What the Rhinoceros Saw
What the Rhinoceros Saw (2018) is a planned theatre production for children by The Norwegian Theatre, based on the play What the Rhinoceros Saw when it Looked on the Other Side of the Fence by Jens Raschke/Rasche. The production will be performed in the theatre's venue Scene 3.
Ivar Tindberg directs it.
Information
(Objekt ID 80017)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | February 15, 2018 |
| Produced by | The Norwegian Theatre |
| Based on | What the Rhinoceros Saw when it Looked on the Other Side of the Fence by Jens Raschke |
| Audience | Children (from 11) |
| Audience size | 649 |
| Number of events | 13 |
| Language | Norwegian Nynorsk |
| Keywords | Performance for children, Theatre |
| Running period | February 15, 2018 |
"We are in a pretty normal zoo. Here, many exotic animals lead lazy lives behind the fences. But after the mysterious death of a rhinoceros, a bear moves into the zoo. The bear begins to ask uncomfortable questions: Who are these strange creatures who live on the other side of the fence?
They arrive with trains, and are thin as sticks, striped as zebras, but they walk on two legs, and they don't smell particularly nice. The zebra creatures are more dead than alive. Never before has the bear seen this kind of characters.
The organised life of the marmot, daddy Baboon and all the other animals in the zoo is disturbed by the pushy questions from the bear. When the most awful of all has become part of daily life, the limits for what we can stand have been moved.
In time, one gets used to everything, and a recently moved bear is what it takes to get going.
Award-winning playwright
In the play What the Rhinoceros Saw when it Looked on the Other Side of the Fence, playwright Jens Raschke has imagined the animals' outlook and thoughts to raise questions about violence, social suppression and the collective unconscious. The action is set during World War II and a zoo in the concentration camp Buchenwald.
This zoo actually existed, wall-to-wall with the concentration camp, and it was a popular place to spend the weekends for the citizens of Weimar during the war. The play encourages civilian courage and standing up against suppression. Others' suffering is your concern, too.
The play won the German award for children's theatre in 2014."
SOURCE:
The Norwegian Theatre, 02.11.2017, detnorsketeatret.no, https://www.detnorsketeatret.no/framsyningar/kva-nashornet-sag/
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Jens Raschke | – Playwright |
| Carl Morten Amundsen | – Translation |
| Ivar Tindberg | – Direction |
| Carl Morten Amundsen | – Dramaturge |
| Anders Hasmo | – Dramaturge |
| Stian Hole | – Visual design |
| Charlotte Frogner | – Actor |
| Jonas Fuglevik Urstad | – Actor |
| Paul-Ottar Haga | – Actor |
| Unn Vibeke Hol | – Actor (alternerte med Ellen-Birgitte Winther i 2018) |
| Ellen Birgitte Winther | – Actor (alternerte med Unn Vibeke Hol i 2018) |
| Dag Jenssen | – Photo |
| February 15, 2018 18:00 – Scene 3 (tidligere Prøvesalen), Det Norske Teatret, The Norwegian Theatre | National premiere, Norway |