Stand-up from Amsterdam: Ari Helderman and Mikhail Grevtsov

Baltas Teatras presents: stand-up from Amsterdam — Ari Helderman and Mikhail Grevtsov in Vilnius for the first time!

About the evening:
Two comedians from the Netherlands, known to audiences from Amsterdam to Zurich, finally make it to Vilnius. One evening, two solo sets and one shared story: a Dutchman who became a little Russian, and a Russian who became a little Dutch.

Ari Helderman is a born-and-bred Dutchman who learned Russian so well that he now does stand-up in it. His YouTube channel “Ari govorit po-russki” has 160,000 subscribers and more than 26 million views. Ari talks about life in the Netherlands from the inside and from the outside at once: dating, everyday habits, cultural differences and those moments when “normal” in one country means “weird” in another.

Mikhail Grevtsov is a “two-metre Dutchman from Voronezh” and one of the founders of the Russian-language stand-up scene in the Netherlands. He moved to Amsterdam as an adult and has been joking ever since about the essential immigrant experience: how to fit into a new country without losing yourself, and why the logic you grew up with stops working in a new place.

Why you should see it:

Two points of view: a Dutchman on Russians and a Russian on the Dutch — a rare duo where each laughs at himself before laughing at the other.
It is about us: if you live somewhere other than where you were born and translate not just your words but yourself into another language every day, many of these stories will turn out to be yours.
An intimate venue: 220 seats, perfect sight and sound from every row — exactly how stand-up should feel.

One evening, two comedians and a lot of truth about life between cultures — the funny kind of truth.