Sahand Sahebdivani

This show is for regular visitors, students and VU employees, but a special VU employee offer does apply. As a VU employee you may bring 3 guests for the same discounted price that you can select in the ordering process.

Stories don’t die. They keep living in us, like echoes that keep reverberating between the high mountains. When the father stops telling stories, his son has to carry on. The Distant Word is an attempt by storyteller Sahand to keep his father’s stories alive, years after his revolutionary ideals extinguished. Together with the audience he makes an attempt to imagine himself in the Iranian mountains, or in an old prison, in a typical Dutch landscape. Do the stories still tell us anything today? Isn’t it easier to finally leave them untold, especially now that Sahand has become a father himself?

About Sahand
Sahand Sahebdivani (1980) is the most known storyteller of The Netherlands. In 2004 he founded the Mezrab, which has since grown to become one of the most important storytelling stages of the world. Sahand arrived in the Netherlands as a refugee of the Iran-Iraq war at the age of three. The experiences of him and his family have been the basis of the majority of his work.

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“Het verre woord is een liefdevolle ode aan zijn vader en een boeiende inkijk in het leven van een communistische revolutionair tijdens de Iraanse Revolutie”

Theaterkrant

About the employee shows

The VU staff performances are an initiative of the Lokaal Overleg VU, the forum of the trade union representation at the VU. With the help of the employment conditions funds that the VU makes available as an employer, VU employees are able to attend the best performances for a modest sum ten times a year.

Tickets for the employee performances are only available for current VU employees, not for former employees and employees of the VUmc. Tickets for the employee show cost €3,- each. On presentation of an employee pass, you can order up to 4 tickets, also for non-VU employees. With every employee screening you will receive 2 free tokens per person, to be exchanged at Bar Boele.

For regular screenings, the employee discount only applies to the employee and non-employees pay the regular price.