangers alike, letting yourselves be moved deep into the night, with a drink in hand.
In the mood for a festive and surprising Fringe afterparty? Want to catch more cool acts, chat, or meet Fringe creators? The artists will give you a sneak peek with excerpts from their performances!
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Indie Nile
You probably think you have nothing in common with the sex workers you see in the red-light windows. But just like you, they protect their hearts from pain. Only their armor is sex.
‘How 2 Have a Happy Ending’ is a drag theater show about the fear of intimacy, where drag artist Indie Nile shares his life story as a sex worker through a tragicomedy version of the iconic film ‘Pretty Woman.’ You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll taste vulnerability, and you’ll leave the theater ready to find the love of your life.
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Giovanni Brand
We’re offering a preview of the show I LOVE ROMA. I LOVE ROMA is a dialogue between accordion and voice. Giovanni Brand and Sara Salvérius perform ten ballads of solace, reviving a forgotten history and giving a voice to those who were never seen as equals. It’s a tribute to those who were never comforted, with the hope of changing the future of the Roma community.
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We look forward to seeing you at the Late Night Bar!
Biography
Indie Nile
Award-winning theater maker and popular YouTuber Indie Nile is the first (and only) ‘drag therapist.’ He combines the art form of drag and pop culture with raw vulnerability and real self-help tools. Born in Italy to a Palestinian father, Indie grew up in Dubai and later studied filmmaking in New York before settling in Amsterdam and launching a career as a drag performance artist.
Before drag, Indie was a celebrated documentary filmmaker tackling taboo subjects with hard-hitting stories. Post-drag, the hard-hitting stuff is still there, just now wrapped in a fabulous wig, catchy lipsyncs, and some stand-up comedy. When you’re at an Indie Nile show, you start healing your abandonment wounds, but you wouldn’t know it because you’re too busy jamming to your favorite pop songs.
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Giovanni Brand
(1994, he/him) is a performer and writer who graduated from the Maastricht Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2020. He always starts his work from a place of human intimacy, making big topics feel relatable. His work carries an activist message with a strong communicative quality. His mission is to further the emancipation of the marginalized Roma community and give them a voice on stage. He is currently the only professional Roma theater maker in the Netherlands.
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Sara Salvérius
(Ghent, 1985) studied accordion with Philippe Thuriot at the conservatory of Ghent. She has participated in various folk and world music projects and has performed both domestically and internationally.
Since 2017, she has dedicated a significant portion of her time to composing her own music, for which she was awarded the Flanders Folk Award for Best Album in 2022.