DIRECTOR: Marcelino Martin Valiente
ACTOR: Rune Temte.
Anne Marie Rekdal: Senior scientific officer in Norwegian literature at the Advanced College in Volda.
The premiere is at the Advanced college in Volda February 2006.
On tour in the year of celebration 2006.
The Performance:
In an empty room stands eight tables next to each other and makes a platform, a new level. The audience sits around the outskirts of the room. A dress, a man’s coat and shoelaces are squeezed between the tables. A man lies under the tables; he starts to push them around. This is being done slowly and precisely. Sharp noises are being heard when the tables are moved and the clothes slid between the tabletops. The man starts to pull the clothes. He establishes a relationship with the clothes and the tables. The original image of the tables as pieces in a jigsaw is now finding new compositions and shapes with the aid of the pieces (the tables). After some time, a woman’s voice is heard on tape. The voice belongs to Anne Marie Rekdal, one of only five Norwegians with a doctorate in Ibsen. She has a conversation (on tape) with Rune Temte, the man in the room.
The stage room in “Document Ibsen” recreates, with the help of the 8 tables, a miniature stage. This is a way of saying that this is theatre, but also more specific that we are going to talk about the theatre as an object.
The props (shoes, coat, dress, tables…) are being used to signal the characters and situations. They are elements of the work of Ibsen. The actor will never take use of a prop to play a character. On the contrary he touches and moves with a distance, which means that he doesn’t get involved on a psychological level.
The actor is in the service of the objects. There isn’t always a connection between what happens on stage and what is said on tape or the images projected. It is up to the audience to create their own associations and connections between the various levels and activities.
Collaboration project/ plan of progress:
The performance is a result of a three days workshop in connection to “Prøvekluten”, a collaboration with Møre og Romsdal Fylkeskommune and the Advanced collage in Volda in the summer of 2004& 2005. They will also take part in the further development of the project. The performance is funded by “Fritt ord”, “Fond for utøvende kuntnere”, “Fond for lyd og bilde” and The Advanced College in Volda.
Project participants
Marcelino M. Valiente, director. He is also a dramatic adviser/ writer and an actor. Educated at the J.Lecoq international drama school in Paris and The drama school C. Dullin in Paris, as well as having taken part in numerous theatre- and movement workshops. In the autumn -98, he worked at “Det Norske Teater with the project “Open Stage”. In the spring-99, he toured around Norway with the performance “Forbudt men fristende” for the “Riksteateret”. He also directed the play “On the ball” and the dance piece “Breath” in 1999. At the “Sogn og Fjordane Teater” he has directed “Gjest Baardsen dies alone at the shore of the Nile” (2001), “Philantropicana” (2002), “More” (2004). For Temte Productions he has directed “Polar” and “Atopisk- in the wrong place” (2003/2004).
Anne Marie Rekdal , senior scientific officer in Norwegian literature at the Advanced Collage in Volda. She has long experience from teaching in both primary and secondary school as well as higher education. She has a doctorate in Ibsens contemporary literature. The books she has written on Ibsen are: “The dilemma of freedom, Ibsen read with Lacan” (Aschehoug 2000). “An involuntary glimpse of beauty. Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler” (Cappelen 2001). “The school’s ghost? An educational view on Ibsen”(Universitetsforlaget 2004).
Rune Temte, actor. Please see; rune.temte.no
Thea Glimsdal, costume/design – works as a tailor and costume designer. She has made all the costumes for the productions of Temte Productions. Please see. www.hotnok.no
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