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Posted by Øystein Ulsberg Brager
on October 11, 2008, 19:08:51
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Norway.Today
Southwark Playhouse
14 & 15 November 2008 at 7:30
By Igor Bauersima
Translated by Marlene Norst
In a new adaptation by Imploding Fictions
Directed by Øystein Ulsberg Brager and Philip Thorne
The award winning norwegian director Øystein Ulsberg Brager presents a beautiful and innovative production of Igor Bauersima's "Norway.Today" at Southwark Playhouse on the 14th and 15th November. Produced by the international theatre company Imploding Fictions, the production won the Young Angels Theatremakers Award 07/08. The production is on at Southwark Playhouse for two nights only as part of Company of Angels' Theatre Café Festival.
The play tells the story of Julie and August who meet through an internet chat room and make a suicide pact. Laden with backpacks, a tent and a camcorder they arrive at the foot of a desolate and wintry cliff in the Norwegian wilderness and begin the steep ascent. A tale about a paradoxical will to die and a passion to live.
Since the company was formed in London in 2007, Imploding Fictions has already worked in Serbia, Norway, Egypt, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands.
www.implodingfictions.com
Tickets for Norway.Today can be purchased from www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk.
"I found the piece refreshing and exciting. The writing was of a high standard and the flow from a couple who were preparing to die to that same couple finding new ways to live was optimistic and beautifully arranged. The writing was subtle but had its own poetry and rhythm and the translators/adaptors should be congratulated. I thought the use of multi media complemented the action in an authentic and innovative way. The piece was beautifully and sensitively directed and stayed with me for a long time."
Dinos Aristidou
(Arts Council England South East)
"I was moved to see such a delicate and relevant topic for teenagers being dealt with in an incredibly sensitive way. I want to congratulate the team on creating a piece of boundary-pushing theatre (...)."
Claire Shenton
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