Nothing of me

Nothing of me (2015) was a theatre production by The National Stage, based on the play by Arne Lygre.

Kamilla Bach Mortensen directed it.

Information

(Objekt ID 48904)
Object type Production
Premiere May 9, 2015
Produced by The National Stage
Based on Nothing of me by Arne Lygre
Audience Adults
Language Norwegian
Keywords Theatre, Drama, Chamber play
Running period May 9, 2015  
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At the webpage of The National Stage the following, among other things, is written about Nothing of me:

"Nothing of me is about a mature woman who initiates a relationship with a far younger man. She leaves her husband and child to live out the passion with the young one. But will this become her great happiness? Or will the past and what has happened earlier in their lives catch up with them?

The Danish director Kamilla Bach Mortensen has made her mark at the Betty Nansen theatre in Copenhagen, among other places. Now she makes her Norwegian debut with Arne Lygre's strong and poetic text about the choice of directions in life. On her team are the stage designers Ingvild Grande and Lea Burrows from the art collaboration Sir Grand Lear."

SOURCE:

The National Stage, www.dns.no, http://www.dns.no/program/2015/ingenting-av-meg/

Contributors (17)
Name Role
Arne Lygre – Playwright
Kamilla Bach Mortensen – Direction
Solrun Toft Iversen – Dramaturge
Sir Grand Lear – Stage design
Sir Grand Lear – Costume design
Arne Kambestad – Lighting design
Stian Isaksen – Actor (Han)
Marianne Nielsen – Actor (Mennesket)
Ane Skumsvoll – Actor (Hun)
André Søfteland – Actor (Eks)
Silje Lie – Mask design
Magnus Holm – Props
Cathrine Hopstock – Props
Carl Mehl – Stage manager
Odd Mehus – Photo
Bjarte Våge – Sound technician
Nina Agnethe Kopperdal – Prompter
Performance dates
Festivals (1)
Press coverage

Lillian Bikset, Tvilstungt (literally: Heavy with doubt), Dagbladet 21.05.2015:

"There is a 'Now' in Nothing of me, in the time-plane ending the play. In Kamilla Bach Mortensen's direction for The National Stage it seems as if everything leading up to this time as if told with hindsight. In the distanced, irony-laden 'I know better know'-like tone is a certainty about how things will turn out and what will happen. In many ways we can say that this distance shortens the effect, because the knowing- or rather, the impression of knowing- weakens the interest for what happens earlier. (…) Arne Lygre's different dialectic levels show both the opposition between and the mutual dependence of experience and consciousness. How does the thoughts about an experience affect the experience in itself? And the other way around: How does the experience affect the thoughts? When his characters describe their actions, their emotions and their choices, they interpret them, and they decide how to understand themselves. In the DNS version doubt is spread, about how well they understand themselves, but also about how much they want to or are able to understand."