Verk Produksjoner | Norway


Glamorous Gothic cabaret about the meaning of life
The dead sit together and pass away the time. Or rather eternity. Is it the living who really count? Or themselves, the dead? They converse, tell each other stories of the past when they were still alive. Of what remains after hundreds or thousands of years in the nowhere of darkness: a broken heart, that one humiliation, that one moment of happiness. Verk Produksjoner's adaptation of the novel The eternal smile written by the Swedish Nobel prize winner Pär Lagerkvist won the Hedda Award for "best Norwegian performance of 2011". A powerful atmospheric sound collage conveys strange and intensive mood images from set pieces of the horror film, vaudeville, silent film and Black Romance genres. The young Norwegians follow Lagerkvist in his apprehensive questioning of the meaning of life and death with great sincerity without ever losing their sense of humour. This is a wonderfully macabre chamber of horrors full of grotesque humour that treats the big issues of life with laconic wit.

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Concept Fredrik Hannestad, Saila Hyttinen, Anders Mossling Text Pär Lagerkvist, Max Frisch Director Fredrik Hannestad Participants Anders Mossling, Fredrik Hannestad, Håkon Vassvik, Per Platou, Saila Hyttinen, Signe Becker, Solveig Laland Mohn, Tilo Hahn Co-produced by Black Box Teater
Sponsored by the Norwegian Embassy Berlin