FUNNY
- part one
Funny (2003) by Baktruppen. Asphalt, sewage and little Moses floating down the Nile. Asphalt. Pretty dull. Then it appears that the basket in which Moses came drifting down the Nile was daubed with asphalt. FUNNY. If it wasn't for the asphalt, little Moses would have drowned and there wouldn't be a single commandment. Hark! Asphalt makes a difference.
Information
(Objekt ID 6093)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | August 29, 2003 |
| Produced by | Baktruppen |
| Audience | Adults |
| Number of events | 3 |
| Language | Norwegian |
| Keywords | Street theatre, Installation, Musical theatre, Performance, Post-dramatic theatre, Theatre, Comedy, Concert, Work-in-progress |
| Running period | August 29, 2003 — August 31, 2003 |
| Website | Baktruppen |
Requirements to venue
| Blackout | No |
The offices of Baktruppen in the street Dælenggata is transformed into an amphi stage. The audience sits behind the large shop windows glancing out on the street and Baktruppen. Wonderland is here. Strange things are constantly taking place. Nothing is too good to be true. See for yourself. Because when you look, things will look back, changed, all for the better.
FUNNY - how things move - how shoes make the man - how birds get off with beaks - how potatoes make sense - how furniture function - how it goes without saying - how mountains are made - how a hard nut cracks - how there's plenty more fish in the sea - how clouds come and go - how some talk Chinese - how the wind blows - how you always do the right thing - how nobody knows - how accidents happen - how the opera singers sing - how sorrows are shaken off - how dreams come true - how it just goes on and on - how something is made of something - how stars look so small - how sleeping is a pleasure - how apples fall - how new it all seems - how shrimps move backwards - how you sit on the fence - how fingers grow nails - how wolfs howl with wolfs - how snowflakes turn into snow - how people laugh - how windows are seen through - how some people get into trains - how practice makes perfect - how it could be otherwise
Source:
Baktruppen, 03.09.2010, www.baktruppen.org
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Øyvind Berg | – Co-creator |
| Ingvild Holm | – Co-creator |
| Jørgen Knudsen | – Co-creator |
| Per Henrik Svalastog | – Co-creator |
| Bo Krister Wallström | – Co-creator |
| Worm Winther | – Co-creator |
| August 31, 2003 – Dæhlenenggata 31, Baktruppen | Show |
| August 30, 2003 – Dæhlenenggata 31, Baktruppen | Show |
| August 29, 2003 – Dæhlenenggata 31, Baktruppen | Worldwide premiere |
Anders Eiebakke, Søndagstekst, 01.09.2003, Kunstkritikk.no.:
"The troupe's amateurism, which at its worst is almost painful to watch, functioned excellently (...) There was a long series of 'takes' and 're-takes'," interrupted by a feather-clad Trine Falch summing up a number of trivial events in the street the audience had already seen as theatre. And then we sung, all of us, the most impossible lyrics of all times to familiar melodies. Good TV? Yes!"