Criticism

I felt like giving a hug.

When theatre succeeds, you forget you're sitting in an auditorium, and this happens from the first line to the last applause in Anna Breaks. With a good balance between seriousness and humour, this becomes a theatre experience that is both engaging and touching.

Criticism Monologue Theatre

Festival Editorial Team, The Market for Music and Performing Arts

I wanted to dance along!

This concert is music, dance and theater all in one. Many of the dances are still in my body. 

Criticism Dance Concert

Festival Editorial Team, The Market for Music and Performing Arts

Man in knee-length pants as a headbanger?

Gangar strikes with a fantastic mix of Norwegian folk music and updated rock. Gangar shattered my very high expectations, and reminded me that in music and art, anything is possible.

Criticism Festival Editorial Team Concert

Festival Editorial Team, The Market for Music and Performing Arts

Quiet but hysterical

Walking into a room with an expectation of what the next 40 minutes will be like, and then walking out with a completely different experience, is a strange feeling. That's what happened with "Troll." 

Criticism Festival Editorial Team Clown

Festival editorial team, Market for music and performing arts

Vulnerable

At first, Infinite Life seemed like something I could have done in my middle school art class. But without realizing it, I find myself sitting there with tears in my eyes, making eye contact with the actors on stage.

Criticism Theatre

Gaia Prestø Nielsen (19 years old)

Peer Perez Øian's first act is a masterpiece!

Thorbjørn Harr creates a playful and nuanced character study, where the music opens up for an unexpectedly vulnerable Peer Gynt. But it seems as if the first and second acts were directed by two different people.

Criticism Theatre

Fiona Åtland (20 years old)

A showdown with forgiveness

Is forgiveness something brave and beautiful, or a commodity that must be traded when you have nothing else? Who benefits from it? The one who forgives or the one who is forgiven?

Criticism Theatre

Lasse Seltun-Thingstad (18 years old)

Warm exploration of the imagination

DIY that really works, the primal child and a tribute to the imagination. Young voices have seen this year's performance at the Summer Theatre, by the second class at the Theatre Academy.

Criticism Conversation Podcast Theater

Lasse (18 years old) , Vilde (19 years old)

Interesting…

Unconventional, interactive, nerve-wracking; I find it difficult to choose the perfect word to describe “The Court” - but maybe the show wasn't meant for me?

Criticism Dance

Hiwet Yohannes (19 years old)