pulling the trigger

2025 - 2026

Everything looks familiar, yet feels off. The body has returned home, but the mind hasn’t fully caught up. The body is here, yet memory moves on its own. A sound - too loud, too close. An accidental gesture. A stranger’s face. Ordinary moments begin to fracture, time folds. 

pulling the trigger is a solo performance at the intersection of dance and physical theatre, created by Daria Titova and performed by Marko Šakić. The piece follows a soldier confronted with his own past - unable to fully face or escape it. Through movement, text, and voice, the work unfolds as an encounter with memory, responsibility, and the weight of choices that cannot be undone.

Moving between control and collapse, rupture and softening, stillness and explosion, the work asks what it truly means to “pull the trigger,” both literally and metaphorically, and whether we can ever understand the choices of those who do. 

previous performances:

AMSTERDAM FRINGE FESTIVAL 2026

  • Thursday, September 10

    19:00 & 21:00

  • Saturday, September 12

    16:00 & 19:00

Location: Mezrab

  • April 20th 2026 – Theater Utrecht, work in progress evening

DELFT FRINGE FESTIVAL 2026

  • May 27 - Opening night, Theater De VESTE / 19:30

  • May 29 - Kadmium / 20:00 & 22:00

  • May 31 - Sigarenfabriek / 14:00 & 16:00

  • June 4 - Kadmium / 20:00 & 22:00

CREDITS:

Concept, direction, choreography - Daria Titova 

Performance - Marko Šakić

Text - Aska Hayakawa

Music & sound design - Ilya Dziahel

Voice actor - Kristian de Carvalho

Costume design - Sarah Zechut

Dramaturgy - Hans Timmerman

Movement & voice coach - Katarzyna Sitarz

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