The Wedding Dress
The Wedding Dress is a theatre production by Klovholt & Kahn.
The Wedding Dress is a play by the Brazilian playwright Nelson Rodrigues, written and staged in 1943. Anne Regine Klovholt has translated and rewritten the text, which revolves around newlywed Adeleide who is brutally run over by a seemingly random car in the streets of Rio de Janeiro.
Information
(Objekt ID 7806)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | March 24, 2009 |
| Produced by | Klovholt & Kahn |
| Coproducers | Black Box Teater |
| Based on | The Wedding Dress by Nelson Rodrigues |
| Audience | Adults |
| Language | Norwegian |
| Keywords | Theatre, Video, Theatre of the absurd, Comedy, Tragicomedy/Seriocomedy |
| Running period | March 24, 2009 |
The Wedding Dress by Klovholt & Kahn is about Adeleide’s thoughts and hallucinations in the minutes from the car hits her until she dies. During these minutes she speculates, romanticises and rewrites the intrigues of her life and the events which may have led to her death. It is about her husband, her sister and her confidante, the ghost of the prostitute Madame Clessi.
Eventually, gradually, she realises that her life may have been banal, random, insignificant and ugly. And that the impossible project of finding the incomprehensive connection between reality and fiction may be life itself.
"If one is able to dream, one is also able to become very unhappy", Klovholt & Kahn write about The Wedding Dress.
Source: Wegge, Sara, Julie Rongved Amundsen og Kristian Seltun (red.) (2009). The Wedding Dress. Program for Black Box Teater Oslo: Spring 2009. Black Box Teater [Oslo]
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Anne Regine Klovholt | – Adaption |
| Anne Regine Klovholt | – Translation |
| Anne Regine Klovholt | – Direction |
| Gaute Gjøl Dahle | – Stage design |
| Catherine Kahn | – Stage design |
| Catherine Kahn | – Costume |
| Gaute Gjøl Dahle | – Video/Film |
| Catherine Kahn | – Video/Film |
| Gaute Gjøl Dahle | – Sound design |
| Catherine Kahn | – Sound design |
| Marika Enstad | – Actor |
| Alexandra Gjerpen | – Actor |
| Mai Lise Rasmussen | – Actor |
| Ramiro Silveira | – Actor |
| March 28, 2009 – Lille scene (Marstrandgata), Black box teater | Show |
| March 28, 2009 – Lille scene (Marstrandgata), Black box teater | Show |
| March 27, 2009 – Lille scene (Marstrandgata), Black box teater | Show |
| March 26, 2009 – Lille scene (Marstrandgata), Black box teater | Show |
| March 25, 2009 – Lille scene (Marstrandgata), Black box teater | Show |
| March 24, 2009 – Lille scene (Marstrandgata), Black box teater | National premiere, Norway |