Everything and nothing

In the puppetry performance Everything and nothing by The Puppetry Company Dukkenikkerne the logic of games and dreams is used. The action is episodic and without words. The audience gets to participate in a playful, warm universe with an exciting backdrop of sound.

Information

(Objekt ID 335)
Object type Production
Premiere 2012
Produced by The Puppetry Company Dukkenikkerne
Audience Children (from 3 to 6)
Language Norwegian
Keywords Performance for children, Puppetry
Running period 2012  
Website Dukkenikkerne

Requirements to venue

Minimum stage width 4m
Minimum stage depth 4m
Minimum stage height 2m
Blackout No
Rigging time 60 minutes
Downrigging time 45 minutes
Audience 75
More

Everything and nothing by The Puppetry Company Dukkenikkerne takes place on a small island in a large ocean. Here live the Pelicanstorks and the Slipperknights. The Slipperknights are incredibly curious. They play with everything they can find. Some days hardly anything happens. Other days the sea washes ashore all kinds of strange things. One day there is a Conchylophone filled with stories is left on the beach.

Contributors (14)
Name Role
Gabrielle Barth – Script
Jack Markussen – Script
Monika Solheim – Script
Gabrielle Barth – Idea
Jack Markussen – Idea
Monika Solheim – Idea
Jack Markussen – Stage design
Kato Ådland – Sound design
Gabrielle Barth – Puppeteer
Jan N.C. Holden – Puppeteer
Jack Markussen – Puppeteer
Monika Solheim – Puppeteer
Jack Markussen – Puppet maker
Monika Solheim – Puppet maker
Performance dates
2017 New opening
2012 Worldwide premiere
Press coverage

Jan H. Landro, 26.05.2008, Bergens Tidende [Bergen]:
"Rich feed for the imagination. (...) In The National Venue of Theatre Calixto Bieito tries to lead our ideas about Brand, in Barnas Hus (The Children’s House) Dukkenikkerne goes in the opposite direction. Both methods give good results, but for the audience of three years and older the latter works the best. The performance of The Puppetry Company Dukkenikkerne can start mental processes in all of us, no matter our age. (...) The music by Kato Ådland takes us in many directions and to several continents. It works as a creator of wonder and it builds a foundation for moods and events. (...) I can hardly think anyone will leave this play disappointed."