2022 started with something new: I directed an adaptation of the novel  Sult by Knut Hamsun at Den Nasjonale Scene in Bergen, Norway! This was also the first work I have made in Norway since 2012, and the first time I adapted a novel for the stage.

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The performance portrayed a stream of consciousness shared by four actors, portraying an individual starving for food - but also for meaning, beauty and intimacy. 

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I chose this text because it's an opportunity to portray how language creates reality, and because it's such a transgressive, youthful text with both humour and dark emotions. I really enjoy how the BODY of the protagonist becomes an image of the WORLD he lives in!

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The work is something like an opera without singing, with the wide open mouth as the black hole we keep falling into. For me, it was a step towards a (new) concept of language opera.

 

Below you can see the trailer that we made with some material from the staging.

The premiere was on February 17th.

More info here