Armed with sharp jokes, disarming stories, and immersive music, Saman disrupts the patterns in which we confine ourselves.

What happens when you grow up in an asylum seekers' center, where you encounter the perspectives of people from halfway around the world, from Eastern Europe to West Africa? When you grow up in a welfare family in a Brabant farming village and work your way up to the cultural elite in the big city? It gives you a hyper-diverse circle of friends: from gay to homophobic, from feminist to sexist, from anarchist to journalist, from ex-criminal to former minister, from pro-refugee to ex-refugee who became anti-refugee. Everywhere you hear hard truths that have no space in mainstream media.

In Everything is Perspective, Saman takes the audience through the pain points that are splitting the Netherlands today: fascism, racism, inequality, homophobia, LGBTQIA+ rights, the runaway woke culture, and the role of the media in this polarization. However, Saman does not do this from behind a safe wall of opinions: he digs, investigates, talks to the people around him, and steps into the shoes of others – no matter how uncomfortable that may be. Not to judge, but to understand.

Alles is Perspectief is not a performance where you comfortably sink into your theatre seat. This is cabaret that rubs, prods, and invites you to reassess your position. But always with humor. Always with love. Always with the realization that the perspective of the other – no matter how twisted it may seem – comes from a source that is closer than you think.

“Perhaps our pain does not lie in what is done to us, but in the idea that no one understands us.” — Saman Amini

• concept, music, text & performance Saman Amini direction Geert Lageveen & Saman Amini music Martin Verheesen