Photo: Emilia Therese
Line Paulsen has stepped out as director
This year's Christmas performance at Aarhus Teater is 'Julefeber' (Christmas Fever). A licensed story from DR. The dramaturgy is spiced up by Julie Petrine Glargaard, thank you. Good craftsmanship. Brought to the stage in Aarhus by Line Paulsen - good job, I think. 5 stars rating. The scenes work fine under her direction. Good rotating stage scenography by Mie Riis. The actors pull the sleigh with quick steps, more energy in the play than usual in the run up to Christmas at the theatre. Anders Baggesen impresses with his dark humor and flamboyant Hollywood charm, with more air in his chest. Mette Klakstein can also dance ballet, and we didn't know that - what do we get here? A fresh actor who can also dance ballet? She is a kinder egg. Lightly dancing Emil Busk Jensen has in a year or two conquered more of his core character. Cool. You can tell he's in character even when he's silent. Lots of humor.
But then, Line Paulsen has jumped out as a director, I think - she has been responsible for several performances at Aarhus Teater since 2018, but 'Christmas fever' is on a higher level, I think. The actors in this play have more depth, they get further down into the chest, abdomen and feet. That's my conclusion, it's much better. Thanks for that.
Anne Plauborg is her characters
I have for a long time been a fan of Anne Plauborg. In 'Christmas Fever', she expands her acting to the sublime, where she merges with her characters, she transforms into being them, lets go of her own blueprint. This season she is leaving the ensemble at Aarhus Teater. Moving after 8 years with the family to Copenhagen next summer. Go and see 'Christmas Fever' and play 'Find Plauborg', enjoy her humor and joie de vivre one of the last times at Aarhus Teater if you can find her. (Hint: Her character likes cakes, for example). Good wind, Plauborg - by the way, she is also in Lady Chatterley later in the season.
What do the children say about 'Christmas fever'?
There were an incredible number of children at the evening's performance. They're laughing. They love it. Now, I'm quite an adult myself, but it's a fun show, thinks my inner child. About becoming yourself when you are a child and hair starts to grow out of your ears. Gray tufts of hair in the ears! And your grandmother says you are a Christmas elf and she wants to knit you a magical hat. That's what it's like to be those 9-10-12-13 year old.
The main characters Bjørn and Gro have a sweet father who cannot manage his money. So in the run-up to Christmas, the two teenagers move in and live in the attic of Aarhus Theater because the father has let a criminal take over their apartment, due to a debt of DKK 11,700.
And no, it's not always tragic to be homeless at Christmas, sometimes fate is actually a nice cousin. Bjørn meets a young ballet dancer and they fall in love. Gro grows hair out of her ears and is transformed into an elf at a slightly too young age. Ballet children from Aarhus dance around (and they are good at Ballet Akademiet Aarhus), and Plauborg, Busk Jensen, and Baggesen have fun. There is singing and snow falling on the audience.
The snow is falling from the ceiling in Aarhus Teater!
Do you think kids find it funny? Worth gold. I make eye contact with the little guy with the very large bag of matador mix. He nods. Children have a sense of quality.
Christmas fever by Rune Schjøtt-Wieth, Natasha Arthy, Mette Eike Neerlin
Contributors Emil Busk Jensen, Mette Klakstein, Saga Guld/Mille West Rasmussen
Jannie Faurschou, Peter Høgsbro, Marie Marschner, Anders Baggesen, Anne Plauborg, Ask Berntsen, Emil Knutzon
Ballet children Ballet Akademiet Aarhus: Alberte Forslund Skovholm, Anna Hansen, Augusta Grau, Emily Rose Melgaard Christoffersen, Ida Raabyemagle Foged, Kamma Møllgaard Braad, Liva Sølgaard-Kyng, Lucy Antonie O'Leary
Staging Line Paulsen
Scenography & costume design Mie Riis
Dramatization Julie Petrine Glargaard
Choreography Ida Frost
Musik Nanna Øland Fabricius, Jesper Mechlenburg
Lighting design Anders Kjems
Sound design Lars Gaarde.
FAQ: What is the Christmas show at Aarhus Teater 2023?
'Christmas fever' is this year's Christmas show at Aarhus Teater. A story for the whole family. Staged by Line Paulsen. Dramatized by Julie Petrine Glargaard.
Ambiorn Happy, Kulturnyt.net
★★★★★★
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