| Title | File type | Publiseringsdato | Download |
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| Playbill from The Norwegian Theatre's production Tante Ulrikke's Street (2019) | August 28, 2019 | Download |
Tante Ulrikke's Street
Tante Ulrikke's Street (2019) was a theatre production by The Norwegian Theatre, based on the novel by Zeshan Shakar, in a theatrical adaptation by Victoria Meirik and Carl Morten Amundsen. The production was performed at Rommen Scene. It was revived May 15 2020, when theatres started reopening after Corona restrictions had kept them closed. At the time, events with a maximum of 50 spectators were allowed. The spring and autumn of 2020, the production was performed in The Norwegian Theatre's venue Scene 2.
Victoria Meirik directed it.
Tante Ulrikke's Street was meant to be performed on tour with The Norwegian Touring Theatre the spring of 2020, with its tour opening at Lillehammer March 17. Due to the Corona pandemic, the tour was cancelled.
Information
(Objekt ID 90338)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | August 28, 2019 |
| Produced by | The Norwegian Theatre |
| In collaboration with | The Norwegian Touring Theatre (Riksteatret) |
| Based on | Tante Ulrikke's Street by Zeshan Shakar |
| Audience | Youth |
| Audience size | 16811 |
| Number of events | 98 |
| Language | Norwegian Nynorsk |
| Keywords | Theatre, Performance for youth, Corona-production |
| Running period | August 28, 2019 |
| Website | Det Norske Teatret |
"Two boys grow up in Tante Ulrikke's Street, in Stovner in Oslo. One is from what we can call a good home, the other from a more challenging domestic situation. They both do their best, but they still face an uncertain future.
The time is the early 2000s, in the suburb of Stovner. Here live Jamal and Mo in the same building, but their lives are very different. At Jamal's, most only the food served is the one he makes, as his mother lies on the couch all day and his younger brother pees himself while he is at school. But Jamal has no time for his brother's problems: He needs to work at the car wash, and the work is so repetitive and so hard, that during night-time, he just wants to relax with a little nightcap.
Mo works steadily at school to achieve the best grades, and eventually he starts studying societal economics at the university. The change of environment from the familiar community at Stovner becomes overwhelming. He meets a somewhat original girl who lives with her parents in a big villa at Grefsen. But as she finds new friends in the politically correct student community, and she becomes interested in demonstrating H&M and big capital wanting to establish in authentic Grünerløkka, they grow apart. She is unable to understand Mo's challenges in surpassing class divides, trying to be accepted in the country he has grown up in. Perhaps was it only exciting to have, for a while, a boyfriend who was a Muslim and had grown up in Stovner?
Political
Tante Ulrikke's Street is about two young boys' struggle to rise above and to find a better life. It is about love, youth and trying to understand the greater society. And it is about class and the blind zones of the political and the politically correct elites.
Collaboration with Rommen Scene
Tante Ulrikke's Street is part of The Norwegian Theatre's new priority in collaboration with Rommen Scene at Stovner, and it will have its world premiere at Rommen Scene.
The establishment of The Norwegian Theatre at Rommen Scene takes place in collaboration with the borough of Stover and it has been supported by the municipality of Oslo, OBOS and The Ministry of Culture."
SOURCES:
The Norwegian Theatre, www.detnorsketeatret.no, 03.01.2019, https://www.detnorsketeatret.no/framsyningar/tante-ulrikkes-vei/, 14.05.2020, https://www.detnorsketeatret.no/framsyningar/tante-ulrikkes-vei
The National Library of Norway, digitised playbill transferred to Sceneweb 22.09.2020
The Norwegian Touring Theatre, www.riksteatret.no, 22.07.2020, https://www.riksteatret.no/repertoar/tante-ulrikkes-vei/
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Zeshan Shakar | – Author |
| Carl Morten Amundsen | – Dramatised by |
| Victoria H. Meirik | – Dramatised by |
| Victoria H. Meirik | – Direction |
| Carl Morten Amundsen | – Dramaturge |
| Unni Walstad | – Stage design |
| Unni Walstad | – Costume design |
| Torhild Jensen | – Costume (Kostymekoordinator) |
| Simon Matthew Valentine | – Video/Film |
| Audun Melbye | – Sound design |
| Gyril Høgberg | – Lighting design |
| Sarah Francesca Brænne | – Actor |
| Gaute Adela Aastorp Cudjoe | – Actor (Jamal) |
| Ragnhild Meling Enoksen | – Actor (Maria / Sarah) |
| Thomas Bipin Olsen | – Actor (Mo - alternerte med Manish Sharma) |
| Manish Sharma | – Actor (Mo - alternerte med Thomas Bipin Olsen) |
| Jon Bleiklie Devik | – Voiceover |
| Tone Bernhoft Osa | – Props |
| Magnus Holm Slettebø | – Stage Manager |
| Tine Marie Lund | – Project manager |
| Jan-André Strand | – Project manager |
| April 23, 2021 20:00 – The Norwegian Theatre, digital offering | New opening |
| May 15, 2020 – Scene 2, Det Norske Teatret, The Norwegian Theatre | New opening |
| August 28, 2019 19:00 – Rommen Scene, The Norwegian Theatre | Worldwide premiere |