Fer is on a deadline

do 13 aug 2026

Fer Rodil - Mezrab | House of Creation

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Foto van een man op theatervloer met naast hem een toilet.
Alborz Sahebdivani
Fer has a diagnosis that tells him one thing: his body will let him down one day. When? No idea. 'Fer is on a Deadline' is a comic performance in which Fer uses personal stories and an original life song to talk about how you keep on living when you know you are going to get sick.

Location

Theater aan de Parade/Pleinzaal

Duration

70 min.

Entrance fee

€ 17,50

Genre

Storytelling

Date

do 13 aug 2026 om 20:30 uur

Language

Engels

Toegankelijkheid

suitable for people with sensitivity to stimuli

Bus

Nee

Extra informatie

Deze voorstelling is in het Engels, het verhaal is goed te volgen met basisvaardigheden Engels.

do 13 aug 2026
20:30

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As a teenager, Fer first started thinking about death when he realised that everyone is mortal. He had a lot of feelings about that, mostly negative ones. A therapist, who kept forgetting his name, explained to him that he was not afraid of death, but of life.

"— You paralyse yourself with fear of death, the one problem you cannot solve. So that you do not have to face the problems you can solve. What you fear is not death, Federico. What you fear is life.
— My name is Fernando.
— Oh right, Fernando. Sorry."

Now that the Grim Reaper is showing his face more and more often, seemingly waving at Fer from every street corner, Fer goes in search of the meaning of a mortal life. In the hope of, at the very least, giving Death a good laugh.

'Fer is on a Deadline' is a comedy storytelling show, inspired by a year of particularly bad timing: the death of a friend, a frightening diagnosis and a break-up.

Good to know

  • The performance is in English. No surtitles are available. 
  • The performance deals with themes including cancer and grief. 

About the artist

Fer Rodil grew up with stories and never stopped. The Argentinian storyteller has more than fourteen years of experience in theatre and writing, worked as a screenwriter for HBO, Amazon Prime and Disney+, and moved to the Netherlands in 2020. 

After completing the professional training at the Mezrab Storytelling School, he performed at Oerol, Amsterdam Fringe and Edinburgh Fringe. ‘Fer is on a Deadline’ is a production by Mezrab | House of Creation, the first production house in the Netherlands dedicated to storytelling as a performing art. House of Creation offers artists artistic guidance, production support and a network of theatres and festivals in the development of their work. 

Credits

Concept & performer Fer Rodil 
Artistic guidance Farnoosh Farnia 
Final director Igor Alvarez Cugat
Technical design Robin Plenio 
Production Davide Calciolari 
Music composition Aryeh Hasfari
Movement coach Sofía García Miramón
Video animation Sophie Koko Gate

Photo Alborz Sahebdivani / Max
Coproducer Mezrab | House of Creation

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