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The Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper by Oberon Teater is an adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story The Yellow Wallpaper.

Information

(Objekt ID 1036)
Object type Production
Premiere September 26, 2001
Produced by Oberon Teater
Based on The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Audience Adults (from 14)
Language Norwegian
Keywords Theatre, Drama
Running period September 26, 2001  
Website Oberon Teaterproduksjoner
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In The Yellow Wallpaper by Oberon Teater we have been taken back to the last change of century (approximately 1900) and the audience meets a woman placed in a large, airy room to heal from "temporary nervous depressions – a hint of hysteria". The room is covered with ugly yellow wallpaper she immediately begins to hate. With little else to do she starts studying the pattern, and soon she discovers a little creature behind the wallpaper, trying to find its way out.

The main character in The Yellow Wallpaper by Oberon Teater exists in two worlds, one concrete, one metaphysical – in the latter the wallpaper becomes alive. She loses her usual understanding of what is real. Hence the expression switches between the naturalist in its dialogues/monologues and the purely visual – expressed through video projections, sound images and choreography.

The Yellow Wallpaper was supported by Arts Council Norway, the county of Østfold, the municipality of Halden and the Freedom of Expression Foundation Fritt Ord.

Source: Oberon Teater, 16.12.2010, http://www.oberonteater.no/forest.html

Contributors (14)
Name Role
Charlotte Perkins Gilman – Author
Birgitte Strid – Dramatised by
Birgitte Strid – Direction
Liv Anne Bjurgren – Choreography
Ana Giles-Myers – Stage design
Ana Giles-Myers – Costume design
Kathrine Riise Varadaraj – Video/Film
Peter Mirecki – Sound design
Kaja Glenne Lund – Lighting design
Cecilie Jørstad – Actor
Daniel Karlsson – Actor (John)
Kristin Søraune – Actor (Jennie, svigerinne)
Kjetil Skåret – Technical director
Liv Anne Bjurgren – Director’s assistant
Performance dates
September 30, 2001Lille scene (Vika), Black Box teater Show
September 29, 2001Lille scene (Vika), Black Box teater Show
September 28, 2001Lille scene (Vika), Black Box teater Show
September 27, 2001Lille scene (Vika), Black Box teater Show
September 26, 2001Lille scene (Vika), Black Box teater National premiere, Norway
Press coverage

"...Cecilie Jørstad has grown great. Great enough she will be able to convince an even more eclectic audience when The Yellow Wallpaper opens in Oslo Wednesday September 26. Competent Kristin J. Søraune invited confidence as the sister in law Jennie, while able Daniel Karlsson managed to give life to the husband John. The stage design? I found it excellent. Further director Birgitte Strid deserves praise. She has translated and adapted the play, and considered that this was ideas on paper, she has managed to visualise action and content in a splendid way. The video design by Kathrine Riise Varadaraj is in itself reason enough to attend the theatre this weekend."

Halden Arbeiderblad, September 15 2001