Døde menn og tørste kvinner
Døde menn og tørste kvinner ("Dead Men and Thirsty Women; 2022) was a theatre production by Theater F / Pernille Mercury Lindstad.
The production was shown as a work in progress at The Norwegian Centre for New Playwriting (Dramatikkens Hus) on 9 September 2022, and the finished production was premiered at Black Box teater, Oslo, on 30 April 2025.
Information
(Objekt ID 132185)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | April 30, 2025 |
| Produced by | |
| Coproducers | Norwegian Centre for New Playwriting (NCNP) |
| Audience | Adults |
| Language | Norwegian |
| Keywords | Work-in-progress, Theatre, Drama, Performance, Reading |
| Running period | September 9, 2022 — May 3, 2025 |
| Duration | 120 minutes |
| Website | Black Box Teater |
| Last changed | 20.11.2025 |
| Create date | 18.10.2022 |
Requirements to venue
| Last changed | 20.11.2025 |
| Create date | 18.10.2022 |
From Black Box teater’s season programme for 2025:
"In this performance we follow a character named The Model. The Model is a model, but also a model for human life in today's world. A life wandering from a hyper-individualism towards a new collectivism?
In a Western late-capitalist, counter-attacking right-wing society, a time of transition where young men are once again required to go to war to die.
And we who thought feminism had come so far...
The middle-aged Model does not find her place in Norway, she has not yet achieved her dream of a career as an iconic Model.
She travels to Paris to try her luck as a model one last time. Eventually she moves into an old morgue at the Père-Lachaise Cemetery, simply because she has no other mental or financial resources left. At the cemetery she makes new friends who are ghosts of dead men. She also meets a young "exchange student", who also has encountered a somewhat harsh reality in life.
War breaks out in the world and new borders are drawn, new states of emergency are implemented.
The Model and the Exchange Student are confronted with having to choose life anew in new forms."
Supported by: Arts Council Norway, The Norwegian Centre for New Playwriting, The Fund for Performing Artists.
Thanks to: Oslo Fotostudio
SOURCES:
Dramatikkens Hus, dramatikkenshus.no, 18/10.2022, http://www.dramatikkenshus.no/kalender/dode-menn-og-torste-kvinner-av-pernille-mercury-lindstad
Imported from Scenekunst.no’s list of premieres 18/10-2022
Imported from scenekunst.no 28.08.2025
Black Box teater’s archive, 2025
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Pernille Mercury Lindstad | – Script |
| Pernille Mercury Lindstad | – Direction |
| Heidi Dalene | – Stage design |
| Endre Tveitan | – Stage design (og visuelt design (2022)) |
| Heidi Dalene | – Costume |
| Endre Tveitan | – Video/Film |
| Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel | – Sound (Lydkomposisjon) |
| Heidi Dalene | – Lighting design |
| Carl Martin Eggesbø | – Actor |
| Selome Emnetu | – Actor ((2022)) |
| Per Bogstad Gulliksen | – Actor |
| John Emil Jørgensrud | – Actor ((2022)) |
| Åsa Hillingseter Løyning | – Actor |
| Gine Cornelia Pedersen | – Actor |
| Hanne Skille Reitan | – Actor ((2022)) |
| Toivo Ty Terjesen | – Actor |
| Aleksander Varadian | – Actor |
| Rina Rosenqvist | – Dancer |
| Magdalene Solli | – Dancer |
| Heidi Dalene | – Makeup |
| Lunga Mandhla Majola | – Sound technician |
| Ida Holthe Lid | – Producer |
Carpenter: Guy Belgau
| May 3, 2025 19:00 – Store scene (Main stage), Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) | Show |
| May 2, 2025 19:00 – Store scene (Main stage), Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) | Show |
| April 30, 2025 19:00 – Store scene (Main stage), Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) | Opening night |
| September 9, 2022 18:00 – Hallen, Dramatikkens hus, Norwegian Centre for New Playwriting (NCNP) | First performance |