Once upon a stove

Once upon a stove (1985) was a theatre production by Cirka Teater.

Information

(Objekt ID 17680)
Object type Production
Premiere 1985
Produced by Cirka Teater
Audience All
Language Norwegian and English
Keywords Theatre, Performance for children, Performance for the Family, Outside performance, Street theatre
Running period 1985  —  2014
Duration One hour
Website CIRKA TEATER, NRK TV

Requirements to venue

Minimum stage width 5m
Minimum stage depth 6m
Minimum stage height 4m
Blackout Yes
More

In The catalogue of Performing Arts Hub Norway 86 the following, among other things, is written about Once upon a stove by Cirka Teater:

"The story of a journey in a country in which the land no longer belongs to the humans, and in which the song of the land is no longer sung. The roads have become dangerous to wander, but nobody cares about a poor collector of scraps. She may do what nobody else has the courage to do. She travels the forbidden roads and thinks the forbidden thoughts."

SOURCES:

Buresund, Inger and Anne-Britt Gran (1996): Frie grupper og Black Box Teater. 1970-1995 (literally: Independent companies and Black Box Teater. 1970-1995), adNotam Gyldendal, Oslo

Performing Arts Hub Norway, The catalogue of Performing Arts Hub Norway 86, 15.10.2013

Contributors (8)
Name Role
Gilles Berger – Script
Anne Marit Sæther – Script
Gilles Berger – Concept/Idea
Anne Marit Sæther – Concept/Idea
Gilles Berger – Stage design
Gilles Berger – Actor
Martin Høgberg – Actor (alternerte med Sæther)
Anne Marit Sæther – Actor (alternerte med Høgberg)
Performance dates
June 14, 2014Teaterhuset Avant Garden Show
February 20, 1992Lille scene (Vika), Black Box teater Show
February 19, 1992Lille scene (Vika), Black Box teater Show
February 18, 1992Lille scene (Vika), Black Box teater Show
February 17, 1992Lille scene (Vika), Black Box teater Show
1987 Show
September 6, 1986 11:00 – Edvard Griegs Plass 1 Show
September 6, 1986 14:00 – Nordnes Bydelshus Show
September 5, 1986 18:00 – Nordnes Bydelshus Show
February 2, 1986Lille scene (Vika), Black Box teater Show
February 1, 1986Lille scene (Vika), Black Box teater Show
January 31, 1986Lille scene (Vika), Black Box teater Show
January 30, 1986Lille scene (Vika), Black Box teater Show
1986 Show
1986 Show
1985 Worldwide premiere
Press coverage

Writer and date unknown, Vårt Land [Oslo]:
"She lives rather simply by collecting scraps. She is the apparently simple and naïve person nobody takes notice of. But she sees this thing and that other, and she collects other things, too, things worth a lot more than the garbage. The day she meets The Guy, a stranger who also wanders the roads, as a refugee, the difficult journey through the land in which the roads are closed starts, the land where people are controlled, where thoughts are to be thought in one way only.

[...]

The company consists of two actors, Anne Marit Sæther and Gilles Berger. Music, mime, sculpture and some lines, but the most important is the body language."