Jeg kommer tilbake i kveld* (I will return tonight)

Jeg kommer tilbake i kveld* (I will return tonight) is a theatre production by Agder Theatre, produced in 2014, and with basis in a text by Gaute Heivoll.

Bodil Kvamme directed it.

Except for some shorter texts is Jeg kommer tilbake i kveld Heivoll's debut as a playwright.

*Not yet translated into the English. The title within parentheses is the Norwegian title's literal meaning.

Information

(Objekt ID 41411)
Object type Production
Premiere September 12, 2014
Produced by Kilden Theatre
Based on Jeg kommer tilbake i kveld* (I will return tonight) by Gaute Heivoll
Audience Adults
Language Norwegian
Keywords Theatre
Running period September 12, 2014  
Duration Approximately an hour
Website Agder Teater
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At the website of Kilden the following, among other things, is written about Jeg kommer tilbake i kveld* (I will return tonight):

"Jeg kommer tilbake i kveld is the Southern Norwegian writer Gaute Heivoll's debut as a playwright. The play builds on and goes further from Heivoll's critically acclaimed novel The Sky Archive (2008).

January 10 1945 Louis Hogganvik was arrested by Gestapo, brought to 'The Archive' in Kristiansand and tortured. After the ninth day in capture Hogganvik committed suicide, and was brought to and dumped outside of Oksøy lighthouse to hide the mistreatment.

Gaute Heivoll fictionalises on, and in his fiction the following happens:

Eight years after World War II Theodora, Louis Hogganvik's widow, travels to Germany to confront her husband's torturer and executioner, SS-Hauptsturmführer Rudolf Kerner. Theodora meets his wife and daughter. 

Jeg kommer tilbake i kveld is about guilt, punishment and forgiveness. About choices and dignity, the necessity of truth, and the impossibility of oblivion.

Or: Is truth a necessary foundation for human co-existence? How necessary is truth to be able to reconcile, with one's own history or with each other? To which degree are we able to handle truth?"

SOURCES:

Agder Theatre, kilden.com, 11.08.2014,  http://www.kilden.com/arrangement/jeg-kommer-tilbake-i-kveld

Import from the Scenekunst.no list of openings 11.08.2014

*Not yet translated into the English. The title within parentheses is the Norwegian title's literal meaning.

Contributors (8)
Name Role
Gaute Heivoll – Script
Bodil Kvamme – Direction
Dordi Strøm – Stage design
Dordi Strøm – Costume design
Kine E. H. Kvendseth – Lighting design
Turid Gunnes – Actor
Henriette Marø – Actor
Anne Ma Usterud – Actor
Performance dates
September 12, 2014 18.30 – Teater- og Operasalen, Kilden Worldwide premiere