Elephant Stories
On Animals by Elfriede Jelinek / Passacaglia by Tore Vagn Lid
Elephant Stories by Tore Vagn Lid/Transiteatret-Bergen was a confrontation with our lives’ ideals. Are consciousness just electrical impulses in the brain? Do women become invisible when they turn 50? What is the correlation between bio medicine, lifestyle industry and "the freedom to choose"?
Information
(Objekt ID 305)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | May 28, 2009 |
| Produced by | Tore Vagn Lid/Transiteatret Bergen, The National Theatre |
| Based on | On Animals by Elfriede Jelinek |
| Audience | Adults |
| Language | Norwegian |
| Keywords | Multidisciplinary, Musical theatre, Theatre, Movie, Post-dramatic theatre |
| Running period | May 28, 2009 |
| Website | Transiteatret-Bergen |
Requirements to venue
| Blackout | Yes |
In Elephant Stories by Tore Vagn Lid/Transiteatret-Bergen, our modern understanding of ourselves was tested.
The project was put together as a scenic-musical dialogue – an exchange – between two theatre materials, the Nobel winner Elfriede Jelinek’s play On Animals (German title: Über Tiere) and Tore Vagn Lid’s Passacaglia. Passacaglia is also the term for a dramaturgic and musical principle in which a repeated fundamental theme is challenged by a stream of counter-voices.
Elephant Stories by Tore Vagn Lid/Transiteatret-Bergen became a dialogic relay in which actors, instrumentalists, choristers and loudspeakers take part.
Source:
Transiteatret-Bergen, transiteatret.com, 01.08.2010, http://www.transiteatret.com/elephantintro.html
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Elfriede Jelinek | – Playwright (Om dyr) |
| Tore Vagn Lid | – Text (Passacaglia) |
| Tore Vagn Lid | – Direction |
| Mari Moen | – Dramaturge |
| Kyrre Bjørkås | – Stage design |
| Ingunn Birkeland | – Costume design |
| Ingvild Langgård | – Costume design |
| Marianne Moe | – Costume design |
| Øyvind Lyslo | – Musical arrangement |
| Thorolf Thuestad | – Sound design |
| Tobias Leira | – Lighting design |
| Katrine Dale | – Actor |
| Eindride Eidsvold | – Actor |
| Tor Christian Faugstad Bleikli | – Actor |
| Mona Synnøve Solhaug | – Actor |
| Andrine Sæther | – Actor |
| Egil Haugland | – Musician |
| Stein-Erik Olsen | – Musician |
| Njål Vindenes | – Musician |
| Gro Espedal | – Choirmaster (Korleder) |
| Claudio Aiello | – Stage manager |
| Joachim Hvoslef Krüger | – Stage manager |
| Julian Bendik Madsø | – Stage Manager |
| Hanne Marte Fuglseth | – Lighting supervisor |
| Hedda Abildsnes | – Director’s assistant |
| Gunhild Mathea Olaugson | – Assistant Stage Designer |
| Inga Moen Danielsen | – Producer |
| Tove Arna Lewin | – Producer |
| Roar Sletteland | – Other (Elektronikk) |
| Rune Andreassen | – Videodesign |
| Kari N. Svendsby | – Administration (Markedsanavarlig) |
| Åsne Dahl Torp | – Administration (Informasjonsansvarlig) |
| September 4, 2009 – Amfiscenen, Nationaltheatret, The National Theatre | New opening |
| May 28, 2009 (Bergen International Festival) | Worldwide premiere |
| Bergen International Festival | May 28, 2009 |
"Great will, lack of shape" "I feel overloaded" Jan Landro (2009, 30.05). Bergens Tidende
"With its use of audiovisual effects, film and sound recordings, one can safely say that Tore Vagn Lid with ”Elephant Stories” lifts his particular form of total theatre to a new level." Nils Olav Sæverås (29.05.2009), Elephant Stories, Bergensavisen.no, 01.08.2010, http://www.ba.no/puls/article4364680.ece