raphael rodan
sahand sahebdivani
sons
of
abraham
raphael rodan
sahand sahebdivani
sons
of
abraham
Raphael Rodan (1980, Israel) and Sahand Sahebdivani (1980, Iran) discovered each other and their family connection in: Kingdom of Fire and Clay and My Father Held a Gun (winner of the Amsterdam Fringe Gold Award 2017). This time this successful duo takes on the role of someone else.
When you love someone so much – you’d rather kill them than leave them
Two Kurdish brothers Adil and Sami(r) do their last night shift as cleaners of a brothel in the Red Light District. They are about to return to Iraq, to give a dignified farewell to their recently deceased mother. But they have not been honest to each other about their plans…
5 years of living illegally have changed the brothers. Sami aspires to Western life in its full glory, especially the free thinking. He might have moved here to work for his future, but now he is mainly interested in partying. Adil has become very disillusioned in the West. He misses the collective sense of life from his home country and has increasingly returned to his religious roots.
While the brothers are cleaning and discussing the impending departure, we go back in time. They tell stories about their flight, discuss Western values, Eastern standards, exclusion, assimilation and wrestle with the immense internal conflict that both brothers experience. Like in many biblical stories, they are tied together by their brotherhood, but is it enough to keep them together?…
In Sons of Abraham nothing is what it seems at first glance.
Tuesday September 22 – 20.30 (Try out) – Theater Bellevue, Amsterdam
Wednesday September 23 – 20.30 (Premiere) – Theater Bellevue, Amsterdam
Thursday September 24 – 20.30 – Theater Bellevue, Amsterdam
Saturday October 17 – 20.00 – Theater Kikker, Utrecht
Sunday October 18 – 15.30 – Theater Kikker, Utrecht
Sunday October 18 – 20.00 -Theater Kikker, Utrecht
Saturday November 21 – 19.00 -STET / Zaal 3, Den Haag
Saturday November 21 – 21.00 – STET / Zaal 3, Den Haag
Sunday November 22 – 19.00 – STET / Zaal 3, Den Haag
Sunday November 22 – 21.00 – STET / Zaal 3, Den Haag
Saturday December 5 – 21.00 – Podium Mozaïek, Amsterdam
Sunday December 6 – 16.00 – Podium Mozaïek, Amsterdam
Saturday December 12 – 20.00 – Theater Zuidplein, Rotterdam
Production by: Storytelling Centre
Text: Raphael Rodan, Sahand Sahebdivani, Tom Radcliffe
Performers: Raphael Rodan and Sahand Sahebdivani
Director: Tom Radcliffe
Codirector: Julie Peters
Scenography: Mirko Lazović
Team behind the scenes: Dorèndel Overmars and Irina Koriazova
Photos by Raymond van Mil and Alborz Sahebdivani
Special thanks to: Arjen Barel, Farnoosh Farnia, R. Rasheed, Frank Noorland and Karl Giesriegl