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★★★★★Review of 'The Girl With the Hurricane Brain', Teatret Svalegangen
Are you ready to die? With a drink in front of you?
14. august 2024.Kulturnyt, Ambiorn Happy
Review: 'The Girl With the Hurricane Brain'. It's a 5 stars rating to the opera 'The Girl With the Hurricane Brain' at Teatret Svalegangen. Thanks for the costumes, music, singers, direction and story. I am impressed by the professional level of the performance by all 14 participants (including the conductor). It was even touching. It's painful to have a hurricane brain, we get that.
Don't read my review because I don't know nothing about opera. Can barely understand the words in an English pop song (the opera is in English). But on the other hand, I have seen John Wayne on German TV in the 5th grade, 2 years before we got a German teacher, so I understand everything without being able to understand the language. Thank you, ZDF.
The story - starring the soprano Peyee Chen, and I don't understand the words she sings - is about pain, fear, anxiety in the last 1 hour and 20 minutes of our voyage on the Titanic. Okay, I recognize "climate", "horse", and "changes". But it's not much out of a libretto of 34 pages.
Peyee Chen is in the role of the little girl who personally feels the iceberg approaching. She is unhappy. She howls and torments her parents. They don't understand her. Do their work. Grinds coffee from morning to night. And the kid howls and cries and shouts.
I feel for those parents - Ted Schmitz and Jessica Aszodi. If I stood on the deck of the Titanic in freezing weather, I didn't go into the howling choir either. As we crash into the side of the iceberg, I'd rather sit at the bar. Asks for a whiskey and smiles charmingly at the nearest woman.
This is how we are different. The end of the world cannot be stopped. The Incas went down. The Egyptians. The Greeks. The Indians. The Romans. Yes, even the Vikings had to give up.
All highly developed cultures end in collapse!
Is our culture highly developed? Yes, I think so. Our fate is sealed. Doom awaits!
The wise can predict the future. On stage, Joseph Bolger is smart. He looks at the patterns, he sees the development. He lets the girl know how bad it looks.
So the girl tries to convince the parents to stop their coffee grinder and do something! Just something! Stop death! Stop climate change! Stop grinding coffee! Don't buy more electric cars. Buy no more at Temu! Just stop!
But she has a hard time convincing the parents. 20% of us buy cheap junk on Temu.com - manufactured with devastating consequences for the environment. We get it shipped home on container ships from Maersk, with devastating consequences for the environment. We play with it and throw it out. Such is our life. Who wants to turn off the internet 9 months out of the year? Who will stop consuming, just to save our common Titanic?
And, it is not actually ordinary people who steer the ship. It's something... It's culture. All cultures bloom, bear fruit, and perish when winter comes.
Or what?
You can look forward to the costumes in 'The Girl With the Hurricane Brain'. The clothes are sewn from parchment - skin skinned from an animal approximately one meter long. Probably pigskin. The clothes are sewn nicely. That's what we're all about. Fashionable clothes on the Titanic.
Those who understand opera say the singers sing skillfully.
There is a 9-person symphony orchestra in the performance. 3 strings, 3 wind instruments, percussion, guitar and grand piano. The music is abstract - not melodic - symbolic.
Many young people go out of balance in this time. Like the girl in the play, they listen to the prophets who preach doomsday. There is much to be afraid of. Personally, it doesn't matter to me. We have to die of something. There is no telling which will come first.
Line 2A in a pedestrian crossing. New corona. Plague. Putin in Ecco shoes drops an atomic bomb in Aarhus Harbour. The Gulf Stream shifts and the climate in Denmark becomes cold like northern Finland, and I hate cross-country skiing. Someone continues to use 4 times our resources and our world is slowly and surely burning down.
It ends with us dying. That's what this opera says, and it's true. But until that happens, I'm happy to meet the little grandmother in Rema on the way home from the theater.
- There are 5 kroner missing, says the man behind the till in a sad voice.
The woman speaks Greenlandic, I can see that in her. Her eyes are strong and alive, her skin has had a lot of sun, on the edge of the inland ice.
- You can get a fiver from me, here!
The woman smiles wholehearted. - Thank you, that was a good deed, she tells me.
- You are welcome, I reply.
We smile at each other, late at night in Rema. Just like that, heart to heart. That's how I want to go down with my ship.
Thank you for the experience. It was good.
'The Girl With the Hurricane Brain'
Performance review
★★★★★Anmeldelse: 'Kongens Fald', Aarhus Teater
Anmeldelse: 'Kongens Fald' er en spektakulær opvisning i Scenografi
10. januar 2019.Kulturnyt, Ambjørn Happy
Teater Tableau. En lille scene med noget lækkert for øjet. Overskueligt og smagfuld. Sådan er scenografien i Kongens Fald. Der er regnvejr, en halvnøgen kvinde hængt op i fødderne, store videokulisser, mere vand, folk der er ved at drukne i et gennemsigtigt bur af plexiglas, et skib til søs, en mand hænger sig, snevejr, heste lavet af menneskekroppe. Kongens Fald er flot.
Æstetisk scenografi, og en historie der blev væk i første aktJeg er glad for en god historie, så det tog mig nok det meste af første akt at se bort fra, at instruktøren Carlus Padrissa i store træk lader scenografien spille hovedrollen, fremfor at fokusere mere traditionelt på historien, skrevet af Johannes V. Jensen.
Jeg havde visse indkøringsvanskeligheder i mit stolesæde.
"Det er æstetisk", sagde en af de øvrige publikummer i pausen. En kvinde. En ældre fyr nikkede til hende. "Ja, men det er som om historien er blevet væk", svarede han. Hun var enig. Det er jeg også. Det er scenografien i Kongens Fald der giver den største oplevelse på Aarhus Teater.
Og det er vel okay? Vi er vant til at scenografien støtter op om stykket. Hvorfor ikke lade scenografien træde frem på scenen og være selve hovedpersonen?
Jeg kan godt lide den tanke. Som eksperiment.
Så, du skal gå ind og se Kongens Fald fordi scenografien styrer showet. Det ser godt ud. Det er smukt.
Undervejs vil du nyde Maria Rossing som historiefortælleren der binder de mange scener sammen. Hun har valgt en rolig og nøgtern stil, men viser sin styrke med en meget fin og moduleret stemme. Særdeles behagelig.
Akrobaterne er dygtige. Smidige. Musikken er god, består mest af en violin - men det er en dejlig violin der træder frem på scenen som om den var en af de medvirkende.
Der er også lidt sjov og humor, men mest sat på som special effekt - det er sjældent den spiller sammen med karakterne og handlingen. Og skræk er der - en kvinde har bedrevet hor og bliver overfaldet på scenen og spyttet på. Meget ubehageligt, men igen ude af synk med handlingen, en special effekt.
Scenografien har hovedrollenKongens Fald som tableau, opspændt i en flot scenografi, fyldt ud med dramatiske effekter. Det er godt lavet, det er 5 stjerner. Scenografien sejrer stort blandt publikum. Uden den ville der kun stå en enkelt stjerne tilbage, Maria Rossing.
Kongens Fald
Dramatisering Henrik Szklany
Iscenesættelse & Scenografi Carlus Padrissa
Kostumedesign Karin Betz
Lysdesigner Ulrik Gad
Medvirkende Joen Højerslev,
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Miklos SzaboKongens Fald i billed-orgie, Aarhus Teater
Kongens Fald opføres i et eksplosivt orgie af farverige billeder på Aarhus Teater
24. december 2018.Kulturnyt, Ambjørn Happy
Aarhus Teater har sammen med Det Kongelige Teater skabt et orgie af visuel kraft som aldrig er set tidligere i Kongens Fald. Maleriske tableauer, nøgne kroppe, video-bagprojektioner, drabelige scener med blodbad, et totalteater - af nogle anmeldere betragtet som tegneserieagtigt, og af andre hyldet som genialt. Tjek det ud for dig selv, og se hvad du mener om den storslåede forestilling.
Kongens Fald er en saftig fortælling skrevet af Johannes V. Jensen. Der er godt med drama, erotik, henrettelser, vold og ømhed i historien. Johannes V. Jensen fik Nobelprisen i litteratur i 1944 og er således en af de få danskere forfattere der er anerkendt ude i den store verden
Derfor er det også passende at instruktøren på forestillingen, Carlus Padrissa, og dramatikeren, Henrik Szklany, begge er udlændinge for at vise os skønheden i den globale og eviggyldige historie Johannes V. Jensen skabte.
Kongens Fald Johannes V. Jensen
Dramatisering Henrik Szklany
Iscenesættelse & Scenografi Carlus Padrissa
Kostumedesign Karin Betz
Lysdesigner Ulrik Gad
Medvirkende Joen Højerslev, Maria Rossing, Lila Nobel, Mikkel Becker Hilgart, Peter Christoffersen, Anne Plauborg, Jens Andersen, Alvin Olid Bursøe, Janus Elsig m.fl.
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