Blasted
Blasted was a staged reading by Kate Pendry at The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater) in collaboration with the competence centre The Norwegian Actors Centre. Blasted was based on the play by Sarah Kane.
Kate Pendry directed it.
The action in Sarah Kane’s first play Blasted takes place in an anonymous luxury hotel in Leeds, but the reference is the war in Bosnia during the 1990es.
Information
(Objekt ID 7084)| Object type | Production |
| Produced by | |
| In collaboration with | The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater), The Norwegian Actors Centre |
| Based on | Blasted by Sarah Kane |
| Audience | Adults |
| Language | English |
| Keywords | Theatre, Reading |
| Running period | January 14, 2009 |
| Website | Kate Pendry MySpace, Det Åpne Teater, Norsk Skuespillersenter |
Blasted by Sarah Kane describes the fear and anxiety of three persons thrown into the madness of war. They are trapped in a war zone, a universe of war no one can escape. Blasted also explores the emotional and physical parallel between war and violence in close relations and the correlation between private and public fascism. In the intersection between sensitivity and violence lays the road into the human soul’s darkest core open.
Kate Pendry also directed a Norwegian-language reading of Blasted/Utbombet by Sarah Kane in The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater) the autumn of 2006.
SOURCES:
The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater), detapneteater.no, 09.10.2010, http://www.detapneteater.no/pub/daat/nyheter/?aid=287&cid=189&sac=all&viewall=1
The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater), detapneteater.no, 09.10.2010, http://www.detapneteater.no/pub/daat/forestillinger/?aid=963&cid=17&sac=all&viewall=1#daat
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Sarah Kane | – Playwright |
| Kate Pendry | – Direction |
| Cathrine Kleivdal | – Lighting design |
| Malmfrid Hovsveen Hallum | – Actor |
| Benedikte Lindbeck | – Actor |
| Mai Lise Rasmussen | – Actor |
| Terje Skonseng Naudeer | – Actor |
| Niklas Westerberg | – Actor |
| Cathrine Kleivdal | – Lighting technician |
| Kate Pendry | – Producer |
| February 20, 2009 – Hallen, The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater) | Show |
| January 24, 2009 – Hallen, The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater) | Show |
| January 23, 2009 – Hallen, The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater) | Show |
| January 22, 2009 – Hallen, The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater) | Show |
| January 21, 2009 – Hallen, The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater) | Show |
| January 17, 2009 – Hallen, The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater) | Show |
| January 16, 2009 – Hallen, The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater) | Show |
| January 15, 2009 – Hallen, The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater) | Show |
| January 14, 2009 – Hallen, The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater) | Show |
Elisabeth Rygg, Nådeløst teater (literally: Ruthless Theatre), Aftenposten 19.01.2010:
"Sarah Kane used unusually strong effects. Kate Pendry goes in the opposite direction. In the rehearsal room of The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater) three actors sit on each their chair. They each hold their scripts. Next to them sits a prompter doubling as a narrator during the performance. The fifth performer sits in the audience. The actors read. Only at rare occasions they exit their roles as readers to act. It happens when Ian masturbates or rapes, and when Cate screams out her fear and lack of power. The action is grotesque and cruel. At The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater), it is also given a vulnerable undertone. But Blasted is a staged reading for an audience willing to enter the universe of evil. That is the message from the playwright. Evil exists."