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Kurt Racks His Brain

Kurt racks his brain by Grenland Friteater:

The character of Kurt is known to many from Erlend Loe’s books. In Grenland Friteater’s performance about him, Kurt appeared with his forklift in a brand new performance for the whole family, located at Porsgrunn Mekaniske Verksted. The performance was held under the stars and after bedtime.

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(Objekt ID 1381)
Object type Production
Premiere June 12, 2007
Produced by Grenland Friteater
Based on Kurt Racks His Brain by Erlend Loe
Audience Children, Families (from 6)
Audience size 6272
Number of events 19
Language Norwegian
Keywords Theatre, Performance for children, Comedy, Physical theatre, Music, Site spesific performance
Running period June 14, 2006  —  June 20, 2007
Website Grenland Friteater
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Kurt has been working at the pier in Porsgrunn, under the yellow crane, for years. But no more boats are coming there, because there is a brand new pier next to it. Kurt (45) and his son Bud (2) are assigned to wash the containers. In one of the containers they find a band of people looking as if they’re from both here and there. They talk weirdly, too. And they dress strange. And pee for a long, long time.

The problems are mounting for Kurt. But falls in love with Fatima, a girl on his own age, and Kurt becomes jealous of Rashid, who is educated at the Royal Truck Driver Academy in Bangladesh and who is more than well-liked by Kurt’s wife Anne-Lise. Then Kurt is fired. The King himself will come to visit. But the one to think that the King will fix things can be disappointed. Because the King is focusing mostly on eating hot dogs and cutting ribbons. But then big things begin to happen . . . real big things.

Grenland Friteater turned 30 years in 2007 and celebrated the occasion by presenting the largest family performance in the history of Telemark. 35 people participated onstage and backstage, two trucks and a historical 40 ton crane was among the ingredients. Grenland Friteater also offered Russian electronic, truck tricks, bucketfuls of Erlend Loe humour, swinging accordions and a colourful bunch of actors hungry to act. During the break, royal hot dogs were for sale.

Sources:

Grenland Friteater, grenlandfriteater.com, 29.07.2010, http://www.grenlandfriteater.com/show_details.asp?ID=1058

Porsgrunn International Theatre Festival, pit.no, 29.07.2010, http://2006.pit.no/vis_tstykke.asp?tID=74

Contributors (18)
Name Role
Erlend Loe – Script
Lars Vik – Adapted by
Lars Vik – Direction
Geddy Aniksdal – Actor (Bud)
Even Bolstad – Actor
Malin Bratlie – Actor (Gudny)
Anne-Sophie Erichsen – Actor (Anne-Lise)
Olav Hanto – Actor (Los)
Joakim Dan Jørgensen – Actor (Rashid)
Guandaline Sagliocco – Actor (Fatima)
Terje Sødal – Actor (Kåre)
Lars Steinar Sørbø – Actor (Kurt)
Tor Arne Ursin – Actor (Nabo)
Tobias Vik – Actor
Agnar Ribe – Technician
Hans Petter Eliassen – Producer
Hans Georg Andersen – Consultant (Scenografisk konsulent)
Hans Petter Eliassen – Other
Performance dates
June 20, 2007 Show
June 19, 2007 Show
June 18, 2007 Show
June 17, 2007 Show
June 16, 2007 Show
June 14, 2007 Show
June 13, 2007Porsgrunn Mek Verksted Show
June 12, 2007Porsgrunn Mek Verksted New opening
June 21, 2006Porsgrunn Mek Verksted Show
June 20, 2006Porsgrunn Mek Verksted Show
June 19, 2006Porsgrunn Mek Verksted Show
June 18, 2006Porsgrunn Mek Verksted Show
June 17, 2006Porsgrunn Mek Verksted Show
June 15, 2006Porsgrunn Mek Verksted Show
June 14, 2006Porsgrunn Mek Verksted Show
June 13, 2006Porsgrunn Mek Verksted Show
Festivals (1)