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BE RGE N INTE RN AT I ON AL
FE STIVAL 2015

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World
premiere

DUB
Leviathan!

CO RN ERT E ATE R E T
DATE/TIME/TRACKS

Thursday 28 May
at 19:15 - Against /
War of All
Duration: 2:40
Friday 29 May at 19:15
- Against / War of All
Duration: 2:40
Saturday 30 May at
19:15 - War of All / All
Duration: 2:50
Sunday 31 May at
19:15 - Against / All
Duration: 2:30
Tuesday 02 June at
19:15 - Against /
War of All
Duration: 2:40
Wednesday 03 June
at 19:15 - Against / All
Duration: 2:30
Thursday 04 June at
19:15 - War of All / All
Duration: 2:50
Friday 05 June at
19:15 - Against /
War of All / All
Duration: 4:00
L A N GUAGE

Performed in
Norwegian with
extracts in English.

‘Emergency Response Theatre’ for the
future.
In this project Tore Vagn Lid presents a scenic album in a cross-pollination of stage play,
radio play and concert. A state of emergency
describes a situation in which normal laws and
regulations are set aside, often as a result of an
sudden catastrophe or unexpected occurrence.
In Tore Vagn Lid’s stage dub, stage art and the
dub DJ’s modus operandi join forces towards
a common goal: to prepare us for a state of
emergency and make a kind of ‘emergency
response theatre’ for the future.
Thomas Hobbes’s work Leviathan describes the
natural condition of mankind as war ‘of every
man against every man’.

Keywords for the scenic album are active – and
in particular interactive – humankind, in a future
OT H ER
On some days there will characterised by new crises and new struggles
be DUB parties after
in which the rules are in flux and risk zones are
the performance. Inexpanding.
formation about these
will be announced on
www.fib.no/dubparty,
on our Facebook page
and at the venue. The
scenic symposium
New Performances,
New Tools –
Knowledge and Skills
for the Post-dramatic
Theatre is held 02 and
03 June, see page 79.
T IC KET *

Full price: 290
Under 30: 150
*Festival card:
40 %–30 % discount

DUB as a music production form evolved in a
time of protest and revolt in Jamaica around
1970. The mixer board acquired an extended
function, accompaniment was a central feature
and the vocal track disappeared. Tore Vagn Lid
makes a dramaturgical principle of this.
Tore Vagn Lid is recognised for productions that
highlight social issues and explore the potential
of theatre as a medium. The Measures Taken
(2007), Elephant Stories (2009) and Fatzer
(2012) were internationally acclaimed when they
premiered at the Bergen International Festival,
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and Kill Them All (2013) received the Critics’
Award. In accordance with the idea of the DUB
genre, Tore Vagn Lid follows up motifs from
earlier work, from the wave of suicide related
to the Euro debt crisis to the countless ‘losers’
beneath the ‘harder sky’ of global capitalism,
to use Bjørneboe’s expression.
The album consists of the tracks War of all (Bellum
Omnium), Against (Contra) and All (Omnes),
which will be presented in various combinations
during the performance period.
Tore Vagn Lid direction, text and audio-visual
concept, music, musician
Tomas Nilsson music, percussion
Jonas Skarmark DUB Organizer/DJ
Morten Skage bass
Thorolf Thuestad sound design
Øystein Nesheim set and models
Kristian Pedersen animation/graphics
Norunn Standal lighting design
Ole Joachim Sjursen, Tore Vatne film team
Stephan Hergel, Vegard Landsverk,
Kyrre Bjørkås, Åsmund Bøe, Klaus Kottmann,
Alexander Andreassen video material
Tor Christian F. Bleikli, Stine Fevik,
Henrikke Meidell, Selma Indine Strønen
Damm, Hilde Annine Hasselberg, Arild
Vestre et.al. cast

Once upon
a human being
Bergen citizen
theatre

DE N N AT ION A L E
SC E N E
L IL L E SC E N E
DAT E / T IME

Friday 29 May
at 18:00
Saturday 30 May
at 13:00 & 15:00
Monday 01 June
at 18:00
DU RAT ION

1:00
L A N G UAG E

Performed in Norwegian. English translation unavailable.

Bergen playwright and author
Arne Lygre finally makes his
debut on home ground, following
great success on stages abroad
and elsewhere in Norway.

DE N N AT ION A L E
SC E N E
T E AT E RKJ E L L E RE N
DAT E / T IME

A symphony of stories.
During the 2014 Bergen International
Festival, director Vibeke Flesland
Havre sat in a booth in the city
square and collected the stories of
local residents, culling raw material for the theatrical project Bergen
citizen theatre. Those story-tellers
who consented to having their material included have been involved in
developing the performance, and
appear on stage as narrators.

Nothing of Me is about a mature
woman entering a relationship with a
man many years her junior. She leaves
her husband and children to live out
her passion with the young man. Does
this bring them pure joy? Or does
their past catch up with them?

Weekdays at 19:30
Saturday at 18:00
DU RAT ION

See www.fib.no
L A N G UAG E

Performed in
Norwegian.
English translation
unavailable.

‘This isn’t just some simple adulterygone-sour drama … Nothing of Me is
more like a poetic meditation of the
nature of existence itself,’ wrote the
Guardian’s theatre critic after the
world premiere in Stockholm.

T IC K E T *

Full price: 320
Under 30: 150
*Festival card:
40 %–30 % discount

Kamilla Bach Mortensen director
Ingvild Rømo Grande set designer
Ane Skumsvoll, Stian Isaksen,
Marianne Nielsen cast

The performance Once upon a human
being consists of the stories of
several lives. Memories, dreams and
experiences are woven together into
a greater tale about being human.

Produced by DNS

OT H E R

Talk (in Norwegian) after the 13:00
performance on
Saturday 30 May
T IC K E T *

Full price: 250
Under 30: 150

Produced by Transiteatret-Bergen in association with Dramatikkens Hus, the Norwegian
Academy of Theatre Project Programme,
Aust-Agder County, Sisu Percussion, Bergen
International Festival, Cornerteateret et.al

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Saturday 09 May–
Saturday 10 June

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World
premiere

Nothing
of Me

*Festival card:
40 %–30 % discount

Vibeke Flesland Havre script, director
Anders Hasmo Dahl dramaturg
Silje Sandodden Kise set design
Gunnar Innvær sound design
Marte Elise Stormo lighting design
Presented in association wit