THE
OCTOBER TRILOGY (1993)
VERDENSTEATRET
was in 1993 finishing the work with the "October triology".
This work started in 1990, with "Wednesday 13th of October" and continued
in 1992, with "Thursday 14th of October", and brought to a close in 1993 with
"Friday 15th of October".
Each
part has been shown seperatly in different places in Norway, and in other
European countries such as Finland, Germany, France, Portugal, Spain.
The parts has also been shown together.
Part
1: Wednesday
the 13th of October (1990)
Subtitle: "I would very much like to tell you a story that
is often in
my mind, but which I have forgotten."
The
setting is an abstract installation/sculpture containing a rectangular platform
with a pool and a backwall of constantly running water.
This gives an (over) aesthetic surface contrasted by the brutality of the
performers.
Music
is composed specially for the performance by the Norwegian composer Rune Rebne.
The text is taken from: M. Duras, H.B. Tristam, C. Bukowski and Cecilie Løveid.
Consept: Lisbeth J.Bodd, Asle Nilsen
Director: Lisbeth J.Bodd
Stage design: Asle Nilsen/ Petter Steen
Choreographer: Anne Gjems
Composer: Rune Rebne
Light Design: Petter Steen
Performers:
Anne Gjems, Corinne Campos, Manolo Canteria, Karstein Solli,
Eugene Janpolsky, Marius Kjos.
Part
2: Thursday
the 14th of October
(1992)
Subtitle: "One must be alone and free from all human contact
if one wish to embark upon an intellectual task."
This
performance is more based on text and has less dance-sequenses than the first
part. The
performance takes up questions regarding art and the artists (August Strindberg).
It is performed with much humour and irony. The
setting is dominated by a huge landscape-painting, and the entire room has
an atmosphere of a museum.
The
text is from: A.Strinberg, T.Bernhard, S.Beckett, V.Baird.
Music: Yma Sumac
Performers:
Manolo Canteria, Bo Christer Wahlstrøm, Vanessa Baird, Håkon Hegnar,
Alesandra Boguslawski, Corinne Campos, Helge Fromreide, Anne Gjems,
Roger Wahl.
A
co-production between: Verdensteatret, Bergen International Theatre and Black
Box Theatre, Oslo.
Part
3:
Friday
the 15th of October (1993)
This
production again contains elements of playing with theatrical conventions.
As in the other two parts it contains bittersweet irony, brutality, humour
as well as visual beauty. The
text is performed both directly and sometimes pharaphrased over and commented.
The performers alterntate from reading, making digressions, to private stories
more in the manner of "stand- up comedy".
The dramaturgy is based on musical composition rather than a literary.
The various music is mixed by Verdensteatret with Handels cantata "Lucretia"
as the main theme.
The dance-sequenses are a violent mixture of different techniques.
The texts are from: T.Bernhard, H. Ibsen, Shakespeare, Almodovar and Puccini
(La Boheme)
Artistic
responsible: Lisbeth J. Bodd, Asle Nilsen
Light/Sound: Petter Steen, Jean Vincent Kerebel
Choreography: Verdensteateret
Performers: Corinne Campos, Manolo Canteria, Vanessa Baird, Khawar Sadeq,
Håkon Hegnar,
Alexandra Bugoslawski.
A
Co-production between Verdensteatret, Bergen International Theatre and Black
Box Theatre, Oslo.