Brothers

With the production Brothers (2004) Teater Joker invited the audience into a dark world. A world in which the one you trust is gone and your childhood friends are not who they seem to be. Where the hero may be a Bluebeard and the reality you know turns its insides out. Buffoonery meets sobriety. Anxiety meets happiness. Fairytales meet crime.

Information

(Objekt ID 1882)
Object type Production
Premiere August 30, 2004
Produced by Teater Joker
Coproducers The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater)
Audience Youth (from 13)
Language Norwegian
Keywords Theatre, Fairytale, Crime
Running period August 30, 2004  
Duration One hour
Website Teater Joker

Requirements to venue

Minimum stage width 4m
Maximum stage width 5m
Minimum stage depth 4m
Maximum stage depth 5m
Minimum stage height 3m
Maximum stage height 4m
Lights requirements Brought with
Audio requirements Acoustical
Blackout Yes
Rigging time 90 minutes
Downrigging time 45 minutes
Audience 150
Other Is well suited for gymnasiums. Can be played on both floor and stage, we play at the short end of the hall.Mats, benches and chairs form an amphi theatre.Basketball baskets must be removed.
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In Brothers by Teater Joker the story about the five childhood friends is told through switches, transitions and images, through which the actors’ bodies and voices make up the framework for the spectator’s imagination.

Brothersbuilds on poetry to a large degree, not just the way of literature, but also the way of body language, movement and imagery. The chaotic, spatial and hybrid expression becomes a meeting between different expressions, artistic and cultural. The production avoids the one-dimensional and gets close to something youth of today know well: The virtual.

Teater Joker uses a technique related to the virtual: Cartoon mime. The basis for cartoon mime is an empty room in which the performers create all that happens, with their bodies as a framework for the imagination of the spectator. The expression uses techniques we recognise from the movies, such as slow motion, overview vistas, fast forward, close-ups and music.

Brotherscontinues examining the expression Teater Joker used in the production Rike Per* (Rich Per). The stage is more or less free of props, and the actors’ bodies work as tools and expressions. In several sequences the actors wear masks, and the production spins around the keyword of "duality" in theme and expression.

Brothers was supported by The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater), Oslo University College, Arts Council Norway, The Audio Visual Fund and The Norwegian Actors’ Equity Association’s fund for freelancers.

Sources:

Teater Joker, 29.11.2010,  http://www.teaterjoker.no/Teater_Joker/Brdre.html

Performing Arts Hub Norway/PAHN, 29.11.2010, http://www.danseogteatersentrum.no/sck/members.shtml?lang=nor&sam=&cat=&gen=&cou=&cri=teater%20joker&aid=1&prid=6&act=prod

Contributors (12)
Name Role
Silje Vethal – Playwright
Niels Peter Underland – Direction
Anne Bryhn – Choreography
Kristine Bratlie – Music
Åshild Vethal – Dramaturge
Jarl Flaaten Bjørk – Actor
Guri Glans – Actor
Øystein S. Johansen – Actor
Astrid Elise Sæterøy – Actor
Håkon Vego – Actor
Ragnhild Gjems – Mask design
Guri Glans – Producer
Performance dates
Navember 8, 2005Store Scene, The National Stage Season premiere/Seasonal opening
August 30, 2004Hallen, The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater) Opening night