This time it's Herman

This time it’s Herman (1998)by Temte Productions is a theatre production in style of cabaret revolving around the life and poetry of Herman Wildenvey, springing out from an argument about copyright between the places of Stavern and Mjøndalen. The production is framed by a meeting between two persons with different backgrounds and different relationships to Wildenvey.

Information

(Objekt ID 2332)
Object type Production
Premiere January 28, 1998
Produced by Temte Productions
Coproducers , Tema Productions
In collaboration with The Norwegian Touring Theatre (Riksteatret), Ibsen Theatre
Audience Youth (from 13 to 16)
Language Norwegian
Keywords Theatre, Performance for youth
Running period January 28, 1998  
Duration One hour
Website Temte Productions

Requirements to venue

Minimum stage width 4m
Maximum stage width 4m
Minimum stage depth 4m
Maximum stage depth 4m
Minimum stage height 4m
Maximum stage height 4m
Lights requirements No
Audio requirements Brought with
Blackout No
Rigging time 60 minutes
Downrigging time 30 minutes
Audience 100
More

The production This time it’s Herman by Temte Productions consists of well-known and unknown poems, such as The Ring, The Repentant and Kiss. Modern people meet the poet and the company has tried to liberate itself from the ideas how poetry is to be done. They want to reach both the poetry connoisseurs and those who meet poetry for the first time.

The script is made with foundation in improvised playing and creativity regarding the poems, independent of established opinions about Wildenvey and his work. In this game the company has began to see the contours of his life, and lets it shine through, without claiming knowledge to who he was or how he lived.

This time it’s Herman plays with the expression of poetry and attempts to let the essence of the poems speak to the audience here and now. The following poems have been used in the production: Anekdote, Kjærlighet, Unknown title (about the name of Wildenvey), Ved veia, Hergisheim, Kvinner og atter Kvinner, Møte, Beda Synger, February Dialogue, Eventyr, The Ring, Selma, Til Don Juan, Da Musene Holdt Råd, De Ensomme Ting, I Tanker, The Repentant, Insomnia, Vei, Alles Øyne, Speilet, Kiss, Fairytale for Til Ellen.

This time it’s Herman by Temte Productions was supported by the county of Buskerud and The Norwegian Actors’ Equity Association’s freelance fund. Main sponsor: IP Pettersen A/S.

Source: Temte Productions, http://temte.no/sider/ 08.11.2010

Most of the English-titled poems above are published in English translation in the book Owls to Athens. The rest of the poems have not yet been translated into English, but literally, their titles would be Anecdote, Love, By the road, Hergisheim (the name of Wildenvey’s home), Women and Women again, Meeting, Beda Sings, Fairytale, For Don Juan, When the Mice Held Council, The Lonely Things, In thoughts, Insomnia, Road, Everybody’s Eyes, The Mirror.

Contributors (10)
Name Role
Herman Wildenvey – Author
Per Skjølsvik – Script
Anne Sørensen – Script
Rune Temte – Script
Per Skjølsvik – Direction
Thea Glimsdal Temte – Costume
Ole Petter Westbye – Lighting design
Camilla Belsvik – Actor
Rune Temte – Actor
Espen Andersen – Producer
Performance dates
2001Studioscenen, Trøndelag Teater, Trøndelag Theatre Show
2001Store scene, Festiviteten i Skien, Ibsen Theatre Show
2001Hotell Wasilioff Show
1999 Show
January 28, 1998Studioscenen, Drammens Teater Worldwide premiere
Festivals (1)