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 criticism written by youth.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Kallocain – a love letter to art
THE CHOSEN ONES? A bit cocky, but absolutely right, writes Jørgen Cleve Broch about Kallocain.
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.
Radio Theatre returns to Lier Cultural Center
A children's performance, developed for the visually impaired, shows how the uniqueness of radio theater can be transferred to the stage.