Doppler

SOURCES:

Import from the Scenekunst.no list of openings 30.11.2015

Trøndelag Theatre, trondelag-teater.no, 30.11.2015, http://www.trondelag-teater.no/forestillinger/doppler/

Lillian Bikset, Trassig fellesskap (literally: Stubborn community), Dagbladet January 30 2016:

"Erlend Loe's novel is told in first person. The adaptation to a large degree uses its words, its humour and its chronology, but it is - true to the form of theatre - more of a conversation than a monologue. Doppler's stubbornness and Doppler's refusal of responsibility, Doppler's free-thinking and Doppler's sense for oddities do not just make a mark on Andreas Stoltenberg Granerud's delightfully hard-headed interpretation of the role, but also the secondary characters. They are all reflected through his view of them: Somewhat anarchically inclined, resourceful, verbal and single-minded, indeed, rather often completely oddball. Inputs from outside of the text- such as a protest from the wife, a choral singing sequence, a bunch of commentaries to the performance and the source ('I'm only saying what Erlend Loe wrote', 'You have to imagine it') - have been included. Theatrical tricks, machinery and techniques are made visible with meta-childish enjoyment. But the idea of theatre without illusions is also, of course, an illusion. In some moments, such as when snow falls in huge amounts, it is hard not to feel immersed in the production, never mind how opposed to immersion it declares itself to be."