Advice for a Safe Return

Advice for a safe return (2006) is a poetic an humouristic monologue, your guide for a better life. The performance is produced by NONcompany and performed by Lise Risom Olsen who has also written the text. Music by Haavard Pedersen.

Information

(Objekt ID 553)
Object type Production
Premiere August 15, 2006
Produced by NONCompany
Audience Youth, Adults (from 14)
Language Norwegian and English
Keywords Performance, Theatre, Monologue, Music
Running period August 15, 2006  —  2011
Website NONcompany

Requirements to venue

Minimum stage width 310m
Minimum stage depth 26m
Minimum stage height 36m
Lights requirements Min. 4 x par 64, CP62, 4 dimmer channels+controler
Audio requirements cd player, speakers in stereo, sound-mixer 4 channels. (microphone on stand)
Rigging time 30 minutes
Downrigging time 10 minutes
Audience 200
Other The piece is easily adaptable to different rooms. Requires only simple stage lighting. Must be able to make a blackout. If the space is big a microphone on a stand is required.40 min.
More

Advice for a safe return is about trying to find your way in a jungle of good advice, rules and signposts. Many advice and warnings we receive during a day, may be strange, frightening, stupid, give you bad conscience or actually be helpful. This one-woman show is a collection of both the best and worst, gathered over a years time from different places and sources. What influence can these advice have on our lifes? What happens if you try to listen to them all? Can they actually help you? Do they make us safer? Or more nervous?

The monologue has been performed in an earlier version at Landmark, Bergen museum of comtemporary art, and Skuretfestivalen in Trondheim.

Performed in Norwegian or English.

Source:

NONcompany. 04.04.2011: http://noncompany.no/advices.html

Contributors (7)
Name Role
Lise Risom Olsen – Text
Lise Risom Olsen – Concept/Idea
Håvard Pedersen (from 2008 to 2011) – Music
Lise Vestby (from 2006 to 2006) – Video/Film
Leo Preston (from 2006 to 2006) – Lighting design
Lise Risom Olsen – Actor
Marte Rognerud – Narrator
Performance dates
March 19, 2011Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall action-performance
May 6, 2010Oslo Nye Centralteatret Staged Reading
June 29, 2009Veslestua, Kulturhuset Elvarheim Show
September 30, 2008Skifte / Logen Bar, Det Vestnorske Teateret Show
September 28, 2008Skifte / Logen Bar, Det Vestnorske Teateret Show
August 27, 2006Kafé Skuret, Trondheim Show
August 26, 2006Kafé Skuret, Trondheim Show
August 25, 2006Kafé Skuret, Trondheim Show
August 16, 2006Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall Show
August 15, 2006Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall Worldwide premiere
Festivals (3)
Frilansfestivalen May 6, 2010
Volumfestivalen June 29, 2009
Skuretfestivalen August 25, 2006