Martefaen

De Utvalgte was founded in 1994 and originally consisted of a core group of actors who had completed their acting training at the Nordic Theatre School in Aarhus. The actors are trained in the tradition of physical theater. Today, De Utvalgte's permanent ensemble consists of Jon Birger Wormdahl, Randi Rommetveit, Torbjørn Davidsen, Boya Bøckmann and Kari Holtan. Kari Holtan has directed De Utvalgte's two most recent productions, including Jimmy Young, which is now touring Norway. De Utvalgte works with the interaction between video, music and stage actors. What characterizes their work is the play with opposites, with roles and identities and with fiction and fact. They mix genres and expressions and the deeply tragic is also deeply comical in their harassment of their own and others' inadequacy.Martefaen is a theater documentary about self-harm. One in ten young people between the ages of 16 and 24 self-harm one or more times. Why do they do it? And who are they? are questions that are explored in the performance. On stage we meet Pelle and Marte in dialog. Marte who has injured herself for 8 years. Through her own texts, images and music, she talks about a youth characterized by severe mental pain.