Pilk's Madhouse Show

Pilk's Madhouse Show was a production by The Madhouse Company. 

Pilk's Madhouse Show was performed at Club 7 in November 1973. It was a completely crazy show of which the Club-7ers had never seen the like: joking around with everyone and everything, absurd and wild humour – and at the end the audience was ordered out of the theatre and into the street on Munkedamsveien, where the performers were dressed up as police who directed the traffic, and marched with the audience twice around the block, frequently stopping to take in scenes such as bombs exploding, heads on fire, a human cannonball, etc.

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(Objekt ID 52058)
Object type Production
Premiere Navember 6, 1973
Produced by
Audience Adults
Language English
Keywords Theatre of the absurd, Satire, Comedy, Jester Theatre
Last changed 18.09.2026
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SOURCE:

Førland, Tor Egil: Club 7. Pax Forlag A/S, Oslo, 1998

Contributors (1)
Name Role
Marc Weil – Performer
Performance dates
Navember 10, 1973 – The cellar in Oslo Concert Hall’s D-block extra performance
Navember 9, 1973 – The cellar in Oslo Concert Hall’s D-block extra performance
Navember 7, 1973 20:30 – The cellar in Oslo Concert Hall’s D-block Show
Navember 6, 1973 20:30 – The cellar in Oslo Concert Hall’s D-block National premiere, Norway
Press coverage

Dagfinn Austad, 07.11.1973, Dagbladet [Oslo]:
"But the madness cannot be described, it must be experienced."