Photo: Louise Herrche Serrup
The art of flying, or diving into a death spiral
The show begins with slow movements on the floor. Good music. Next follows a video projection that explains the turbulence we experience when we fly (or just go down to the grocery store and live our life). Then follows an insight into psychiatry. Electric shock and chemical straitjackets. Finally the death spiral. The plane - or the person - spiraling towards the ground because we can't follow the right path. We repeat our mistake. All the way down because we don't know any better.
That's the way it is. With everything from corruption, drunk driving, low self-esteem, bad morals, burglary and so on. We don't stop on our own, until the police grab us and drive us straight to prison, or to a mental institution.
The audience is divided into 2 camps
Well. 'The Weather Report' is a well created performance with video, sound and music, stroboscopes and 3 performers. A 4 stars rating. It's good work.
But the audience in the theater at Bora Bora is divided into two camps, and that is a problem. I think. One camp cheers and screams for at least 7-8-9 stars. The other camp looks at the clock, 10 times an hour and seems confused. 2 stars? I doubt the other camp can get all the way up there. Maybe a single duty star?
This piece is made as a call. Like a scream in the dark that demands that the audience humble themselves, sit still, listen and accept the pain. It is problematic. I think. There is more to life than pain.
A scream of pain from the bottom of the well
There is no better news than people falling into a well. Children, old wives and young girls. We love people who fall into the well.
- And who are rescued back up again!
I can hear the pain, the screams from the bottom of the death pit. The loneliness. The depression. The madness. The abuse of psychiatry. People's indifference. 'The Weather Report' depicts the pain of being crazy. My own mind is also quite crazy, but I always have a red Superman cape in my coat pocket. I think we should save each other when we hear the cry from the bottom of the well. On that point, 'The Weather Report' is a disappointment.
There is no rescue possible in 'The Weather Report'. The characters are gripped by despair, hopelessness, powerlessness. I understand them.
But I think next time - Jon R. Skulberg - you will do 'The Weather Report - 2'. Just for my sake, and for those in the room at Bora Bora who need solutions, ways out, hope and optimism. And if you need a red Superman cape, call me. I bought a pallet of them in China. They cost nothing. Being brave is the only thing in life that is free. It is the anxiety and doubt that costs us dearly. Braveness is always free.
Thank you for the show. It was good.
The Weather Report
Cast Kenzo Kusuda, Christine Sollie, Josephine Kylén Collins
Stage director, scenography, lighting design Jon R. Skulberg
Composer Kristian Hverring
Composer Julie Østengaard
Video designer Magnus Pind
Costume Designer Kit Wan.
Ambiorn Happy, Kulturnyt.net
★★★★★★
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