Author: lensherra

Title of performance: ShabbanaTheatre Group: Te-NordCountry: NorwayDirector: Mara AcantalicioPlaywright: Sonia Mona DinDate and time: Wedensday August 11. / 14.00-14.50 Synopsis: Shabbana is a young girl who wants to get an education. Her mother supports her but her father dreams of her marrying. Cousin Rehan comes for a visit from Pakistan. Is he the chosen one? Shabbana’s father is happy to have one more member of the family in Norway. But what are Shabbana’s wishes? The play is set in one of Oslo’s suburbs and is accentuated by song and dance scenes in typical Te-nord...

Title of performance: Havgird (Oceanized)Theatre Group: Royndin Country: Faroe IslandsDirector:  Ágústa SkúladóttirPlaywright: Theatre Group Royndin Date and time: Wednesday August 13. / 16.00-17.00Somewhere – in the ocean – there live four people.Every day, every second they face the challenge of killing time.One day a new member of the ocean arrives; true love arises with all the upheaval, laughs and fears that affects them all. Apart from one, the oldest creature of them all.She has been in the ocean longer than time and uses the ancient Inuit Tale of the SKELETON WOMAN to bring the stubborn lovers together.This is a...

Title of performance: Dunkel ParadeTheatre Group: Dunkelfolket Country: DenmarkDirector: Katrine FaberPlaywright: Larry Hunt, Katrine Faber, Kirsten Gitz and Dunkelfolket Date and time: Friday August 13. / 14.00-15.30 About the performance: Dunkelfolket consists of up to 35 trained mask performers of both genders and with a wide ranged age and social class. They portray different sides of the human nature through direct face-to-mask contact with the spectators in a mutual creating process. There will be magical, shocking, funny and insane situations as Dunkelfolket passes through town. They will enter the areas where people reside both disturbing and expanding the reality...

Title of performance: Laveurs de Cerveaux (Washers of Brains)Theatre Group: I´Asse du coinCountry: FranceDirector: Gilles Grazilly Playwright: Matei Visniec Date and time: Thursday August 12, 14.00 – 14.55Say “ficelle”! go on … say “ficelle”!,  … it’s so easy … say “ficelle” and everything will go better, …say “ficelle”! Or anything else, its matters little, but say it!! The absurd and fantastic theatre by Visniec recall us the Ionesco’s one, where words find a meaning only after a tireless repetition, in borderline situations where actors are alternatively victims or oppressors. This society, where you must say “ficelle”, where you must...