Mannen Med En Blomst i Munnen

The Man with a Flower in His Mouth begins with two men who meet each other for the first time in a dimly lit café. They get to talking about seemingly mundane things, but an eeriness slowly creeps in. A woman appears, provoking bitter confessions and piquant revelations.Apart from "Six people seeking a writer", it is rare to see texts by Luigi Pirandello performed on Norwegian stages. The driving force behind d-moor productions, Jørn Riegels Vimpel, has now returned to Norway after a few years in Italy and established his own company. He brings with him a translation of Pirandello's short play "The Man with a Flower in His Mouth" from 1923, The One-Act Play is presented as a compressed theater piece where you can really touch and feel Pirandello's unique existentialism. The production is directed very stylistically and we encounter a universe that can only unfold on a stage. The situation is clear: it's a love triangle with one woman and two men. The dialog is natural, but it could never have taken place. Nevertheless, the play points to life as we know it in real life. From Pirandello's hand, it is an allegory that both opens a door to the glaring, trivial life of a single situation and reflects a larger, incomprehensible course of life. Vimpel and d-moor have staged the text as a glimpse into this. They unravel Pirandello's threads through dark and ambivalent moods, within a clean frame with clear contrasts.