Opening Night (with Black Box teater), 2021
Scenography for Opening Night by Verk Produksjoner. Black Box teater. NO
Description
One of my first theatre educators told me that it is the idea about the theatre itself that makes the theatre so important. It is the ideas that make people gather, and if the idea is strong enough, we are willing to sacrifice a lot.
We had a desire to go back to the starting point, to the theatre itself, to the idea of the theater. We ask ourselves: what was it about theater? Why is it important? What is the fascination? The humiliations? And why exactly theatre? What is it, Theatre.
“In the theater there is a kind of strange sun. A light of abnormal intensity, where it seems that the difficult, and even the impossible, suddenly becomes our normal element.»
Antonin Artaud
With
Håkon Mathias Vassvik, Saila Hyttinen, Fredrik Hannestad, Solveig Laland Mohn, Per Platou, Anders Mossling. Text dramaturge: Runa Skolseg. Light technician/ Scenography assistent: Felipe Osorio-Guzmán. Producer: Pernille Mogensen.
Supported by
Co-production
Photographer
Vegard Kleven
Materials/Dimensions
15 x 150 W led strobe flood lights, 8 x 75 W led fresnels (tunable white), black cables, 8 lamp tripods, aluminium frame structure of 2 tripods + truss (dimensions 4,65 m x 12 m), black velvet, off white vinyl (3 m x 3 m)