Death in Venice
Death in Venice (2025) was a production by Ymist.
Information
(Objekt ID 156936)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | May 26, 2025 |
| Produced by | |
| Coproducers | Black Box Teater, , Rosendal Teater, |
| Based on | Døden i Venezia by Thomas Mann |
| Audience | Adults |
| Keywords | Theatre |
| Running period | May 26, 2025 |
| Duration | 110 minutes |
| Last changed | 27.10.2025 |
| Create date | 06.06.2025 |
Requirements to venue
| Last changed | 27.10.2025 |
| Create date | 06.06.2025 |
From Black Box teater’s season programme 2025:
’ "Loneliness fosters that which is original, daringly and bewilderingly beautiful, poetic. But loneliness also fosters that which is perverse, incongruous, absurd, forbidden."
– Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
The world as we know it is on the tipping point. A sense of doom creeps up on us. How do we act when the abyss is gaping right in front of our feet? When torrential rain pours down on us, when people are chased on the run, and when the truth is twisted into the absurd? Does it make us act? Gustav von Aschenbach in Thomas Mann's short story Death in Venice does what many of us do: He runs home and books a holiday somewhere sunny.
With its amalgamation between a distanced textual presentation, brutal choreographic material and seductive musical expression, the performance wishes to study a person who refuses to acknowledge that death has entered the ring, and who instead escapes into self-deception and desire.
Rights owned by: S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, Germany © Publisher in Norway: Skald.
Funded by: Arts Council Norway, Fond for lyd og bilde, The Fritt Ord Foundation, The Bergesen Foundation, The Fund for Performing Artists.
SOURCES:
Cornerstone, 02.09.2025, https://www.cornerstones.no/2025-sesong/d%C3%B8den-i-venezia
Black Box teater’s archive, 2025
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Thomas Mann | – Author |
| Oda Radoor | – Dramatised by |
| Geir Pollen | – Translation |
| Erlend Samnøen | – Direction |
| Erlend Samnøen | – Choreography |
| Nils Jakob Langvik | – Composer |
| Oda Radoor | – Dramaturge |
| Kjersti Alm Eriksen | – Stage design |
| Ane Aasheim | – Costume design |
| Ingeborg Staxrud Olerud | – Lighting design |
| Morten Espeland | – Actor |
| Nils Jakob Langvik | – Actor |
| Erik Rulin | – Actor |
| Emilie Mordal Konradsen | – Producer |
Technician: Daria Zarbeeva. Photography/illustrations: Kjersti Alm Eriksen.
| May 28, 2025 13:00 – Amfiscenen, Nationaltheatret, The National Theatre | Show |
| May 28, 2025 18:30 – Amfiscenen, Nationaltheatret, The National Theatre | Show |
| May 27, 2025 18:30 – Amfiscenen, Nationaltheatret, The National Theatre | Show |
| May 26, 2025 18:00 – Amfiscenen, Nationaltheatret, The National Theatre | Opening night |