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Anmeldelse Lisbet Hiide, 18.03.94, i Morgenbladet av Baktruppens produksjon "Super-Per" (1994)/engelsk oversettelse pdf March 18, 1994 Download
Anmeldelse av Arnd Wesemann,10.06.94, i Die tageszeitung av Baktruppens produksjon "Super-Per" (94) pdf June 10, 1994 Download
Anmeldelse av Barbara Beisenkötter, 07.06.94, i Frankfurter Neue Presse av Baktruppens produksjon "Super-Per" (94) pdf June 7, 1994 Download
Anmeldelse av Ebbe Mørk, 04.11.94, i Politiken av Baktruppens produksjon "Super-Per" (94) pdf Navember 4, 1994 Download
Anmeldelse av Ina Blom, 22.03.94, i Aftenposten av Baktruppens produksjon "Super-Per" (94) pdf March 22, 1994 Download
Anmeldelse av Ina Blom, 22.03.94, i Aftenposten av Baktruppens produksjon "Super-Per" (94) pdf March 22, 1994 Download
Anmeldelse av Lisbet Hiide, 18.03.94, i Morgenbladet av Baktruppens produksjon "Super-Per" pdf March 18, 1994 Download
Anmeldelse av Markus Payer, 05.06.94, i Frankfurter Allgemeine av Baktruppens produksjon "Super-Per" (94) pdf June 5, 1994 Download
Anmeldelse av Pieter Bots, 29.07.94, i Het Parool av Baktruppens produksjon "Super-Per" (94) pdf July 29, 1994 Download
Anmeldelse av Ronald Ockhuysen, 30.07.94, i av Baktruppens produksjon "Super-Per" (94) pdf July 30, 1994 Download
Anmeldelse, av Dirk Fuhrig, i Frankfurter Rundschau av Baktruppens produksjon "Super-Per" (94) pdf Download
Anmeldelse, av Geert Sels av Baktruppens produksjon "Super-Per" (1994) og "Good Good Very Good" (1996) pdf Download
Anmeldelse, av Peter Anthonissen, i De Morgen av Baktruppens produksjon "Super-Per" (94) pdf Download
Artikkel om Baktruppene i forbindelse med Baktruppens produksjon "Super-Per" (94) pdf Download
Artikkel, Knut Ove Arntzen, Ibsen Theatre Symposium/Universitetet i Oslo, 1996 pdf 1996 Download
Brev til Cheung Fai fra Baktruppen, 22.02.96 pdf Download
Flyer av Baktruppens produksjon "Super-Per" (1994) pdf Download
Flyer til Baktruppens produksjon "Super-Per" (1994) pdf Download
Flygerblad Baktruppens produksjon "Super-Per" (1994) pdf Download
Forhåndsomtale av Ellen Cathrine Kjøsterud, 11.03.94, i Dagbladet av Baktruppens produksjon "Super-Per" (94) pdf March 11, 1994 Download
Forhåndsomtale, av Erik Roosens av Baktruppens produksjon "Super-Per" (94) og "Good Good Very Good (1996)" pdf Download
Informasjonsark om Baktruppens produksjon "Super-Per" (94) pdf Download
Program til Baktruppens produksjon "Super-Per" (1994) pdf March 12, 1994 Download
Programomtale, av Marijke Hoogenboom av Baktruppens produksjon "Super-Per" (1994) pdf June 4, 1995 Download
Researchmateriale av Baktruppens produksjon "Peer, du lügst. Ja!/Peer, du lyver. Ja!/Peer, you're lying. Yes!" (1993) pdf Download

Super-Per

Super-Per (1994)nby Baktruppen is a compilation of the highlights of Baktruppen’s life as Peer Gynt. In 1993 Baktruppen produced five versions of Per, you’re lying. Yes! in five different cities.

"By bringing the themes of Gynt to a dead end as a starting point, for so to produce five different productions in five different cities, Baktruppen’s ability to face reality was truly improved ", described Baktruppen.

Information

(Objekt ID 10318)
Object type Production
Premiere March 12, 1994
Produced by Baktruppen
Coproducers BIT Teatergarasjen, , Hebbel am Ufer, , Zürcher Theater Spektakel
Based on Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen
Audience Youth, Adults
Language Norwegian and English
Keywords Performance, Theatre, Post-dramatic theatre, Multidisciplinary, Cabaret, Multimedia, Rock
Running period March 12, 1994  —  January 3, 1999
Duration 1 hour
Website Baktruppen

Requirements to venue

Blackout No
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Super-Per by Baktruppen has a cabaret-like form. In 1993 Baktruppen took the name Peer Gynt and bought ocean blue contacts used by the performers in the production. The performers told their own anecdotes from the life of Peer/Per’s life, for instance about the time when he went to New York to buy all the Elvis stamps he could possibly find.

Super-Per had many humorous elements and a generous portion of madness, plus the aim of providing the audience with the feeling that here anything could happen. The performers told stories and danced, and all emotions were overdone and given a comical effect.

The first Per du lügst. Ja was an erotic education show performed in Frankfurt. Next the company travelled to Norway to study its own origins. In Per du lyver. Ja!, the second version, Per was a used cars salesman selling a Toyota Corolla. In Zürich Per Gynt installed a radar atop the venue. Every time a boat entered the alarm zone, a toot toot sounded. Next was Hong Kong, "a completely happy state" to perform Per you're lying. Yes!. In the fourth version Per du lügst. Ja was performed in Berlin, where Baktruppen grew beards, danced folkloric dances and gave lectures in the conditions for love after the last Ice Age. Eventually, in the fifth version, Peer was invited to Antwerp. There Baktruppen established a rock band and opened Institute of Happiness Research, with fireworks and flowers.

When Baktruppen came home to its own name Super-Per was already there. In the words of Baktruppen: "In Norwegian it is called Super Per? which then means: Is Per in Paradise?. Will he go to hell? Tired with questions Per went the narrow path to the deep North where he met fishermen, soldiers and women. He stopped lying and the production became a love affair."

Super-Per was supported by The Norwegian Ministry for Foreign Affairs/MFA.

Sources:

Knut Ove Arntzen and Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk, ed. (2009). Performance art by Baktruppen. First part. Oslo: The publishing house Kontur forlag

Baktruppen, 31.12.2010, http://www.baktruppen.org og http://www.baktruppen.org/div_htmls/soknad0608.html

Baktruppen’s archive, donated by: Baktruppen, March 2011

Contributors (20)
Name Role
Tone Avenstroup – Co-creator
Erik Balke – Co-creator
Øyvind Berg – Co-creator
Hans Petter Melø Dahl – Co-creator
Trine Falch – Co-creator
Ingvild Holm – Co-creator
Jørgen Knudsen – Co-creator
Gurå Mathiesen Bjørre – Co-creator
Bo Krister Wallström – Co-creator
Worm Winther – Co-creator
Tone Avenstroup – Performer
Erik Balke – Performer
Øyvind Berg – Performer
Hans Petter Melø Dahl – Performer
Trine Falch – Performer
Ingvild Holm – Performer
Jørgen Knudsen – Performer
Gurå Mathiesen Bjørre – Performer
Bo Krister Wallström – Performer
Worm Winther – Performer
Festivals (5)