Quartet
Quartet was a theatre production by Krement X, based on the play by the same name, written by Heiner Müller.
The performers were Anna Dworak and Morten Traavik, and Morten Traavik also directed the production.
Information
(Objekt ID 2277)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | 2002 |
| Coproducers | Krement X |
| Based on | Quartet by Heiner Müller |
| Audience | Adults (from 16) |
| Language | Norwegian |
| Keywords | Theatre, Drama |
| Running period | 2002 |
| Duration | 1 hour |
Requirements to venue
| Minimum stage width | 8m |
| Maximum stage width | 8m |
| Minimum stage depth | 8m |
| Maximum stage depth | 8m |
| Minimum stage height | 5m |
| Maximum stage height | 5m |
| Blackout | Yes |
| Rigging time | 450 minutes |
| Downrigging time | 180 minutes |
| Audience | 400 |
Quartet by Krement X has form of a duel in words and action. The duellists are two former lovers, Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont, both of them experienced, cynical seducers, born into the upper class.
Quartet is a partly playful and partly desperate game in which roles, gender and status are challenged through a duel in seductive eloquence, in tension between the opposites of sex and death. Underneath lie the opponents' increasingly pathetic attempts to flee one's own and the other's moral and physical decline, and the final result of the game is a given for both parties, no matter who wins.
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Heiner Müller | – Playwright |
| Morten Traavik | – Direction |
| Anne Hübertz Eriksen | – Dramaturge |
| Dordi Strøm | – Stage design |
| Dordi Strøm | – Costume design |
| John Hegre | – Sound design |
| Stephen Rolfe | – Lighting design |
| Anna Dworak | – Actor |
| Morten Traavik | – Actor |
| Anna Dworak | – Director’s assistant |
| Dag Haugstvedt | – Main producer |
| 2002 | Opening night |