Norwegian Theatre Academy at Østfold University College presents a collaboration between the graduating acting and scenography students and New York City based ensemble Radiohole.HOLLYWOOD DOLLS (HULL I HODET), a visceral romp though grand guignol, reveling in camp and black comedy. The production was created from the students’ visual, physical and written responses to the film "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?".Robert Aldrich’s 1962 "grand dame guignol" starring Hollywood rivals Bette Davis (Coke®) and Joan Crawford (Pepsi®). In its time "Baby Jane" was a critical and commercial success, due in no small part to the well-known enmity between Davis and Crawford. It was ground-breaking for its controversial plot spun around a theme of deep-seeded sororal hatred and casting two aging women in lead roles in a horror film, at a time when aging women generally didn’t get any roles in Hollywood.The production uses the film itself to frame students’ responses to it. In this sense Hollywood Dolls (Hull i hodet) is an echo of that which inspired it, a continuous play of reflections, always looking back at itself like the reverse shot of Bette Davis looking into the back seat of the car to see if the body of Elvira the maid is still there, still dead. But over time, as rehearsals unfold, through relentless physical commitment (that film, by nature, can at best only reflect), play and associations that begin to multiply like fractals, the piece begins to reshape and escape it’s reflexiveness, creating an other-worldly theatrical universe complete unto itself.Hollywood Dolls (Hull i hodet) will be performed both in Fredrikstad and in Oslo.---Created by Radiohole together with NTA's graduating acting and scenography students:Anders Tougaard
Desiree Isabel Bøgh Vaksdal
Elizabet Damyanova
Elsa Johanna Katharina Dahlbäck
Freya Sif Hestnes
Jonas Løvstrøm Borgensgaard
Katrine Elise Leth Nielsen
Marina Popović
Mulenga Mwansa
Nikoline Josefine Spjelkavik
Tobias Shaw Petersen
Victoria Fredrikke Schou Røising
Viola TømteYou are very welcome!www.hiof.no/nta
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