Let's Fall in Love
In the production Let's Fall in Love Teater NOR wanted to explore love and the conditions for love surrounding us in our daily lives. Teater NOR sent the 80 year old German photographer Michael Bry from Portugal to Lofoten by train, to look for traces of love and people in love in trains and train stations. The photographies, taken in secret, became the foundation for the production Let's Fall in Love and the production following it, The Table. Let's Fall in Love was made in 2004.
Information
(Objekt ID 1345)| Object type | Production |
| Produced by | Teater NOR |
| Audience | Adults (from 13) |
| Keywords | Theatre |
| Website | Teater NOR |
Requirements to venue
| Blackout | No |
In Let's fall in Love by Teater NOR the images of Michael Bry were sent out in the dark, captured by bed sheets whirling choreographically through the room with the actors. The production became more of a visual presentation of the absence of love, or problems connected to love, rather than a study or a reflection over love as such. For instance, in one of the tableaus a woman falling and falling again was presented for the audience, who had no way of helping her. A blindfolded girl was hit badly by two men with choreographed walking sticks, and one of the actors stood vomiting in a bucket.
Teater NOR eventually summarised the production as a little conceptual error. Love is hard to illuminate when one focuses directly on it, it should rather be treated as something sprinkling a situation, an event or a social connection.
Source: E-mail from Thorbjørn Gabrielsen, 11.11.2010
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Thorbjørn Gabrielsen | – Direction |
| Andreas Eilertsen | – Music |
| Thorbjørn Gabrielsen | – Video/Film |
| Andreas Eilertsen | – Actor |
| Cristina Granados | – Actor |
| Sissel Helgesen | – Actor |
| Elisabeth Helland Larsen | – Actor |
| Øystein Reksten Sanne | – Actor |
| Michael Bry | – Photo |