Iona

At the webpage of Ferske Scener, the following, among other things, is written about Iona:

"When the future becomes too threatening - and it feels impossible to speak up - escaping may seem as a fair solution. That is what The Bible's Jonah, the unwilling prophet, does. But down in the belly of Leviathan, it doesn't feel as right...

In this performance, we try to see the battle for power over the Northern region's ocean resources from a place deep down in the ocean. In a time where the realities of science and politics seem to split up, we search for ways to see ourselves and our time and age, so that we can keep our courage.

We want to examine a space where we can, together, cleanse and get ready for what is to come. A place where we, like Jonah, are the chosen ones, as we know we are drawn between the solutions of the past and the disasters of the future."

SOURCE:

Ferske Scener, ferskescener.no, 03.04.2020, https://www.ferskescener.no/forestilling/iona/

Anki Gerhardsen, Nordlys (four pips on the dice):

"Iona is a playful, surprising performance with a clear reference to The Bible's story of the prophet Jonah."

Rikke Gürgens Gjærum, Harstad Tidende (five pips on the dice):

"We have long been subject to a 'fat fiction that someone is in control'. The theatre performance Iona goes between the words, sticks pins in tribute speeches and pulls us beneath the surface of the ocaen, to tell us that the whole thing is a lie. And that everything is out of control."