Dance, laughter and an honest cause 

The show starts with three girls having a girls' night where more and more people show up until it becomes a big party. We then see them drinking and enjoying themselves and getting very drunk, and several also end up taking drugs in the form of pills and powder. Two boys start dancing together before they end up on top of each other and one kisses the other. This was seen as weird and after that the boy who was kissed went way over the line to prove that he wasn't gay.

The music they chose was great and really suited all the different emotions they showed on stage. We felt that every minute of the music was carefully planned for us to get the most out of the experience. The audience was helped by the music to put themselves in the right perspectives to get the feeling that we were present. The rhythms highlighted the dancers and made everything much more alive, even when there was no singing in the background.

"The dancers were incredibly good at showing their emotions through body language. Both the background dancers and the front dancers were fantastic at dancing, and they moved easily across the stage. The front dancers came across as experienced actors and took us on a journey to the dark corners of parties. Even though the background dancers were youngsters, they acted very mature on stage. What we found really interesting was that the background dancers were young people from the local community.

When all is said and done, we all enjoyed this performance very much because it promotes an important and often taboo topic. It takes a lot to create a show like this, and not least to perform it, because it's a very shadowy topic. Everyone involved did a fantastic job and we felt that our expectations were met. There was always something new on stage to look at, and several stories were shown in the background, such as some girls crying in the bathroom.

All three of us agree that this show is suitable for our age group and above, to show new partygoers what you're getting into, and give parents a little heads up. To be able to get the most out of the show, you need to have a slightly more mature outlook on life, and not still have a "toddler view".

Written by Maria (15), Caroline (15) and Heidi (14), Markedet for scenekunst 2023. 

Photo: Lars Opstad

This party was also reviewed by Unge stemmer på Showbox in 2021 by Daria (15)