Nav betaler* (Social services pay for it)

Nav betaler* (Social services pay for it) (2019) is a planned theatre production by Bergen Borgerscene and The National Stage, based on a documentary text for the stage, devised especially for the production by Vibeke Havre Flesland. The production will be performed in The National Stage's venue Lille Scene.

Vibeke Havre Flesland directs it.

The performers are citizens of Bergen who tell their own stories. They are not professional actors.

Nav betaler is performed as part of Bergen International Festival 2019.

*Not yet translated into the English. The title within parentheses is the Norwegian title's literal meaning.

Information

(Objekt ID 90200)
Object type Production
Premiere May 31, 2019
Produced by Bergen Borgerscene, The National Stage
In collaboration with Bergen International Festival
Audience Adults
Language Norwegian
Keywords Documentary theatre
Running period May 31, 2019  
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At the website of The National Stage the following, among other things, is written about Nav betaler* (Social Services pay for it):

"Onstage are people who are, or who have been, unemployed. Are they jobseekers? Freeloaders? Or are they perhaps 'between jobs'?

Working is an important value in our society. How does it feel not to have a job?

Nav betaler is a production about a changing society, about challenges and opportunities. The performance poses questions concerning the system and the way we manage human resources.

Bergen Borgerscene, formerly called Folkets festspillscene, creates unique theatre performances in which the people onstage are not actors, but participants in force of being themselves."

SOURCES:

The National Stage, www.dns.no, 28.11.2018, https://dns.no/forestillinger/nav-betaler/

The National Stage, www.dns.no, 28.11.2018, https://dns.no/sterke-historier-og-mye-kjaerlighet/

*Not yet translated into the English. The title within parentheses is the Norwegian title's literal meaning.

Contributors (3)
Name Role
Vibeke Flesland Havre – Script
Vibeke Flesland Havre – Concept/Idea
Vibeke Flesland Havre – Direction
Performance dates
May 31, 2019Lille Scene, The National Stage Worldwide premiere