Kva er ein skodespelar?* (What is an actor?)
Svein Erik Brodal's farewell performance Kva er ein skodespelar?* (What is an actor?) took place at The Norwegian Theatre in May 2012.
It was directed by Carl Morten Amundsen and used texts by Brodal, Aeschylus, Molière, Shakespeare, Prøysen. Brecht, Diderot, Stanislevsky, Jonsson and Chekhov, among others.
Source:
Performance program program for Kva er ein skodespelar?, The Norwegian Theatre
*Not yet translated into English. The title within parentheses is the Norwegian title's literal meaning.
Information
(Objekt ID 28385)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | May 4, 2012 |
| Produced by | The Norwegian Theatre |
| Audience | Adults |
| Audience size | 434 |
| Number of events | 7 |
| Language | Norwegian Nynorsk |
| Keywords | Monologue, Theatre |
| Running period | May 4, 2012 |
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Carl Morten Amundsen | – Script |
| Svein Erik Brodal | – Script |
| Carl Morten Amundsen | – Direction |
| Svenn Erik Kristoffersen | – Music |
| Mari Moen | – Dramaturge |
| Tommy Olsson (kostyme) | – Costume (Kostymekoordinator) |
| Torkel Skjærven | – Lighting design |
| Svein Erik Brodal | – Actor |
| Helge Fykse | – Props |
| Pål Pande-Rolfsen | – Stage manager |
| Birger Kingsrød | – Stage Manager |
| Karl Otto Tangen | – Stage Manager |
| Sissel Lillo Stenberg | – Prompter |
| May 4, 2012 – Scene 2, Det Norske Teatret, The Norwegian Theatre | Worldwide premiere |
Lillian Bikset, Dagbladet, Farvel til et fag (literally: Goodbye to a profession), May 7 2012, http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/05/07/kultur/scene/sceneanmeldelse/anmeldelser/det_norske_teatret/21485880/:
"When Svein Erik Brodal bids the stage farewell, he doesn't promote himself, but the profession.'What is an actor?', Svein Erik Brodal asks. 'You are', could the audience answer. For fifty years Brodal has been an employee of The Norwegian Theatre, as an actor, instructor and artistic director (1979-90). But this is not the answer he seeks. In his farewell, as in his career, the wide perspective is what Brodal is looking for. Professional curiosity, professional weight. (...) He quotes Denis Diderot, he uses Bertolt Brecht, he uses Constantin Stanislavski: Theatre perspectives far from each other. As such is the range of an actor's work, as such is Brodal's openness. Kva er...? is the farewell performance of the pedagogue and advocate Brodal, at least as much as the interpreter of roles'."