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Sadettin K - Kameleon
Ruby Cruden

Kameleon

Sadettin K
Thu 3 Dec '26 20:30
What does it mean to keep changing color
Thu 3 Dec '26
20:30
  • Thu 3 Dec '26
    20:30
    Location: Natlab - Main Play (Kastanjelaan 500)
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"Raise your hand if you are white!" shouts Sadettin's daughter in the living room. She raises her hand, and he joins in. "Daddy! You're brown!" she says, laughing. She is six, has dark blond hair and blue eyes and was baptized in the village church. But she watches her favorite movies in Turkish and sometimes says, "When I grow up, I will become a Muslim." Who is this child? And who is Sadettin next to her?

In KAMELEON , theater maker Sadettin Kırmızıyüz explores what it means to keep changing color. He switches between roles: at home the good Turkish son, on play the culturally responsible migrant and in talk shows the nuanced Dutchman with a multicultural background. For years, he saw this as a talent: the ability to adapt and move effortlessly between worlds.

But now there is his daughter.

Because of her white skin, the world suddenly seems to check him differently. In the playground, bakfiets parents chat, and when a police car drives by, he no longer feels like a possible description. Her whiteness seems to rub af on him: from "that Turkish man" to "just a father."

Until he raises his hand when his daughter asks who is white.
And she corrects him.

In KAMELEON identity constantly shifts: by the gaze of others, by the times in which you live, and sometimes by your own child. With humor and sharpness, Sadettin shows how we all change color - often without realizing it.

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