What's not to love?

On the webpage of Winter Guests the following is written about What's not to love?:

"Drawing on references from cinema, television and theatre, What's Not to Love? utilises many expressions to convey its singular message - 'there is nothing that cannot be loved' - nothing.  Based, in part, on scenes from the movie All about Eve, (the iconic Betty Davis Movie from 1950), What's not to love? becomes an ironic meta-piece about life, ambition and the roles we play.

Text written by Alan Lucien Øyen is fused with scenes from Six Feet Under, All about Eve and improvised dialogue between the performers, to create a piece which rolls from irony and humour in to sadness and melancholy. Garland performers such as Kate Strong, Yvonne Øyen and Anthony Rizzy throw themselves from one character and situation in to another in a Vaudeville of a show - lip-sync,  acting, singing, dancing (performed by the award winning Daniel Proietto), and... waiting."

"There is some kind of beauty in waiting."

In the autumn program of BIT Teatergarasjen in 2007 the following was written about What's not to love?:

"The production What's not to love? is an entertaining mix of music, text and choreography, finding inspiration in film and TV, among other places. Most of the text material is written by the choreographer Alan Øyen, but fragments have been found in Virginia Woolf's diaries and in Joseph L. Mankiewicz' film script All about Eve.

Alan Øyen has gathered an exciting ensemble. In his work he has worked with choreographer and former artistic director of Carte Blanche, Karen Foss, American Anthony Rizzi, who for 20 years was one of William Forsythe's most recognised dancers, English Kate Strong, who for many years danced for William Forsythe and who has experience from Volksbühne in Berlin, and Carte Blanche dancer Daniel Proietto from Argentine, plus actress Yvonne Øyen. Onstage we see Rizzi, Strong, Proietto and Yvonne Øyen. For the first time the choreographer is not performing onstage in his own production."

Supported by: Arts Council Norway and the municipality of Bergen.

Sources:

BIT Teatergarasjen, høstprogram 2007. 11.09.2010: http://www.bit-teatergarasjen.no

Winter Guests, winterguests.com, 05.01.2012 http://www.winterguests.com/theatre/whats-not-to-love.html

Writer and date unknown, Svensk Danstidning [Sweden]:
"What’s Not to Love has something unusually genuine about it; a sort of passion that is rarely seen in a lot of contemporary art."