Looking for a job
Looking for a job by Cirkus Sibylla AKA Circus Sibylla and the mime artist Said Salama was about a refugee looking for a job in a Scandinavian country. Even though he has an excellent CV with good education, he is only offered a cleaning job. Eventually he is able to find a living as a street artist and he joins a travelling jester group.
Information
(Objekt ID 11750)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | April 20, 2010 |
| Produced by | Teater Sibylla |
| Coproducers | Zidan Salama Institute for Culture and Arts |
| Audience | Children, Families |
| Keywords | Pantomime, Physical theatre |
| Running period | April 20, 2010 |
| Duration | 45 minutes |
| Website | Cirkus Sibylla |
Requirements to venue
| Blackout | Yes |
| Rigging time | 60 minutes |
| Downrigging time | 30 minutes |
Looking for a job by Cirkus Sibylla AKA Circus Sibylla has the artistic aim of visualising how to collaborate and build bridges between cultures through focusing on the human values one has in common, and by visualising a refugee’s challenge in meeting with the Nordic societies. The production is part of a larger international peace-promoting work through art and culture.
The production is performed completely without words.
Looking for a job by Cirkus Sibylla AKA Circus Sibylla was supported by the Norwegian Ministry for Foreign Affairs/MFA (travel grant/performing arts).
Source: Folkeakademiet, folkeakademiet.no, 09.04.2011, http://www.folkeakademiet.no/index.php?artID=2545&navB=143
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Carl Andreas Olsen | – Direction |
| Ivanir Hasson Olsen | – Actor |
| Siad Salama | – Actor |
| April 23, 2011 – Shefa-Amr Municipality Hall (International Annual Pantomime Festival) | Show |
| April 22, 2011 – Shefa-Amr Municipality Hall (International Annual Pantomime Festival) | Show |
| April 21, 2011 – Shefa-Amr Municipality Hall (International Annual Pantomime Festival) | Show |
| April 20, 2011 – Shefa-Amr Municipality Hall (International Annual Pantomime Festival) | Show |
| April 20, 2010 | Worldwide premiere |
| International Annual Pantomime Festival | April 20, 2011 |