BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:24839@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:HEAVY META DTSTAMP:20260714T185742Z DTSTART:20260905T060000Z DESCRIPTION:“Wow\, this show-description really makes me want to watch this show.” This is\nwhat you just read. “This is what you just read”. This is what you just read.\nAnd now you are thinking “Wait\, what?”.\n\nCan I re ad your thoughts? No. But I can write them. I wish I could continue\nwriti ng your thoughts\, but they only gave me 150 words for this\nshow-descript ion. Now that I think about it\, I could have used these first 78\nwords b etter. 81 now.\n\nThe show is called Heavy Meta. Meta as in meta-humour\, meta-comedy\,\nmeta-theatre. Not Meta as in Mark Zuckerberg. I don’t want you thinking about\nMark Zuckerberg when thinking of this show. Stop doing that!\n\nHeavy Meta a show about a comedian who loves self-referential hu mour: humour\nthat refers back to itself\, like this sentence. And he feel s guilty for not\nhaving a higher message. Which he might find\, with your help.\n\nCristian Boscheri is an Italian\, Rotterdam-based performer work ing at the\nintersection of theatre\, dance and comedy. He previously work ed as an engineer\nat TU Eindhoven and co-founded Stichting wedowe before committing fully to the\narts in 2024.\n\nHe has been a (break)dancer for twenty years\, winning his first national\nchampionship in Italy in 2009 a nd Open Your Mind\, an international experimental\ndance competition\, in 2023. From dance he began exploring mime\, clowning and\nstand-up comedy\, although he doesn’t consider what he does to be stand-up\ncomedy. He call s it X-comedy\, a form combining self-referential humour\,\nclowning\, sma ll-scale physical comedy and audience interaction. The X is a\nplaceholder because he doesn’t know which word belongs there. He has performed\nregul arly on stand-up and alternative comedy stages since 2024\, reaching the\n finals of the Comedy Talent Award twice in 2025.\n\nHis previous show Plea ser\, performed at Amsterdam Fringe 2025\, is rooted in\ndance and clownin g. Heavy Meta is his new and first full-length performance\nwithout dance\ , built around self-referential comedy and language.\n\nTuinhuis URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/heavy-meta-1 GEO:52.3830883;4.9030297 LOCATION:Tolhuistuin - IJpromenade 2\, 1031 KT Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:alternative,amsterdam-noord,buiksloterweg,comedy,dance,experimen tal,performance,theater X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

“Wow, this show-description really makes me want to watch this show.” This is what you just read. “This is what you j ust read”. This is what you just read. And now you are thinking “Wait, wha t?”.

Can I read your thoughts? No. But I can write them. I wish I c ould continue writing your thoughts, but they only gave me 150 words for t his show-description. Now that I think about it, I could have used these f irst 78 words better. 81 now.

The show is called Heavy Meta. Meta a s in meta-humour, meta-comedy, meta-theatre. Not Meta as in Mark Zuckerber g. I don’t want you thinking about Mark Zuckerberg when thinking of this s how. Stop doing that!

Heavy Meta a show about a comedian who loves self-referential humour: humour that refers back to itself, like this sent ence. And he feels guilty for not having a higher message. Which he might find, with your help.

Cristian Boscheri is an Italian, Rotterdam-ba sed performer working at the intersection of theatre, dance and comedy. He previously worked as an engineer at TU Eindhoven and co-founded Stichting wedowe before committing fully to the arts in 2024.

He has been a ( break)dancer for twenty years, winning his first national championship in Italy in 2009 and Open Your Mind, an international experimental dance comp etition, in 2023. From dance he began exploring mime, clowning and stand-u p comedy, although he doesn’t consider what he does to be stand-up comedy. He calls it X-comedy, a form combining self-referential humour, clowning, small-scale physical comedy and audience interaction. The X is a placehol der because he doesn’t know which word belongs there. He has performed reg ularly on stand-up and alternative comedy stages since 2024, reaching the finals of the Comedy Talent Award twice in 2025.

His previous show P leaser, performed at Amsterdam Fringe 2025, is rooted in dance and clownin g. Heavy Meta is his new and first full-length performance without dance, built around self-referential comedy and language.

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