| Title (3) | File type | Publiseringsdato | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Review in Agderposten of Sampo Teater and Bikuben Musikkteater's production "Baal" (1987) | February 25, 1987 | Download | |
| Review in Klassekampen of Sampo Teater and Bikuben Musikkteater's production "Baal" (1987) | April 14, 1987 | Download | |
| Review in Morgenbladet of Sampo Teater and Bikuben Musikkteater's production "Baal" (1987) | April 9, 1987 | Download |
Baal
Baal (1987) was a theatre production by Sampo Teater and Bikuben Musikkteater, based on the play by Bertolt Brecht. Baal toured the county of Aust-Agder.
Mette Brantzeg directed it.
Hans Rønningen played the title role.
In mythology, Baal is a Syrian fertility god challenging Jahve. Brecht's Baal is a debauched, amoral libertine who devours female company of different kinds. He enjoys and takes advantage of the women, but he is never satisfied. Instead, he perishes from alcohol, anxiety and loneliness.
Information
(Objekt ID 17295)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | February 23, 1987 |
| Produced by | Sampo Teater, Bikuben Musikkteater |
| Based on | Baal by Bertolt Brecht |
| Audience | Adults, Youth |
| Number of events | 35 |
| Language | Norwegian |
| Keywords | Theatre, Drama, Musical theatre |
| Running period | February 23, 1987 |
Requirements to venue
| Minimum stage width | 7m |
| Minimum stage depth | 7m |
| Minimum stage height | 4m |
| Blackout | Yes |
SOURCES:
Anitta Suikkari's private archive, donated by Anitta Suikkari. 20.02.2009
Buresund, Inger and Anne-Britt Gran (ed.) (1996). Frie grupper og Black Box Teater (literally: Independent companies and Black Box Teater). 1970-1995. Oslo: ad Notam Gyldendal
Performing Arts Hub Norway, Performing Arts Hub Norway's catalogue for 1987, 09.12.2013
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Bertolt Brecht | – Playwright |
| Mette Brantzeg | – Direction |
| Mette Brantzeg | – Choreography |
| Kirsten Høegh | – Actor (Emily / Forteller m. fl.) |
| Roy Knudsen | – Actor (Eckart Mench m. fl.) |
| Tom Hugo Nielsen | – Actor (Johannes / Hybelvertinne m. fl.) |
| Tov Ramstad | – Actor (Piller / Louis m. fl.) |
| Hans Rønningen | – Actor (Baal) |
| Anitta Suikkari | – Actor (Ung sosietetsdame m. fl.) |
| April 10, 1987 – Store scene (Vika), Black Box teater | Show |
| April 9, 1987 – Store scene (Vika), Black Box teater | Show |
| April 8, 1987 – Store scene (Vika), Black Box teater | Show |
| April 7, 1987 – Store scene (Vika), Black Box teater | Show |
| April 6, 1987 – Store scene (Vika), Black Box teater | Show |
| April 5, 1987 – Store scene (Vika), Black Box teater | Show |
| April 4, 1987 – Store scene (Vika), Black Box teater | Show |
| February 23, 1987 – Nesheim skole | National premiere, Norway |
Therese Bjørneboe, April 14 1987, Review titled Røff og ren "Baal" (literally: Rough and pure Baal), Klassekampen [Oslo]:
"Brantzeg avoids boring her audience with overused fishnet stocking eroticism and other fetish wrapping. [...] Bikuben has made the music for the production, it is simple and raw, unmelodic and stamping - with certain exceptions. It is performed as contractions during labour. The play is built over images from the life of Baal, broken with songs, but the songs and scenes aren't dialectic in the "pedagogic" meaning of the word, like other Brecht plays. Rather they make an image stream, as part of the switching images with which Brecht circles around his main character. [...] Baal is no one-dimensional sex addict; he is as much a poet. He is insatiable hungry for life, and his relationship to love is, as the name implies, unchristian. [...] Baal holds nature as his religion [...]"
Writer unknown, February 25 1987, Review titled Norgespremiere, men bare for 20 (literally: Norwegian opening, but only for 20 persons), Agderposten:
"It has been made a captivating performance, sombre, but spiced with bizarre, comic episodes. [...] Despite some objections Bikuben Musikkteater has managed to create an exciting production deserving to be seen by far more than the 20 who came to see the opening in Nesheim School this Monday."
Trond Aglen, April 9 1987, Review title Black Box: Brecht på stille tomgang (literally: Brecht idling silently), Morgenbladet [Oslo]:
"Thanks to Hans Rønningen as the main character, the destructively life-enjoying poet Baal, the production is absolutely worth seeing. [...] A direction debutante Mette Brantzeg is not, there is no doubt there is a brain behind this production. [...] The will is there, but I miss the extra courage to make Baal's story even more cruel and naked and closer to 'the edge of a cliff'; the more expressive, less realistic form that Edwin Goll got close to, and that Artaud followed up upon, not Brecht."