Anyone can find themselves in a codependent relationship at one point in their life. For some it is in marriage, for others it’s in the office. What’s harmony for some, is harmful for others. Fueled by twenty years of experience as classical musicians, Yung-Tuan and Che-Sheng reveal the competition, hierarchical structures and highly unequal power dynamics, and they endure all that hardship, because in the end they want what anyone truly wants: to be seen and heard. With loud drums and intense intimate scenes these two performers give you a chance to look inside their vulnerable minds. How did they fight their way to the top and how many bruises did they have to earn? And why do they choose to keep their mouth shut when they see superiors abuse their powers? It is absurd, fragile, traumatising and yet addictive.
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About the makers
The Grand Percussionist is a percussion theatre collective founded by Yung-Tuan Ku and Che-Sheng Wu. Both are Taiwanese-Dutch percussionists, performers, and theater makers based in Amsterdam. They share similar backgrounds and experiences from their upbringing and cultural integration. Yung-Tuan and Che-Sheng aim to develop and promote percussion theatre as a powerful form of musical expression, encompassing everything from earnest social and political statements to light-hearted and humorous incidents.
About Amsterdam Fringe Festival
Each year in September, Amsterdam Fringe Festival showcases a mixture of theatre, performance and dance, created by new, upcoming and untamed talents.
We present a multidisciplinary program containing over 60 artists of diverse backgrounds, origins and futures. Our festival is a free zone for experiment and offers a stage to new makers and their stories. Amsterdam Fringe Festival is an ode to theatrical madness, independent minds and a plea to artistic freedom. A warm, intimate embrace of experimentation at its core: the outcome might be extremely surprising.
The entire city is our playground: from a rooftop to a club and into a theatre, north to south; for 11 days you can find us at 27 locations, spread across Amsterdam.
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Language: EN