| Title (3) | File type | Publiseringsdato | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season program BIT Teatergarasjen autumn 2001. | August 2001 | Download | |
| Season program Black Box Theater the spring of 2001. | January 2001 | Download | |
| Season programme for Black Box Teater, Autumn 2000 | August 2000 | Download |
The Tiger Garden
The Tiger Garden was a theatre production by Hollow Creature. The Tiger Garden was the last part of the trilogy In memoriam to Identity based on texts by the American writer Kathy Acker.
Information
(Objekt ID 2422)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | September 27, 2000 |
| Produced by | Hollow Creature |
| Coproducers | Performing Arts Network (of Norway) |
| Audience | Adults, Youth (from 16) |
| Keywords | Multidisciplinary, Theatre |
| Running period | September 27, 2000 |
| Website |
On the webpage of Hollow Creature the following is written about The Tiger Garden:
"Technology as a sensory fellow actor:
The Tiger Garden is a role play based on the principle of choice and effect, put into system by computer programming.
The garden is the structure and the tiger is the game. The process is non-linear and can be presented in many different varieties. There are 12 scenes of readily prepared performance material. These can be performed in different combinations, chosen randomly every night.
The rules of the game are logical as well as irrational, just and unjust. The structure of the game is labyrinthine: there are many ways to reach the aim. Hence the game will seem new every time it is performed, as a hypertextual dream play in which the different geographic, mental, linguistic and character-related changes constitute the very premise of the scene.
The seductive, hypersexual and sadomasochist world was a reality for Acker and many of her contemporaries. What separated Acker from her circles and her time was that she wrote about it. She put forth an intense, powerful and near obsessed intelligence which very well knew the boundaries for the real as well as the unreal, the meaningful and the meaningless. Acker's work confronts us with a phantasmagoria of a dream world, in which different realities overlap and sometimes are forced together.
From the beginning it has been clear that the use of technology would be an important effect in our approach to this reality. An underlying wish has been to work in close collaboration with the technology, in such a way it is given a vital placement considering the aesthetics as well as the structure. The compilation of live activities and specially developed video and sound programs allows the use of music and video in playful interaction with the performance as a whole. The production would have been impossible to realise without these compilations.
The Tiger Garden has been developed in close collaboration with the performers. Since the beginning of the process the material has developed as the performers' response to Acker's texts. This is also reflected in the dramaturgy, developed by the full company until the very time of opening."
The Tiger Garden was supported by Arts Council Norway/The Norwegian Culture Fund and The Audio Visual Fund.
Gerd Zoe Christiansen won The Hedda Award 2001 in best visual design category for her stage design for The Tiger Garden.
Sources:
Hollow Creature, hollowcreature.no, 20.09.2011, http://www.hollowcreature.no/
Sceneweb on The Hedda Award 2001, www.sceneweb.no, 08.11.2012, http://www.sceneweb.no/en/awarding/23910/Heddaprisen_2001-2001
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Kathy Acker | – Author |
| Zoe Christiansen | – Script (I samarbeid med gruppen) |
| Zoe Christiansen | – Direction |
| Erik Balke | – Music |
| Sven Erga | – Music |
| Zoe Christiansen | – Dramaturge (Spillestruktur) |
| Sven Erga | – Dramaturge (Spillestruktur) |
| Stuart Lynch | – Dramaturge (Spillestruktur) |
| Signe Vasshus | – Costume design |
| Hans Christian Gilje | – Video/Film |
| Hans Christian Gilje | – Video/Film |
| Johnny Yen | – Video/Film (& additional desing) |
| Sven Erga | – Sound design |
| Hans Christian Gilje | – Lighting design |
| Jakob Andersen | – Actor (Skygge/engel) |
| Hanne Dieserud | – Actor |
| Fredrik Hannestad | – Actor |
| Saila Hyttinen | – Actor |
| Kirsti Ladegaard | – Actor (Skygge/engel) |
| Stuart Lynch | – Actor (Skygge/engel) |
| Kate Pendry | – Actor (Vertinne) |
| Stein Jarle Nilsen | – Photo |