Listen to the stories of professional storytellers and talented newcomers!
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 April 16th 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.
Four times a year, Soula Notos hosts this storytelling evening in Theater Kikker. This is the last edition of this theater season.
Soula's Storytelling Night is in English.
Irina Koriazova (1994) is an Amsterdam-based storyteller. Born in a provincial city in Russia, she never thought she would leave. And yet here she is, trying to make sense of her life through telling stories. Irina has a dry sense of humour and she likes to turn things upside down: a huge scary monster becomes worthy of love, and a victim turns into a protagonist. Her stories are often described as raw and unsanitized. Irina often hosts and performs at Mezrab, as well at other storytelling venues and events all over the Netherlands. She performed at the Boslab Theaterfestival, Gluren bij de Buren festival, Viva la Vulva festival, Oerol Festival, the Amsterdam Fringe Festival (2023) and the Amsterdam Storytelling Festival.
I’m Anas, a storyteller from Syria. Nine years ago, I came to the Netherlands as a refugee, an experience that has profoundly shaped my passion for storytelling. I firmly believe that the best way to truly understand someone is through their stories—the tales of their life. My love for reading and listening to podcasts keeps me continually immersed in the world of narratives. Through storytelling, I aim to share the richness of life, resilience, and the shared human experience, inviting you to know me, and others, one story at a time.
Raffi Feghali is a storyteller, theater director, performer, percussionist, theater sound designer, and peacebuilder working mostly in Europe, USA, and the Middle East while being based between Amsterdam and Beirut.
He‘s directed more than 35 Theatre of the Oppressed, improvisational theatre, and other performances since 2009. As a performer he has performed in more than 60 shows worldwide, under many international directors.Raffi is one of the people who brought improv to Lebanon in 2009 and he has recently embarked on a journey taking him back to his storytelling roots.
He launched his first autobiographical monodrama, Peer Gynt of Bourj Hammoud, in 2018. More recently, he’s been in Interview the Dead and directed We Are The Ones Who Live Here. Anatomy of a Home, his second autobiographical monodrama premiered at the 2022 Amsterdam Fringe Festival. See for more info: www.raffifeghali.com
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.
