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.
Theater
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.
Axel's little criticism crisis
What is the role of critics in the world of theatre? Aksel August has pondered this throughout the Hedda Festival – and life in general.
A reckoning 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?
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.
A sitcom on stage
The hours fly by because of good humor and storytelling, writes Filip Jørgensen (16) about The Spanish Fly.
A love poem from a street boy
Oliver Lovrenski's "When We Were Younger" evokes laughter, nostalgia and sadness at Det Norske Teatret.
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.