Peer Gynt
The story of Peer Gynt (2003) was by Grenland Friteater told over a span of six hours, by 50 performers and in three different stage locations spread all over Grenland. The audience was brought from location to location with buses and was treated to a meal midway into the play, at The Madhouse Café. Such a grand-scale mobile performance of Peer Gynt had not formerly been made in Norway.
Lars Vik directed it.
Carl Henrik Ekblom, Kyrre Hellum and Ola Otnes played the young, the middle and the elder Peer respectively.
Peer Gynt was revived in 2004 and 2008 with some changes in the cast.
Information
(Objekt ID 1917)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | June 10, 2003 |
| Produced by | Grenland Friteater |
| In collaboration with | Ibsen Theatre |
| Based on | Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen |
| Audience | Youth, Adults (from 15) |
| Audience size | 11610 |
| Number of events | 40 |
| Language | Norwegian |
| Keywords | Theatre, Physical theatre, Site spesific performance, Outdoors theatre |
| Running period | June 10, 2003 |
| Duration | 6 hours |
| Website | Grenland Friteater |
The first sequences in Peer Gynt by Grenland Friteater were performed outdoors in national-romantic surroundings at Telemark Fylkesmuseum, Brekkeparken. After the bridal robbery actors and audience were transported by bus to historical ground at Menstad, between Porsgrunn and Skien. Norway’s largest wooden building housed the Mountain Hall (the Mountain King arrived by locomotive), a madhouse on tracks and a stormy Northern Sea. The finale took place at midnight in a large, destitute landscape; the quarry of Bjørntvedt in Porsgrunn, where the aging Peer was confronted with his wasted life.
SOURCES:
Ibsen Theatre, teateribsen.no, 02.08.2017, http://www.teateribsen.no/index.php?page_id=1317
Grenland Friteater, grenlandfriteater.com, 18.08.2010, http://www.grenlandfriteater.com/show_details.asp?ID=982
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Lars Vik | – Direction |
| Un-Magritt Nordseth | – Choreography |
| Guttorm Guttormsen | – Musical direction |
| Guttorm Guttormsen | – Composition |
| Hans Georg Andersen | – Stage design |
| Mona Irene Grimstad | – Costume design |
| Lina M. Lein Hansen | – Costume |
| Sigbjørn Rell | – Sound design |
| Erik Spets Sandvik | – Lighting design |
| Jannicke Irwin Abrahamsen | – Actor (2008) |
| Geddy Aniksdal | – Actor (Solveig) |
| Robert Berge | – Actor (2003 og 2004) |
| Malin Bratlie | – Actor |
| Carl Henrik Ekblom | – Actor (Den unge Peer Gynt) |
| Anne-Sophie Erichsen | – Actor (Mor Aase) |
| Jonatan Filip | – Actor (2008) |
| Olav Hanto | – Actor (2003 og 2004) |
| Kyrre Hellum | – Actor (Den middelaldrende Peer Gynt 2003 og 2004) |
| Tommy Henriksen | – Actor (2003 og 2004) |
| Kjersti Høgli | – Actor (2003 og 2004) |
| Joakim Dan Jørgensen | – Actor |
| Marius Kleppe Kolstad | – Actor (2008) |
| Anne E. Kokkin | – Actor (2008) |
| Maria Løkken | – Actor (2008) |
| Birgit Nordby | – Actor (2003 og 2004) |
| Ola Otnes | – Actor (Den gamle Peer Gynt) |
| Sylvia Salvesen | – Actor (2008) |
| Anne Storberget | – Actor (2003 og 2004) |
| Terje Sødal | – Actor (2003 og 2004) |
| Tor Arne Ursin | – Actor (2003 og 2004) |
| Tobias Vik | – Actor (2008) |
| Jan Ø. Wiig | – Actor (2008) |
| Leif Winther | – Actor |
| Tore Bråthen | – Musician |
| Finn Arne Dahl Hanssen | – Musician |
| Lars Igesund | – Musician (2008) |
| Håvard Kittilsen | – Musician |
| Vidar Løvbrøtte | – Musician |
| Wenche Rånman Nornes | – Musician |
| Stig Sjøstrøm | – Musician |
| Gunn Steinstad | – Musician (2008) |
| Leif Winther | – Musician |
| Julie A. Clark | – Mask design (2008) |
| Heidi Elisabeth Rød | – Mask design (2003 og 2004) |
| Rune Gåsodden | – Props |
| Morten Berntsen | – Stage manager |
| Inger Buresund | – Producer (Kunstnerisk produsent) |
| 2008 | New opening |
| 2004 | New opening |
| June 10, 2003 – Brekkeparken (Porsgrunn International Theatre Festival) | Opening night |
| Porsgrunn International Theatre Festival | June 10, 2003 |