Magical Evening

In Magical Evening by Stella Polaris, the audience was in a worn down and half abandoned vaudeville theatre sometime in the early nineteen hundreds. Both the animals and the audience were gone. All that was left is a handful of actors. They took on all the roles. The audience followed them onstage and offstage in a variety of circus nostalgia where anything could and would happen. There were pictures, colourful costumes, a hint of circus and a dream of love. Juggling, slackrope and magic. Flying acrobatics and flamenco. Even though the animals were gone, they were still present in the actors’ fantasies - and through them also for the audience watching.

Here was the gypsy poetry, here were the wayfaring artists. Who where they? Where did they come from? Here were creatures from the whole world, fetched in boxes from jungle and nature.

Information

(Objekt ID 4793)
Object type Production
Premiere 2006
Produced by Stella Polaris
Audience Families, Children
Language Norwegian
Keywords Variety show, Circus, Dance, Fantasy, Contemporary circus, Theatre, Clownery, Jester Theatre
Running period 2006  
Website Stella Polaris

Requirements to venue

Blackout No
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In Magical Evening by Stella Polaris the audience met rhythms, juggling, slapstick and magical numbers. Here was the crying and smiling clown doing his poetic magic. The language was fiery and poetic, the music was intense with ethnical flow. All was united by one, common goal: to keep the dreams alive.

Magical Evening by Stella Polaris was built around different acts, as in a variety or a circus show, but the audience could still glimpse literary frames telling stories about the performers’ destiny within the theatre.

Texts were written by Øystein Vingard Wold, inspired by the fairytale The Heron Bird and the Student plus self-composed fragments about love.

Source: Stella Polaris, stella-polaris.com, 01.08.2010, http://www.stella-polaris.com/en/performances/magical-evening

Contributors (2)
Name Role
Per Spildra Borg – Co-creator
Merete Klingen – Co-creator
Performance dates
2006 Worldwide premiere