Weight

Weight (2018) was a theatre production by Demian Vitanzas Fiksjoner. Weight was based on a text for the stage by Demian Vitanza. The production had its world premiere during the theatre festival in Fjaler September 16, 2018. The production also was part of The Ibsen Festival at The National Theatre the same month.

Simon K. Boberg directed it.

Demian Vitanza received The Norwegian Ibsen Award AKA The Ibsen Prize 2019 for Weight.

A movie version was made in 2020. You may read more about that here.

Information

(Objekt ID 91725)
Object type Production
Premiere September 16, 2018
Produced by
Based on Weight by Demian Vitanza
Language Norwegian
Keywords Theatre
Running period September 16, 2018  
Duration 90 minutes
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Weight was supported by Arts Council Norway, The National Theatre, The Fund for Performing Artists, The Audio Visual Fund and Norwegian Centre for New Playwriting (NCNP).

From the description in the playbill:

"Weight is two stage poems, one from before the start of life, the other from after the end of life. One is seen from the perspective of the plants, the other from space. Love and longing force us into these perspectives, because one will never stop searching for someone one has loved and lost."

The text was performed as monologues by the actor Terje Strømdahl and the ten-year-old Oline Flæte Modalsli. The performance bordered on the concert format, musically developed by Nils Martin Larsen and Bendik Kjeldsberg, who also performed live onstage. 

SOURCES:

The theatre festival in Fjaler, Weight/Demian Vitanza at teaterfestivalenifjaler.no, 20.03.2019 
http://teaterfestivalenifjaler.no/tyngde.html

The National Theatre, The Ibsen Festival 2018 - Program at www.nationaltheatret.no, 20.03.2019 
https://www.nationaltheatret.no/forestillinger/arkiv/2018/tyngde-no/

The National Theatre's production archive, forest.nationaltheatret.no, 21.03.2019
https://forest.nationaltheatret.no/Productions/Details/e1e7db6e-9894-4c4c-ae71-6c0b3ff9574c

Contributors (14)
Name Role
Demian Vitanza – Playwright
Simon K. Boberg – Direction
Bendik Hovik Kjeldsberg – Composition
Nils Martin Larsen – Composition
Elin Amundsen Grinaker – Dramaturge
Eirik Sæther – Stage design
Bendik Hovik Kjeldsberg – Sound design
Nils Martin Larsen – Sound design
Yasin Gyltepe – Lighting design
Eirik Sæther – Graphic designer
Terje Strømdahl – Actor
Bendik Hovik Kjeldsberg – Musician
Nils Martin Larsen – Musician
Ingrid Hansen – Producer
Performance dates
September 18, 2018 19:30 – Amfiscenen, Nationaltheatret, The National Theatre Show
September 16, 2018 18:00 – Fjalerhallen Worldwide premiere
Festivals (2)
The Ibsen Festival September 18, 2018
Teaterfestivalen i Fjaler September 16, 2018