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| Forestillingsprogram for Wakka Wakka og Figurteatret i Nordlands produksjon Saga (2014) | February 20, 2014 | Download |
Saga
Saga is a puppetry production by Wakka Wakka Productions in collaboration with Nordland Visual Theatre, produced in 2012.
The text was created by Gwendolyn Warnock, Kirjan Waage and the ensemble. The concept, direction and stage design was by Kirjan Waage and Gwendolyn Warnock together.
Wakka Wakka Productions received a Drama Desk Special Award in 2013, and in the reason it was said that the award was given "for sophisticated puppet theatre, as represented by this season's Saga, that explores with wit, imagination, and insight serious issues of our times."
The production toured Norway with The Norwegian Touring Theatre in 2014.
Information
(Objekt ID 38085)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | December 7, 2012 |
| Produced by | Wakka Wakka Productions |
| Coproducers | Nordland Visual Theatre |
| In collaboration with | The Norwegian Touring Theatre (Riksteatret) |
| Audience | Adults |
| Keywords | Puppetry |
| Running period | December 7, 2012 |
| Website | Wakka Wakka |
"Gunnar Oddmundson dreamt of success and had great plans for the future, but then the Icelandic economy collapsed and sat a new world record in national bank bankruptcy. When his family leaves him and the bank threatens to take his house and his car, the family heroes of the past are awoken to life. The time of rebellion has come, and blood revenge rules!
Formerly Wakka Wakka has received a number of awards and good reviews for the productions Fabrik and Baby Universe, both of which have toured Norway.
Saga is supported by Arts Council Norway, the county of Nordland through Nordland Visual Theatre, New York State Council on the Arts, The Eugene O'Neill Center and The Jim Henson Foundation."
Sources:
The Norwegian Touring Theatre, www.riksteatret.no 12.03.2014, http://www.riksteatret.no/repertoar/saga/
Import from the Scenekunst.no list of openings 07/01-2014
Theatermania.com, www.theatermania.com, 12.03.2014, http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/05-2013/the-58th-annual-drama-desk-award-winners-are-annou_65186.html
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Gwendolyn Warnock | – Script |
| Kirjan Waage | – Script |
| Gwendolyn Warnock | – Concept/Idea |
| Gwendolyn Warnock | – Direction |
| Kirjan Waage | – Direction |
| Lars Petter Hagen | – Music |
| Gwendolyn Warnock | – Stage design |
| Kirjan Waage | – Stage design |
| Gwendolyn Warnock | – Costume design |
| Gro Sundre | – Costume (Kostymevedlikehold - Riksteatret) |
| Kirjan Waage | – Puppet designer |
| Andrew Manjuck | – Sound design |
| Leo Martin | – Sound design |
| Thor Gunnar Thorvaldsson | – Sound (Riksteatret) |
| Jan Erik Skarby | – Lighting design |
| Elizabeth Hara | – Puppeteer |
| Andrea Ösp Karlsdóttir | – Puppeteer |
| Jon Levin | – Puppeteer |
| Andrew Manjuck | – Puppeteer |
| Peter Russo | – Puppeteer |
| Kirjan Waage | – Puppeteer |
| Gudjon Thorsteinn Palarsson | – Voiceover (Voice over) |
| Kirjan Waage | – Puppet maker |
| Gwendolyn Warnock | – Mask design |
| Lasse Eriksson | – Props (Riksteatret) |
| Pelle Gustavsen | – Stage manager (på Riksteatret) |
| Morten Lie | – Stage Manager (Riksteatret) |
| Magnus Boyd | – Lighting supervisor (Riksteatret) |
| Pelle Gustavsen | – Tour manager (Riksteatret) |
| Gabrielle Brechner | – Producer (i USA) |
| Rebecca Mathisen | – Producer (på Riksteatret) |
| Charlotte Bøving | – Research |
| February 27, 2014 – The Main Hall, Sandnes Kulturhus | Tour Premiere |
| February 20, 2014 19:00 – Lillegull, Riksteatret, The Norwegian Touring Theatre (Riksteatret) | New opening |
| March 10, 2013 – Baruch Performing Arts Center | New opening |
| December 7, 2012 – Figurteateret i Nordland, Nordland Visual Theatre | Worldwide premiere |
Jason Zinoman, New York Times, A Family Manipulated by an Economic Crisis, 25.03.2013:
"Kirjan Waage and Gwendolyn Warnock, who together wrote and directed this one-hour show at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, tackle macroeconomics by applying a microscope to the lives of a family affected by the Icelandic financial crisis. That it's staged with imaginative theatricality and precise physical grace is less impressive than the realism of its carefully observed portraits. There's puppet sex and pathos as well. But at its best Saga is about the overlooked human impact of the economic meltdown."
Angela Ashman, Village Voice, Saga on Thin Ice, 20.03.2013:
"Kirjan Waage and Gwendolyn Warnock's moving script (the moments with his young look-alike son are especially tender) makes you root for him to find a happy way out. If there's one gripe to make, it's that the creators go for a dark, over-the-top finish when a subtler landing would have been more satisfying. But the work is so full of big laughs and offers so much to love - Waage's wonderful puppet design, an appearance by the Northern Lights, and other delightful surprises (warning: you may get a little wet) - that all you'll remember is how much fun you had."
"Wakka Wakka's six puppeteers master their craft to the point of perfection. Light, sound, movement, comic timing, types, masks, lines, objects - everything is complete, to the smallest detail. Not as a copy, but through the fine art of suggestion, and what it starts of imagination and the ability to associate freely in the spectators."