Tre Røyster* (Three Voices)
Avkom* (Offspring), In a Shop, Linedans* (Tightrope Walking).
Tre Røyster* (Three Voices) by Liv Heløe, Kim Atle Hansen and Gyrid Axe Øvsteng was performed in The Norwegian Theatre the spring of 2003, as the final of the two-year Pilot Project for Playwrights (2001-2003). Tre Røyster consisted of the one-act plays Avkom* (Offspring), In a Shop and Linedans* (Tightrope Walking).
The Pilot Project was an educational project for playwrights, in collaboration between The National Theatre, The Norwegian Theatre, The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater) and The National Academy of Theatre, Oslo.
*Not yet translated into English. The title within parentheses is the Norwegian title's literal meaning.
Information
(Objekt ID 8544)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | May 6, 2003 |
| Produced by | The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater), The National Theatre, The Norwegian Theatre, |
| Based on | Avkom* (Offspring) by Kim Atle Hansen; Linedans* (Tightrope Walking) by Gyrid Axe Øvsteng; In a shop by Liv Heløe |
| Audience | Adults, Youth |
| Audience size | 398 |
| Number of events | 8 |
| Language | Norwegian |
| Keywords | Theatre, One-act Play |
| Running period | May 6, 2003 |
| Website | Det Åpne Teater, Det Norske Teatret, Nationaltheatret, KHiO |
Requirements to venue
| Blackout | Yes |
Tre røyster* (Three voices) consisted of three one-act plays:
In a Shop by Liv Heløe:
A has left her husband and applies for a job in a shoe store. With her help the customers as well as the employer find out what they long for. Does she have to leave all over again, or has she gotten to where she was headed?
Avkom* (Offspring) by Kim Atle Hansen:
In an old house by a fiord in Southern Norway live Njål and Kirsten. They are just married and have moved from a dangerous city to create a harmonic future for themselves. It is autumn. It will be winter.
Linedans* (Tightrope Walking) by Gyrid Axe Øvsteng:
Line is about to die. Next to her deathbed stand her parents Var (literally: Cautious) and Streng (literally: Strict) and the boyfriend Finn (a Norwegian name, as well as the word for find). The latter three are all warring their own and the others’ relationships to the living and dying Line.
Source: The Norwegian Theatre, detnorsketeatret.no, 09.11.2010, http://www.detnorsketeatret.no/Default.aspx?Tabid=65&PlayId=30
*Not yet translated into English. The title within parentheses is the Norwegian title's literal meaning.
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Kim Atle Hansen | – Playwright (Avkom) |
| Liv Heløe | – Playwright (I en butikk) |
| Gyrid Axe Øvsteng | – Playwright (Linedans) |
| Kai Johnsen | – Direction |
| Helge Hoff Monsen | – Stage design |
| Helge Hoff Monsen | – Costume design |
| Nicolai Cleve Broch | – Actor (Njål i Avkom) |
| Svein Erik Brodal | – Actor (Streng i Linedans) |
| Morten Espeland | – Actor (Finn i Linedans) |
| Ragnhild Hilt | – Actor (Var i Linedans) |
| Gjertrud Jynge | – Actor (Tine i I en butikk) |
| Marian Saastad Ottesen | – Actor (Kirsten i Avkom / Line i Linredans) |
| Nina Woxholtt | – Actor (Sjukepleier i Linedans / Anita i I en butikk) |
| Torild Ødegaard Bratten | – Mask design |
| Nicola Samad | – Director’s assistant |
| May 6, 2003 – Scene 3 (tidligere Prøvesalen), Det Norske Teatret, The Norwegian Theatre | Worldwide premiere |
Avkom* (Offspring) by Kim Atle Hansen:
"The issues we are presented for are sensitive, and in particular Kim Atle Hansen has been daring in choosing the subject baby death. [...] Guilt, shame and forgiveness between the lovers are the driving forces of the play, a play which also has a surprising, releasing punchline."
Hilde Østby. Review titled Talenter i startgropa (literally: Talents in the starting blocks). Dagsavisen
"Kim Atle Hansen has written his one-act play with a driven sense of dramaturgic development. Here the turning points come often, but precisely, but the strong action and the short time makes it so that presentation and development of the characters aren’t given quite enough room. [...] But the efficiency of the story is impressive."
Andreas Wiese. Review titled Tre klare stemmer (literally: Three clear voices). Dagbladet
Linedans* (Tightrope Walking) by Gyrid Axe Øvsteng:
"Øvsteng’s text contains fragile humour and several life-philosophical questions, and is written in musical, language-conscious New Norwegian."
Hilde Østby. Review titled Talenter i startgropa (literally: Talents in the starting blocks). Dagsavisen
"Here, too, the divide between female and male patterns of reaction and being has been used as a dramatic effect and a theme on display. [...] The action is stylised, the expression far from realist, but the underlying themes are existential: Life, death and the connections between us. The fable fascinates, but is also a bit static, a bit loose. At the end, we’d like to know a bit more than we get to know."
Andreas Wiese. Review titled Tre klare stemmer (literally: Three clear voices). Dagbladet
In a shop by Liv Heløe:
"With a simple circle composition and a lot of humour Liv Heløe has created a one-act play which is elegant as well as likeable."
Hilde Østby. Review titled Talenter i startgropa (literally: Talents in the starting blocks). Dagsavisen
"In this performance lays a tight, fine sensuality underneath the text, an important, erotically laden pulse. Heløe shows us something exciting in the disjunction between control and desire in women."
Andreas Wiese. Review titled Tre klare stemmer (literally: Three clear voices). Dagbladet
*Not yet translated into English. The title within parentheses is the Norwegian title's literal meaning.