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Neither Victim nor Executioner - Expanding the Battle Zone

Neither Victim nor Executioner - Expanding the Battle Zone by Tore Vagn Lid/Transiteatret-Bergen was the fourth episode of the theatre series To Be Continued... Rather than making the music and the musician the accompaniment, an aesthetic assistant from the camouflaged orchestral pit, the roles were switched. The performance was what can be called an audio play with music or vice versa. The musical material was based on developed fragments of classical material from Wagner to Stravinsky, and was realized by two actors, two singers, violin, cello and drums.

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(Objekt ID 4776)
Object type Production
Premiere Navember 4, 2005
Produced by Tore Vagn Lid/Transiteatret Bergen
Audience Adults
Language Norwegian
Keywords Musical theatre, Theatre, Concert, Movie
Running period Navember 4, 2005  
Website Transiteatret-Bergen
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Audiovisual enlargements of the battle zone by Tore Vagn Lid/Transiteatret-Bergen:

"With the performance Neither Victim nor Executioner - Expanding the Battle Zone (the title refers to an essay by Albert Camus) the objective has not been to stage or to dramatise Houellebecq’s novel, but to capture and present some central passages and reasoning from the text as an important part of a more expanded scenic whole of sound, light, video and my own texts. By placing Houellebecq’s uncompromised textual passages in new scenic, visual and – not least – musical contexts, my wish is to find, enlarge, oppose and perhaps also discover new dimensions and sound images in a (at least for me) important novel text. In the shadow of his more famous novels such as "Atomised" and "Platform", it is interesting to see how Houellebecq here – as early as 1994 – reaches the fundamental insights and experiences in a battle zone camouflaged as a flexible sphere of pleasure; a scary scenario with a distinct dramatic sparkle, without originally being meant for the stage."

Source: Transiteatret-Bergen, transiteatret.com, 01.08.2010, http://www.transiteatret.com/proboddel.htm

Contributors (11)
Name Role
Rune Andreassen – Stage design
Kyrre Bjørkås – Stage design
Thorolf Thuestad – Sound design
Tor Christian Faugstad Bleikli – Performer
Marko Kanic – Performer
Jessica Naeser – Performer
Torbjørn Bakker – Musician (bass klarinett)
Jon Klavenes – Musician (slagverk)
Gunn Berit Kleiveland – Musician (cello)
Eva Bergh – Voiceover
Arild Vestre – Voiceover
Performance dates
Navember 6, 2005BIT Teatergarasjen Show
Navember 5, 2005BIT Teatergarasjen Show
Navember 4, 2005BIT Teatergarasjen Worldwide premiere