Maria Christensen
Maria Christensen is a production by Turnékompaniet after a text by Cecilie Pran. With Maria Christensen Turnékompaniet and the writer aim to focus on the correlation between the patient/user needs and the competence/lack of competence in health care, plus the economic framework surrounding the complex issue. The one-act play can be performed independently, but it can also be used as a pretext for debate during seminars, for instance.
Information
(Objekt ID 1837)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | October 3, 2003 |
| Produced by | Turnékompaniet |
| Based on | Maria Christensen by Cecilie Pran |
| Audience | Youth, Adults (from 16) |
| Language | Norwegian |
| Keywords | Theatre, One-act Play |
| Running period | October 3, 2003 |
| Website | Danse- og teatersentrum |
Maria Christensen by Turnékompaniet is about mentally ill Maria. While the New Year’s fireworks explode she is thrown out crying from the hospital she has fought so hard to get into.
In the production Maria Christensen the audience follows Maria from she discovers her own need for help, through her meetings with a variety of doctors, until the police has her hospitalised. Maria says it in a simple enough manner: I don’t want medication. I want to be taken care of.
Source:
Performing Arts Hub Norway, 11.12.2010, http://www.danseogteatersentrum.no/sck/members.shtml?lang=nor&sam=&cat=&gen=&cou=&cri=Turnekompaniet&aid=52&prid=6&act=prod
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Cecilie Pran | – Playwright |
| Anders Kippersund | – Direction |
| Maria Løkken | – Stage design |
| Maria Løkken | – Costume design |
| Camilla Brandt | – Actor |
| Sarah Jaggi | – Actor |
| Jonas Kippersund | – Actor |
| Camilla Brandt | – Photo |
| Anders Kippersund | – Technician |
| Anders Kippersund | – Producer |
| October 3, 2003 | Opening night |
"In Maria Christensen Cecilie Pran manages the impossible; she lets us feel the emotions of a mentally ill person crashing into the wall of a completely rule-driven treatment apparatus."
Hamar Dagblad October 3 2003
"Splendidly acted!"
Gjøvik blad, October 16 2003