The Dahmer Syndrome

The Dahmer Syndrome is a production by Øystein Johansen, produced in 2014, and with text by M. H. Hallum.

Øystein Johansen directed it.

The production builds on reflections upon Jeffrey Dahmer's story, and is a sequel to A Thing of Beauty from 2013.

Information

(Objekt ID 40766)
Object type Production
Premiere August 27, 2014
Produced by
Coproducers Black Box Teater, , Brakke Grond Theater
Audience Adults
Keywords Theatre
Running period August 27, 2014  
Website Black Box Teater , BUNNYHEAD PRODUCTIONS
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At the webpage of Black Box Teater the following, among other things, is written about The Dahmer Syndrome by Øyvind Johansen:

"In 1991 Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested and accused of murder. In his apartment the police found rotted meat and dozens of Polaroid photos Dahmer had taken of his victims as they were bound and butchered. In his freezer they found body parts neatly wrapped in plastic bags.

In this production director Øystein Johansen dissects the mechanisms of cruelty, while examining the relationship between sexuality and perversion. Onstage five men are captured in a box of glass. They have been stored like the leaves of a book, and been locked inside like butterflies in a case. Through this diorama Dahmer's universe unfolds.

The Dahmer Syndrome is Øystein Johansen's second production in which he confronts Jeffrey Dahmer's perverted logic. Dahmer and other 'lone wolves' work as prisms to examination of the themes obsession and isolation, and how these two reinforce one another.

A Thing of Beauty had its premiere at Black Box Teater the autumn of 2013 and won Natt & Dag's Oslo award for best performing arts."

SOURCES:

Black Box Teater, blackbox.no, 27.06.2014,  http://www.blackbox.no/content/titlePresentation.php?tid=2295

Import from the Scenekunst.no list of openings 27/06-2014

Contributors (14)
Name Role
Malmfrid Hovsveen Hallum – Text
Jonas Rutgeerts – Dramatised by
Øystein S. Johansen – Direction
Hans Kristen Hyrve – Composer
Breg Horemans – Visual design
Yuri Schreuders – Lighting design
Erich Brauer – Graphic designer
Erwin Dörr – Performer
Øystein S. Johansen – Performer
Marius Mensink – Performer
Jurrien Remkes – Performer
Kajetan Uranitsch – Performer
Igor Vrebac – Performer
Marius Mensink – Photo
Performance dates
August 27, 2014 19.00 – Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) Worldwide premiere