Strindberg according to Munch
!bang presents
PLAY
STNDBRG
a tragedy turned comedy
Strindberg according to Munch
Manuscript loosely
based on F. Durrenmatts PLAY STRINDBERG (1968) which is again a
rewrite of A. Strindbergs DØDSDANSEN (1900). The classic
triangular drama is attacked and delivered with a sure feeling for
style and pace.
PRODUCED BY: !bang ACTORS: Trine Wiggen, Anders T. Andersen og Erik Ulfsby/ Jørgen Langhelle DIRECTOR: Anne Regine Klovholt DESIGN CONSULTATION: Camilla Martens SOUND DESIGN: Morten Pettersen LIGHTING DESIGN: Ingrid Tønder MUSIC: E. Grieg, J. Halvorsen, D. Byrne, The Clash VOICE: Christian Skolmen.
The
performance is adapted and produced by !bang, alias Klovholt and
Wiggen.
Duration: 50 min.
The performance opened 15.
September 1998 with the title SPILL STINDBERG, at the Black Box
Theatre in Oslo with guest performances at The theatre Garage in
Bergen early October same year. During spring 1999 it played at The
Theaterhouse Avant Garden in Trondheim and the Central Theatre
(placed under the City theater of Oslo). It was one of the main
features of the Festival Strindberg in Stockholm late August 1999. It
also toured A-level schools in the south of Norway during the autumn
of 1999.
The production is funded by a grant from The Norwegian Cultural Council, Fund for Performing Artists, The City of Oslo (department of culture), the Actors Guild of Norway, the Strinberg Society in Stockholm Sweden, and Norsk Scenekunstbruk (touring management). We are grateful for the support from and access to the facilities of The National Theatre of Norway by Artistic Director Ellen Horn.
Photo Ingrid Tønder
"Marriage
is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy."
Woody Allen
"...
when man and wife, which is usually the case, have taken on the
superficial commitment to spend all their lives together, only to
be hating each
other within two months, wanting a divorce but
staying together, that is
when all hell breaks loose. They drink,
shoot themselves, kill and
poison themselves and each other.''
Leo
Tolstoj “Anna Karenina”
Edgar
and Alice are leading an isolated life on a small island. Tonight the
island doctor is giving a party. The couple is not invited.
Edgar:
``They are a community of fools. Rabble!''
Alice: ``That is what
you say about all people''
Edgar: ``That is because all people
are.''
Alice: ``Apart from you.''
Thus
they are left to each others company in which they take on the roles
in their matrimonial play: The battle against eachother. Eventually
they have a visitor, Alices cousin Kurt. He is taken in with open
tentacles. Hence, the stage is set for an unforgetable evening, a
triangular drama of sorts. The couple take turns in conspiring with
Kurt in the battle against each other. All measures are fair in order
to reach that final round. But do they have the balls to go the
distance?
We have here
traditionally trained actors acting out their parts in the prevailing
theatrical form of psychological realism. In a naked room on-stage,
they act out their profession - prostitution and foul play.
Contact Anne Regine Klovholt, Ruseløkkvn 59b, 0251 Oslo, Norway Phone/Fax +47 22 83 80 14/ 22 83 80 69 Mobile 924 36 772 mailto: annek@pogosrtick.net