Performance / Dutch premiere / English Spoken

Frederico Araujo

SHARK

For an hour, two players keep a volleyball in the air. As a metaphor for life and theater. Rallying in a match, they explore questions about societal boundaries, such as immigration, identity, and otherness.

How much do you adapt to be part of "a new team"? Is their effort enough to achieve their goal? To what extent does performativity in theater and sports overlap? Are they players or performers? As time passes, their bodies grow more exhausted from the effort of keeping the ball in the air. SHARK is an exploration at the intersection of sports, performance, and theater.

 Frederico Araujo is an actor and director from Brazil, where he graduated in 2010. In 2023, he obtained a master's degree in Directing at RICTS in Belgium. In his work, Araujo explores how he can turn life into poetry through play. Play is his most important value—like a child inventing new worlds.