Mr. Marmalade

Mr. Marmalade (2016) was a theatre production by The Norwegian Theatre, based on the play by Noah Haidle.

Glenn André Kaada directed it.

Sara Khorami played the leading role of five year old Lucy, and Ola G. Furuseth played the title role, the imaginary friend Mr. Marmalade.

Information

(Objekt ID 53078)
Object type Production
Premiere April 9, 2016
Produced by The Norwegian Theatre
Based on Mr. Marmalade by Noah Haidle
Audience size 792
Number of events 14
Language Norwegian Nynorsk
Keywords Theatre
Running period April 9, 2016  
Website Det Norske Teatret
More

At the website of The Norwegian Theatre the following, among other things, is written about Mr. Marmalade:

"How do children look at us adults? And what happens to a four-year old who has soap operas, teenage girls and their boyfriends as her babysitters?

Lucy is such a four-year old. She has found herself an imaginary friend who is a sadist as well as a drug addict: Mr. Marmalade. A business man with an urge for cocaine and porn, who has one thing in common with her mother, no time for Lucy. Because of this, his assistant often visits instead, the suppressed Bradley, who often has his ass kicked. Lucy's mother often gets home late with different men."

SOURCES:

The Norwegian Theatre, www.detnorsketeatret.no, 21.04.16, http://www.detnorsketeatret.no/framsyningar/herr-marmelade/

Import from the Scenekunst.no list of openings 10.02.2016

Contributors (19)
Name Role
Noah Haidle – Playwright
Gunstein Bakke – Translation
Glenn André Kaada – Direction
Anders Hasmo – Dramaturge
Mari Moen – Dramaturge
Tove Svartsund – Costume (Kostymekoordinator)
Amell Basic – Actor (George)
Espen Reboli Bjerke – Actor (Bradley)
Ulrikke Hansen Døvigen – Actor (Sookie)
Ola G. Furuseth – Actor (Herr Marmelade)
Sara Khorami – Actor (Lucy)
Rolf Kristian Larsen – Actor (Larry)
Heidi Toini Øieren – Actor (Emily)
Åse-Berit Litleskare – Props
Hedda Rønneberg – Stage manager
Dag Jenssen – Photo
Pelle Dengsø – Stage Manager
Tryggve Ildahl – Stage Manager
Gry Hege Espenes – Prompter
Performance dates
April 9, 2016 18:30 – Scene 3 (tidligere Prøvesalen), The Norwegian Theatre National premiere, Norway
Press coverage

Lillian Bikset, Harmløs er ikke moroa i Det Norske Teatrets Herr Marmelade (literally: Harmless, the fun in The Norwegian Theatre's Mr. Marmalade is not), Dagbladet April 14 2016:

"Mr. Marmalade is humour continuously shifting between the playful and the uncomfortable. In the main, Haidle's text and Kaada's manage to balance the effects. From time to other one may find that it goes off track, and becomes too much, too tasteless, too violent, too silly. But that's a point: Lucy's childhood also goes off track, that, too, is too much, too tasteless, too violent and too silly. (...) Sara Khorami plays a four-year old grown up too soon, Rolf Kristian Larsen suicidal five-year old. Both do so with a fascinatingly out-portioned mix of adult and childish features and gestures."