Wishful Beginnings

Beat The Drum

Beat The Drum: Wishful Beginnings (2016) was a theatre production by Verk Produksjoner AKA Verk Productions in collaboration with Black Box Teater, Avant Garden and BIT Teatergarasjen. The premiere was performed at Black Box Teater.

Beat The Drum: Wishful Beginnings is created by Fredrik Hannestad, Saila Hyttinen, Tilo Hahn, Signe Becker, Solveig Laland Mohn, Håkon Mathias Vassvik, Per Platou, Anders Mossling, Espen Klouman Høiner, Pernille Mogensen, Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk, Jon Refsdal Moe and Agnes Gry.

Information

(Objekt ID 53181)
Object type Production
Premiere April 6, 2016
Produced by Verk Produksjoner
Coproducers Black Box Teater, BIT Teatergarasjen, Rosendal Teater
Audience Adults
Language Norwegian and English
Keywords Theatre
Running period April 6, 2016  
Duration 1 hour, 30 minutes
Website Black Box Teater, VERK PRODUKSJONER
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At the webpage of Black Box Teater the following, among other things, is written about Beat the drum: Wishful Beginnings:

"It may be about tabula rasa, to start over, to clear the table, it may be about the feeling of sitting in a sinking ship.

Or a sneaking feeling that we have constructed a society around a set of expectations about the future, that now turns out to be life-threatening and wrong. Can it be that the ruling system goes too fast in one direction and nobody quite knows how to steer the ship?

With this as a backdrop we have embarked on a journey during which we have collected stories, we have had countless discussions, we have wandered, we have narrated, recorded, collected, retold and spun on. We have banged our heads against the wall, we have looked to the side, read shadows and tried to give voice to resonance. Perhaps it is about conjuring a ghost or call forth something unknown?"

SOURCE:

Black Box Teater, 30.03.16, http://www.blackbox.no/tittel/beat-the-drum-wishful-beginnings/

Performance dates
October 6, 2017 action-performance
September 28, 2017 19:00 – Høstscena, Ålesund Theatre Festival Show
September 2016 Show
April 17, 2016Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) Show
April 16, 2016Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) Show
April 15, 2016Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) Show
April 14, 2016Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) Show
April 13, 2016Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) Show
April 10, 2016Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) Show
April 9, 2016Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) Show
April 8, 2016Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) Show
April 7, 2016Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) Show
April 6, 2016Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) Worldwide premiere
Festivals (1)
Press coverage

Lillian Bikset, Nok en gang demonstrerer Verk Produksjoner at ett menneskes banalitet er et annets dype visdom. Og omvendt (literally: Yet again Verk Produksjoner AKA Verk Productions demonstrate that the banality of one person is the deep wisdom of another. And vice versa), Dagbladet April 6 2016:

"Where should one draw the limit between universal, recognisable, well-known, trivial and pointless? Where should one put the divide between pretention and parody of pretention, how should one define the difference between sincerity and irony over sincerity? When should recycling be perceived as richness in references, quote and recognition, and when should it be seen as lack or originality, superficial, cheap? When does a loose structure turn into a lack of structure? (...) A characteristic of the naïve-philosophical projects of Verk Produksjoner AKA Verk Productions, is that they both illuminate and disregard questions like those above. Perhaps one could say that they acknowledge such issues, for so to try to make them irrelevant. They do this in form, particularly loosely collected kaleidoscopes of cliché, collages so uncommittedly connected that it, in itself, is not just an invitation to subjective interpretation, but to loose opinion. They do this in content, with themes so floating that they, despite all the will for discussing life, is condemned to seem superficial, vague, both when the performer analyses it, and when the performer lets go of it while it is still unexamined."