Recognition
The Psychology of Evil
Recognition – The Psychology of Evil by Grenland Friteater was a solo play with Kjersti Posti Høgli playing four different parts. The production was inspired by the novel The Exception by Christian Jungersen.
A lecture about human evil turns into private confessions and a magic/realistic world opens. Facts and humour mix and end in an absurd TV show. Sliding transitions between research, dream and reality, socio-political experiments and nightmares adapted for the movies.
Information
(Objekt ID 832)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | March 27, 2008 |
| Produced by | Grenland Friteater, Porsgrunn International Theatre Festival |
| Based on | Unntaket by Christian Jungersen |
| Audience | Youth, Adults (from 16) |
| Audience size | 13783 |
| Number of events | 148 |
| Language | Norwegian and English |
| Keywords | Theatre, Lecture, Movie, Performance, Lecture, Solo |
| Running period | March 27, 2008 |
| Website | Grenland Friteater |
Requirements to venue
| Minimum stage width | 9m |
| Minimum stage depth | 8m |
| Minimum stage height | 4m |
| Blackout | Yes |
| Rigging time | 240 minutes |
| Downrigging time | 60 minutes |
| Audience | 100 |
Recognition – The Psychology of Evil by Grenland Friteater placed the language of power and its different aspects on the agenda, ranging from an intimate situation between few persons to the more global examples leading to one group of people exterminating another.
The audience met Hilde Høyer, an expert on genocide. She is an idealist working for the fictional institute IFMO (Institute for Research on Human Evil) at the non-fictional University of Oslo. Here she experiences being harassed and opposed by a colleague. A small work place with resourceful people develops into a nightmare.
When visiting schools, Grenlad Friteater could figure fooling the pupils into thinking they were going to an actual lecture about human evil. Eventually they would understand that it was staged, but the experience could be a useful wake up call for them.
Recognition – The Psychology of Evil by Grenland Friteater won the Daphne award during the Assitej Festival in Kristiansand in 2008.
Source: Grenland Friteater, grenlandfriteater.com, 18.08.2010, http://www.grenlandfriteater.com/show_details.asp?ID=972
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Anne-Sophie Erichsen | – Playwright |
| Kjersti Høgli | – Playwright |
| Anne-Sophie Erichsen | – Direction |
| Silje Steinsvik | – Stage design |
| Jørn Steen | – Video/Film |
| Geir Bremer Øvrebø | – Sound design |
| Jean Vincent Kerebel | – Lighting design |
| Kjersti Høgli | – Actor |
| Jørn Steen | – Photo |
| Hans Petter Henriksen | – Technician |
| Agnar Ribe | – Technician |
| Jonas Borgan Olsen (from 2009 to 2011) | – Producer |
| Tore Wiig | – Consultant |
| Navember 12, 2012 – Småscenen, now Teaterkjelleren, The National Stage (scenic art expo norway) | Show |
| October 4, 2012 – Friteatret, Grenland Friteater | Show |
| June 17, 2008 – Friteatret, Grenland Friteater | Show |
| June 16, 2008 – Friteatret, Grenland Friteater | Show |
| March 27, 2008 | Worldwide premiere |
| scenic art expo norway | Navember 12, 2012 |
M. Schulstok (28.03.2008), Review titled Awfully recognisable, Varden.no, 18.08.2010, http://www.varden.no/article/20080328/KULTUR/304843300:
"Successful, cruel, humorous and incredibly important () Anne-Sophie Erichsen and Kjersti Posti Høgli has created a very efficient story about evil lying latent in all of us."
Elisabeth Rygg (31.03.08), Review titled Harassment drama with nerve, Aftenposten.no, 18.08.2010, http://oslopuls.no/kunst/article2337887.ece:
"It has become thought-provoking theatre, managing to make global evil recognisable."
Anette Therese Pettersen (18.06.2008), Review titled From Auschwitz to Yssen, Dagsavisen.no, 18.08.2010, http://www.dagsavisen.no/kultur/article355275.ece:
"Recognition is not just performed in a skilled way, it is something as rare as a punch in the gut without the moralism attached. A request for recognising the moral failures of one’s own and a tool to avoid it to a larger degree."