Ratri Notosudirdjo (DAI, 2026) presents In the Way Depths at Amsterdam Fringe Festival 2026 ! Six collaborators and one dirty sink, together they build a liminal home. What emerges is a shadow realm, where every excuse is borrowed, but no one is doing the dishes alone. What started as one artist’s vision became a stage that could only be held collectively. Fagner Lima, a Brazilian artist and game-designer, co-directs and co-inhabits the roommates’ spiral. Magdalena Petrova, a multimedia and performance artist shaped by animistic Bulgarian heritage and post-communist shadows, co-produces and performs the slow unweaving of friendship into myth. Jip van der Hek, a multidisciplinary artist working in the social domain, co-produces and performs within the unraveling. Saina Salarian, an Iranian writer and cultural worker, co-produces and performs, stewarding chaos. Leo Hugendubel, a photographer, interdisciplinary artist and singer, co-produces and performs at the edge of the table’s tension. ~~~~~~~ Amsterdam Fringe Festival shows a mixmash of theatre, performance and dance from new, emerging and untamed talent for 11 days every September.
What starts as petty arguments — Whose turn? Why me? I’ll do it later! — spirals into a summoning. As tensions rise in the roommate’s apartment, a haunted portal opens inside their home but before anyone notices, two exhausted shadow monsters are dragged out of retirement to retell the stories of each roommate’s gut wrenching, tear dripping, nose leaking excuse.
Through shadow puppetry, live soundscapes, and comedy, every bad reason is transformed into its own mythology. Strained friendships, work schedules, childhood memories, colonial legacies, precarious housing, expensive lifestyles— all crash together on stage.
In the Way Depths transforms a domestic dispute into a surreal shadow world where avoidance becomes monstrous, ridiculous, and painfully familiar. Humour and haunting share the same breath because sometimes the most honest thing you can do is watch your excuses turn into ghosts.
5-6-7-8 September 2026
About: Ratri Notosudirdjo
Amsterdam Fringe Festival 2026