"Just a show," yet so real

A performance where the distinction between acting and reality disappears for a few hours, goosebumps rise and all the senses are triggered.
Criticism Interactive Walking Theatre

A sitcom on stage

The hours fly by because of good humor and storytelling, writes Filip Jørgensen (16) about The Spanish Fly.
Criticism Farce Theatre

A love poem from a street boy

Oliver Lovrenski's "When We Were Younger" evokes laughter, nostalgia and sadness at Det Norske Teatret.
Criticism Theatre

Pitch-dark depictions of our most helpless sides

Morten Espeland makes Melancholia II an almost unbearably strong experience. But when the form is repeated in Melancholia I, the performance loses some of its mystery.
Criticism Performing Arts

The central revue – a Wiener with everything

Young Voices critic Jørgen Cleve Broch and mentor and critic Per Christian Selmer-Anderssen went to the Centralrevyen for the premiere. After the performance, they sat on the outdoor terrace at Fuglen and talked about what they had seen. The sound was poor due to drunk men in the background and poor technique, so here is an edited transcript in text form.
News Conversation Revue

The world's best circus, failing theater

What can I, a young man at the beginning of my adult life, get out of Pippi at the circus? Asks Aksel August Ruud Raustøl.
Criticism Musical Theatre Nysirkus Theatre

I thought: boring

Arne Lygre's new play "Give Me Your Hand" tries to be a humorous family drama, but even though the actors are good, it doesn't work well when the play is boring.  
Criticism Theatre

Between theater magic and self-therapy

Meliorism will accommodate everything: heartbreak, fathers, loneliness, emergency supplies and the meaning of life. Not everything works, but when the performance hits the mark, it feels as if someone has taken the mind of a 19-year-old and laid it out straight on the stage floor.
Criticism Theatre

Young voices choose their festival favorite during the Hedda Awards ceremony

During this year's Heddadager, the performing arts will be given a very special look: A special youth jury will watch the entire festival program and choose their favorite. The initiative comes from the Norwegian Theatre and Orchestra Association (NTO), which has invited Scenekunstbruket to put together a jury from Young Voices.
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Smile at the world, maybe it will smile back.

The Central Revue gives us smiles, laughter and sausages, but gets lost in the meeting between the revue and the theater.

Pippi's spectacular trick

"Pippi at the Circus" is an hour and a half of good humor, catchy music and wild circus tricks!
Criticism Nysirkus Theatre

Kallocain – a love letter to art

THE CHOSEN ONES? A bit cocky, but absolutely right, writes Jørgen Cleve Broch about Kallocain.
Criticism Theatre

The playwright behind Prima Facie takes on a new challenge

In “Inter Alia,” former attorney Suzie Miller shows that abusers can come from all types of families.
Criticism Theatre