| Title | File type | Publiseringsdato | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sesongprogram for Nationaltheatret høst 2014. | August 2014 | Download |
The Brat
Musikklab volum 3* (Music Lab Volume 3)
The Brat (2014) was a theatre production by The Torshov Theatre/The National Theatre. The production is based on the musical by Harald Tusberg and Egil Monn-Iversen, in turn based on the play by Oskar Braaten. The production was staged at The Torshov Theatre.
Bjarte Hjelmeland directed it.
Kjersti Botn Sandal played the role of Milja.
Mari Maurstad played the role of Lovisa.
The production was the third part of The Torshov Theatre's musical laboratory series called Musikklab.
Information
(Objekt ID 42356)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | Navember 7, 2014 |
| Produced by | The National Theatre, The Torshov Theatre |
| Based on | The Brat by Oskar Braaten; Ungen by Oskar Braaten, Harald Tusberg, Egil Monn-Iversen |
| Audience | Adults |
| Language | Norwegian dialect |
| Keywords | Theatre, Musical |
| Running period | Navember 7, 2014 |
| Website | Nationaltheatret |
At the webpage of The National Theatre the following, among other things, is written about The Brat:
"Buy a song for a shilling! Long before the media society sated our hunger for news and tear-dripping stories, one could simply buy a song. Disasters, death and unhappy love were dear themes. And the broadside ballad was the inspiration when Egil Monn-Iversen and Harald Tusberg during the 1970es made one of the first Norwegian musicals, The Brat, based on Oskar Braaten's play from 1911. The story of the factory worker Milja, who 'gets in trouble' and in deep despair wants to give her kid to a rich married couple on the other side of the river, is as made for a broadside ballad. The difference is just that where the ballad devotes itself to sorrow and poverty, Oskar Braaten's The Brat has social sting.
The poet of the east side, as Oskar Braaten was called, described the battle for survival before the welfare state spread its wings above us. And those who had to fight the hardest, Braaten found, were the women on the lowest rungs of society's ladder. He gave us characters such as the social rebel Hønse-Lovisa (literally: Hen Lovisa), the dutiful Milja and the challenger Petrina.
And what is more natural than that the group of actors who has opened the musical laboratory series Musikklab a stone's throw from the river Akerselva, the red factory buildings and the house of Hønse-Lovisa, takes hold of this material? Musikklab wants to go to the core of Oskar Braaten's text. They want to examine the tradition of the broadside ballad, and to see if they can find back to the original east side idioms. Stage design and costumes will be right for their time, as in early 1900es, but the relationships and the character work will be interpreted in a contemporary, modern way. With that, this may become a rougher version of The Brat?"
SOURCES:
Import from the Scenekunst.no list of openings 09.09.2014
The National Theatre, www.nationaltheatret.no, 05.10.2014, http://www.nationaltheatret.no/MUSIKKLAB+VOLUM+3%3A+Ungen.b7C_wRfIZl.ips
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Oskar Braaten | – Playwright |
| Harald Tusberg | – Playwright |
| Bjarte Hjelmeland | – Adapted by |
| Lars Jacobsen | – Adapted by |
| Bjarte Hjelmeland | – Direction |
| Lars Jacobsen | – Choreography |
| Simon Revholt | – Musical direction (Tangenter) |
| Egil Monn-Iversen | – Composer |
| Njål Helge Mjøs | – Dramaturge |
| Milja Salovaara | – Stage design |
| Milja Salovaara | – Costume design |
| Simon Revholt | – Musical arrangement |
| Mari Røsjø | – Sound |
| Ulf Bjørklid | – Light |
| Bernhard Arnø | – Actor (Krestoffer / Doktoren / Gurina Neger) |
| Tone Danielsen | – Actor (Lagreta / Krestina) |
| Lena Kristin Ellingsen | – Actor (Petrina) |
| Julie Støp Husby | – Actor (Sersjant-Petra) |
| Mari Maurstad | – Actor (Hønse-Lovisa) |
| Hanne Skille Reitan | – Actor (Olina) |
| Kjersti Botn Sandal | – Actor (Milja) |
| Christian Skolmen | – Actor (Julius) |
| Helge Ellingsen | – Musician (Bass - alternerte med Gjermund Silset ) |
| Marie Klåpbakken | – Musician (Fiolin - alternerte med Lise Voldsdal) |
| Almir Meskovic | – Musician (Trekkspill) |
| Gjermund Silset | – Musician (Bass - alternerte med Helge Ellingsen) |
| Lise Sørensen Voldsdal | – Musician (Fiolin - alternerte med Marie Klåpbakken) |
| Greta Bremseth | – Mask design |
| Pelle Enebro | – Props |
| Claudio Aiello | – Stage manager |
| Ole Fredrik Pedersen | – Stage Manager |
| Lars Jacobsen | – Director’s assistant |
| Stine Berg Knudsen | – Costume production supervisor |
| Lise Roesen | – Prompter |
| Ola A. Neegaard | – Producer |
| Arne Abrahamsen | – Production assistant |
| Britt Holm | – Dresser |
| Monica Lindanger | – Administration (Informsjonsansvarlig) |
| Navember 7, 2014 19:30 – Torshovteatret - Hovedsalen | Opening night |