RUNNER

Ira Brand / Frascati Producties in coproductie met SPRING Performing Arts Festival / CAMPO / Battersea Arts Centre

Wed 21 May ’25 - Tue 16 Dec ’25

A woman is running away from the theatre.

Wed 21 May ’25

Tue 16 Dec ’25

Only events in our venues
Wed 21 May ’25

21:00

Try-out

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 2

To wishlist

coming soon
Fri 23 May ’25

20:30

Première / tourlocatie Utrecht

Frascati Producties on tour

SPRING Performing Arts Festival, Utrecht

To wishlist

External Ticketsale
Sat 24 May ’25

15:30

tourlocatie, Utrecht

Frascati Producties on tour

SPRING Performing Arts Festival, Utrecht

To wishlist

External Ticketsale
Wed 29 Oct ’25

20:00

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 4

To wishlist

coming soon
Thu 30 Oct ’25

20:00

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 4

To wishlist

coming soon
Fri 31 Oct ’25

20:00

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 4

To wishlist

coming soon
Sat 1 Nov ’25

20:00

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 4

To wishlist

coming soon
Thu 27 Nov ’25

20:30

tourlocatie, Tilburg

Frascati Producties on tour

Nieuwe Vorst, Tilburg

To wishlist

coming soon
Thu 11 Dec ’25

20:30

tourlocatie, Den Haag

Het Nationale Theater

To wishlist

coming soon
Tue 16 Dec ’25

20:00

tourlocatie, Almere

Frascati Producties on tour

Corrosia, Almere

To wishlist

coming soon

Setting a pace, covering distance, breaking a sweat. In pursuit of some knowledge, or a place, or an idea. Step by step by step. Hot on the heels of a feeling. You are invited to accompany her, this unfamiliar body making its way through the city.

Is she seeking something, or is she making an escape? Heavy calves, beating hearts, steamed breath curling from our nostrils. Working hard, and being good.

RUNNER is a performance about running and exhaustion. It explores the interwoven and contradictory joys, miseries and potentials of both physical exhaustion and exhaustion as a sociopolitical state. What kind of proximity, intimacy, and pleasure can be produced by hearing a body exert itself? And why do we value people when they are pushing themselves to their limits?

Part of

Frascati Producties

Credits

concept and performance Ira Brand dramaturge Marta Keil final direction Abigail Conway scenography and light design Tim Vermeulen sound design Thomas van den Berg producer Frascati Producties coproducers SPRING Performing Arts Festival / CAMPO / Battersea Arts Centre thanks to Ammodo

About Ira Brand

Ira Brand is an artist, writer, performer and theatre-maker. She graduated from Dartington College of Arts in 2007, and in 2019 completed the DAS Theatre Masters in Amsterdam. She makes live, inter-disciplinary performance: solo stage shows, one-to-one pieces, duets, or participatory work. Ira sets off from personal stating points as a means of addressing broader social, political and formal issues.

Ira’s work has been widely presented internationally. Since 2022 she is Associate Maker at Frascati Producties in Amsterdam. She is also one of the co-directors of the award-winning artist-led collective Forest Fringe, with whom she ran a festival venue at the Edinburgh Fringe for ten years, and has delivered projects, festivals, and residencies in London, Hong Kong, New York, Auckland, Dublin, Lisbon, Kanazawa, and Salvador da Bahia.

Ira’s performances have been presented at Malavoadora Porto, TNT Festival Terrassa, Kanagawa Arts Theatre Yokohama, Arnolfini Bristol, The Yard, Shoreditch Town Hall, The Wellcome Collection, and Ovalhouse London, Buzzcut Festival Glasgow, Monty Kultuurfaktorij Antwerp, CAMPO Ghent, The Basement Auckland, Altofest Naples, and the first Paris Globe Festival in 2024.