I Cloni

At the website of Black Box Teater the following, among other things, is written about I Cloni:

"Is it normal to feel like this?

Once I am not filled with euphoria, life becomes unbearable and I only want to die, this sorrow is too much and I am too little, and time doesn't work.

I Cloni - the edge where everything is dissolved, but you keep talking.

What if/imagine if there is death after life.

We shall foolishly move into the blind realm of light. All we can say with certainty is that if there is life after death, it is at least as banal as life, perhaps more, perhaps more intense, more blood and screaming than in any other film. We feel too strongly and too much. We believe in what cannot be seen and cannot be checked. We try to rustle the veils separating the dreamers from the dead.

Learn to appreciate life before you lose both your legs and learn the hard way, and let us drift around the swell into a feeling of community and prison, and see what we can shake out of the spacious sleeves, how many nuts and squirrels we can shake out of the trees on our wild wandering through the woods towards this inn where strangers meet and can be open and transparent because there are no consequences nor expectations and nothing you do will haunt you for life.

This place is even further into the heart of the landscape than where we were in Blue Motel, we are now at the inn, where strangers pass each other and can give so much because strangers do not know what they get. Fully open and transparent reach the doors to all the evil of the world. Shall we hold hands and contact the living?"

Supported by: Arts Council Norway, The Norwegian Actors' Equity Association's fund for freelancers, The Fund for Performing Artists and Dramatikkens hus.

SOURCES:

Black Box Teater, blackbox.no, 29.02.2016,  http://www.blackbox.no/tittel/i-cloni/

Import from the Scenekunst.no list of openings 29.02.2016

Lisa Lie, lisalie.no, 20.02.2016, http://lisalie.no/

Lillian Bikset, Lisa Lie og Pony of No Return åpner assosiasjonsrom i assosiasjonsrom (literally: Lisa Lie and Pony of No Return opens room for association within rooms for association), Dagbladet 21. april 2016:

"Some of the sequences it's easy to find words for, as a general rule, words that usually do not belong together. Several can remind one of paintings by Goya, the way they would have looked if reimagined by Monty Python. Some can give the feeling of being invited into somebody else's fever fantasy. Others evade definitions altogether. The one who is willing to let them may be the one who gets the most out of I cloni, the one who accepts to enter the liberty of the imagination, in sound experiences and images, to just accept that whatever happens, happens. There are contexts here, some of them clear, some more obscure, but this is less a production for analysis than for experience and taking part in the imagining. I cloni opens rooms for free association, and then new rooms for free association within the first rooms. The sound effects build rooms of their own within them again, but the production doesn't stay in either of them long enough for the spectator to call them familiar. Often I cloni takes a new direction."

Amund Grimstad, Å skape eit bilde (literally: To create an image), 26.04.2016, Klassekampen [Oslo]:
"In a genre that is more or less her own, she finds references and inspiration in fairytales, nature and the classic cultural heritage, in a delightful mix of performance, trash and a fundamental distrust in human beings. [...] The highlights may be larger this time, and even though there is more humour than before, the production at times lack direction. [...] And then, Lisa Lie is an excellent poet. When she performs her little texts, downstated and alone, one ought to listen hard."

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