I remember/tread carefully

Josefine R. Narverud saw the performance "Treework" before the summer. "Treework" was described as an opera for the trees and the people and was performed in Østmarka outside Oslo. The performance gave a lot of room for one's own interpretations and thoughts. This text is a response to this invitation, written partly immediately after seeing “Treework” and partly a few months later.
Essay Opera Performing Arts

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?

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

Impressive storytelling

In the monologue performance "1969," Kate Pendry travels through present-day and childhood London, searching for answers and reconciliation. The audience is invited along, but must work to stay connected throughout.
Criticism Monologue Theatre