Morning and Evening
Digital version
Morning and Evening. Digital version (2020) was a digital theatre production by Det Vestnorske Teateret. Morning and Evening. Digital version was based on a novel by Jon Fosse, in a theatrical adaptation by Hildegun Riise. The digital version was a recording based on the theatre production Morning and Evening from 2019. The recoding was made in a boathouse in Western Norway, without an audience. The digital version was made available through Bergen International Festival's digital platform at the festival's webpage, at Det Vestnorske Teateret's digital platform at the theatre's webpage and at Bergens Tidende's webpage bt.no during the Corona pandemic the spring of 2020. The access was free.
Terje Skonseng Naudeer directed it.
Stig Amdam played the role of Johannes.
The production was performed in the New Norwegian, and subtitled in the English.
Information
(Objekt ID 100040)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | May 21, 2020 |
| Produced by | Det Vestnorske Teateret |
| Based on | Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse |
| Audience | Adults |
| Language | Norwegian Nynorsk |
| Keywords | Corona-production, Digital production, Theatre, Solo |
| Running period | May 21, 2020 |
| Website | FESTSPILLENE I BERGEN |
"Jon Fosse's little, grand novel Morning and Evening describes two days of the fisherman Johannes' life.
The day he was born and the day he is to die. Between the traces from a work-filled life by the coast, between memories and experience, Johannes moves through the landscape he knows so well, and into the unknown death. His best friend Peter brings Johannes along on his last journey, and from his boat, they make their farewell with the earthly and tries to meet the ungraspable nothing.
Actor Stig Amdam conveys the literary and the human qualities of the text in an excellent manner. To see it play out in a frame including the landscape, so significant in Jon Fosse's writing, adds a dimension opening the story even more.
Det Vestnorske Teateret should have toured with Morning and Evening in boathouses this spring. Instead, we have the occasion to invite you along on Johannes' journey, filmed at the Western coast belonging to Fosse, where words and nature are so closely interwoven."
SOURCES:
Bergen International Festival. fib.no, 20.05.2020, https://www.fib.no/program/morgon-og-kveld/
Det Vestnorske Teateret, www.detvestnorsketeateret.no, 23.07.2020, https://www.detvestnorsketeateret.no/pa-scenen/morgon-og-kveld/
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Jon Fosse | – Author |
| Hildegun Riise | – Dramatised by |
| Terje Skonseng Naudeer | – Direction |
| Poul Iversen | – Video/Film (kamera) |
| Poul Iversen | – Light |
| Stig Amdam | – Actor |
| May 21, 2020 – Bergen International Festival, digital offering (Bergen International Festival) | Opening night |
| Bergen International Festival | May 21, 2020 |