first reactions

Dear Teater Aksen,

Just wanted to take a moment to congratulate you on the play! I have had some wonderful feedback! I realise that you have not had the exact audience reaction you thought you would get but I don’t believe there’s anything wrong with that. Matthew tells me people are leaving talking about what the hell they have just seen and during the interval there are a lot of confused people! I am pleased about this – what’s theatre if it’s not challenging and pushing the boundaries! I just hope you all know what a good play this is and how well you are doing it!

Some audience comments so far!....

“By far the best acting I have seen!”
“It’s either the worst or the best play I’ve seen – just trying to work it out!”
“The animal scenes were great – I didn’t quite understand the rest!”
“I thought I had just walked in on someone’s rehearsal!”
“I feel so emotional… and a little scared!”

You have sparked lots of discussion which is a huge compliment. We really have challenged the genre of theatre people are used to seeing here.

I also wanted to take the chance to say thank you again for putting so much effort and professionalism into this project. I know some of you are leaving the group and I thought I’d take this opportunity to wish you every success with where you are going! So, enjoy the last performance tonight – have a great celebration afterwards and have fun filming tomorrow.

Love you all!

Jill x

"R"EVOLUSJON

Revolusjon 2520flyer, originally uploaded by timaroundtheworld.

Ok, guys that's the play I'll be performing in. It's based on Animal Farm by George Orwell but there is more to it. In fact it's two plays in one and I reckon it is meant to be a comical tragedy about group processes and theater industry.

'R'EVOLUTION

collage, originally uploaded by timaroundtheworld.

Student Theatre Aksen will proudly present its performance "R"EVOLUTION on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday (19:00) and Saturday (18:00) this week. The play is based on Animal Farm by George Orwell but we worked hard to make it into something different.

Prices are 80Kr. (60Kr. for students/30Kr. for members of studentsamfunnet)

The play will be in Norwegian

The Lives of The Others

institution, originally uploaded by timaroundtheworld.

I wrote the following literary text as a consequence of an associative process after I had seen the movie "The Lives of the Others". A movie made in Germany that gives a face to the "STASI" (state security) in former East Germany. The english titel of my text would be "Walls we built/d"

Mauern die wir bau(t)en

Wir haben sie gebaut
ohne Fenster ohne Türen

Wir haben sie wieder eingerissen
Wofür haben wir sie wieder eingerissen

Wir haben keine Türen gehabt
Wir haben keine Fenster gehabt

Wir konnten sie nicht öffnen
Wir konnten sie noch nicht einmal sprengen

Wir haben sie nicht gehabt

Wir konnten sie einreisen
langsam und Stück für Stück konnten wir sie einreisen

Langsam und Stück für Stück sind wir unserem Gefängins entkommen
Langsam und Stück für Stück sind wir in unser Gefängnis hineingeraten

Aus der Abhängigkeit der Verantwortung anderer
in die Abhängigkeit der Unabhängigkeit der eigenen Verantwortung

Aus der wagen Sicherheit der Privilegien
in die absolute Sicherheti der Unsicherheit

Nichts mehr woran man glauben kann
Nichts mehr, wo gegen man rebellieren kann

Aus der Möglichkeit der Menschlichkeit
zur (un)möglichen Unmenschlichkeit

Entfernt von unserer Position
Entfernt von uns

Entfernt

Was bleibt ist Sein und Nichtsein
zum möglichen Dasein

Das sind wir
Da sind wir