AKADEMIET FOR SCENEKUNST, FREDRIKSTAD, 2015

Bernard Maria Koltes’ text is a night-time odyssey through the underbelly of the city by a man trying to make sense of his life and outsider status as a foreigner. In the inhospitable city, he must cast himself upon the kindness of strangers. The soliloquy goes on and on until the words empty themselves and in the end there is nothing else to do than pull the tongue out of the mouth, and dance with oneself. Staged in a white cube with theatre curtains on the outside of the windows the performance deals with alienation and listlessness and the audience is addressed directly making them the silent other.

Performance in collaboration with Freya Sif Hestnes og Anders Tougaard, based on M. S. Koltes' text Night Just Before the Forests.

Photo by: Bård Halvorsen, 2015