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Here Be Monsters

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

For sailors, adventurers and those fools who loved to face their fears, cartographers would write on maps of unknown regions the legend ‘Here Be Monsters’.

Helpful information? Or did they just worship the mysterious, the unknown and the notorious?

I hadn’t worked in the theatre for a long time, when two years ago I decided enough was enough and took off towards my own unknown. I quit my office job, packed a change of clothes into a rucksack, left my phone and I-pod on the kitchen table and got on a plane leaving England for France.

From France I walked all the way across Spain, to finish on the west coast where the land meets the sea. It took me forty days and forty nights (and if that isn’t true, it should be.)

At the sea I had a choice – to return to my office job, spend all my time there each day, buy a sandwich at lunch, be allowed one tea break in the morning, one in the afternoon.

Or I could choose to spend as much time as possible doing what I love – writing plays. I hadn’t been involved in making theatre for three years. I looked at the map. ‘Here be monsters’ it said.

Scary as it was, I made the choice to return to a career writing plays. I stepped into unknown territory seeking liberation, with a smile on my face and an optimism bordering on insanity. Let there be monsters I thought. Let there be fear.

At the Drachengasse Theatre in Vienna, starting on May 3rd, will be the play I wrote for the directors of Imploding Fictions. It is called ‘Flap and Fear’.

It involves Lilly and Jesse, two pigeons who go on holiday to Vienna.

You know the way pigeons gather in the park? Then if you move close to them, they flap their wings in fright and fly away? What happens next?

They always come back.

Pigeons returning to the crust of bread in the park and me returning to pursue a career in playwrighting are the same thing. They are stories about the addiction we have to our fears. The compulsion, the obsession to test, sample, discover how close we can get to the fire before we burn our hand.

‘Here Be Monsters’ the map says.

Curious, we keep going to have a look.

- Darren Lerigo, april 2010

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Guest-blogger Darren Lerigo is a Madrid-based playwright and theatremaker. He has written Imploding Fictions’ latest play “Flap and fear” which will be performed as part of the Newcomer-scheme at Theater Drachengasse in Vienna 3rd – 22nd May 2010.

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Twittering Pigeons

Friday, April 16th, 2010
Under the heading PigeonPost our two pigeons Lilly and Jesse from our new show Flap and fear will be tweeting about their life, fear and flapping throughout the project, both during our rehearsal time in London and our run at Theater Drachengasse in Austria. For tweets from the life of two London pigeons going on a city break to Vienna, and for updates about our theatrical endeavours during this project, follow TheImploders on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/TheImploders

We will also be using this account to tweet about Imploding Fictions in the future, so sign up now and follow our implosive affairs!
- Øystein

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From Toy Story to Communism

Sunday, April 11th, 2010
– Wallace Shawn and The Fever

Wallace Shawn (Photo: Unknown)

Acting in Hollywood blockbusters for kids and overt Marxist politics don’t generally go hand in hand. So it’s probably fair to say that amongst contemporary playwrights Wallace Shawn wins the award for quirkiest CV. He’s a comedian, writer, political activist, translator of Brecht, essayist and social commentator with degrees in history and economics from Oxford and Harvard. Amongst the many facets of his artistic career however, personally he sees himself first and foremost as a playwright. It’s a lovely paradox that while his theatre work is often dark and confrontational and has caused outrage, he is loved by millions as the voice of Rex in Toy Story.
Wallace Shawn (Photo: Unknown)Wallace Shawn (Photo: Unknown)
Despite one critic describing him as ‘one of the worst and unsightliest actors in this city’ his appearance in The Princess Bride turned him into a cult figure and ever since he’s been plying his trade as the Hollywood oddball. On the other end of the spectrum he’s also appeared in the semi-autobiographical dialogue My Dinner with Andre, and a deconstruction of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya titled Vanya on 42nd Street, both directed by the legendary Louis Malle. Shawn’s theatre work began in 1978 with the play Marie and Bruce and he polarised critics and audiences from the start. His play A Thought in Three Parts caused a minor uproar in London in 1977 when the production was investigated by a vice squad and attacked in Parliament due to allegedly pornographic content. Shawn was back in London last year, this time treating viewers of his new play Grasses of a thousand colours to graphic descriptions of sex with cats. This time no legal action was taken! His language is both lyrical and violent and his themes often overtly political. Shawn is a master of drawing parallels between the psychology of his characters and the behaviour of governments and social classes and this culminated in his work The Fever.
Wallace Shawn (Photo: Unknown)Wallace Shawn (Photo: Unknown)
The Fever follows a nameless character’s journey as he awakens on a bathroom floor in a nameless poverty-stricken country. Sick and alone, this everyman recounts the story of how he has arrived at this particular hotel, and the painful realisations that has accompanied his journey. It’s a journey that brings him face to face
with the grotesque inequalities at the heart of modern existence. Shawn asks us to look at the choices we make, on a daily level, to see how we are each continuing the flow of keeping the poor in the poverty zone and the rich in the insulated levels of power. His wealth, he realises, depends on others’ poverty, his comfort on
others’ deprivation. He comes to see that his life is ‘irredeemably corrupt’. Shawn then continues to depict the torturous reasoning of a mind trying to find its way back to acceptance of a state of affairs it has discovered to be morally untenable. He eventually shifts from spasms of disgust for his part in the world’s injustices to
coolly logical arguments for maintaining the status quo. Wallace Shawn deconstructs the contradictions and compromises of the urban liberal mind with wit and rigour. The play asks us if we should feel guilty once we realise that our hard work does not justify our comfort, when in reality all work hard but not all are comfortable? And what steps should we take when that realisation is made?

Wallace Shawn (Photo: Unknown)

The Fever has been described by Shawn as his ‘most autobiographical work’. He has been working on it constantly for many years and the work and its form have undergone many permutations. Shawn originally intended it as a piece of political activism rather than ‘a play’. In the 80s he performed it himself at dinner parties in peoples living rooms all around New York. He says he would ideally perform it after his audience had tucked into a nice meal and still had a glass of champagne in their hands. He would proceed to tease away at the things that underpin the lifestyles
of middle-class liberals. The central conflict would unfold directly between the play and the audience. In 1990 The Fever became a stage play and was performed in both New York and at London’s Royal Court Theatre. Most recently, in 2004, Shawn turned The Fever into a tv show for HBO starring Vannessa Redgrave and Michael Moore. The Fever remains a powerful and probing assault on the distribution of wealth in our society and our privileged existence. OIT are proud to be presenting the play for the first time in Oslo.
The Fever by Wallace Shawn (US)
a rehearsed reading by Oslo International Theatre
at Vardeteatret in Oslo, Radhusgt. 19
22nd April at 7pm
Directed by Øystein Ulsberg Brager
Performed by Torgny G. Aanderaa
Production management: Teatersirkus / Michael H. Sciarrone
The reading will be performed in english.
Tickets: 70,- NOK
To reserve tickets email oslointernasjonaleteater@gmail.com
For more information on OIT see:
http://oslointernasjonaleteater.wordpress.com
Oslo International Theater is a project run by Imploding Fictions.

The Fever was first performed by the author January 1990 in an apartment near Seventh Avenue in New York City.

Performed with kind permission by Casarotto Ramsay & Associates.

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Flap and fear in Vienna

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

Photo: Kaja Kozlowska

Photo: Kaja Kozlowska

FLAP AND FEAR by Darren Lerigo

A theatre production by Imploding Fictions

Theatre Drachengasse 3rd – 22nd May 2010

Directed by Philip Thorne and Oystein Ulsberg Brager
Performed by Lauren McCullum and Rowena Hutson
Sound design by Laurence Short

For tickets and further information see
http://www.drachengasse.at

The play will be performed in English.

Imploding Fictions has been commisioned by Theater in der Drachengasse in Vienna to produce a new performance based on the theme ‘scaremongers’, as part of Drachengasse’s Newcomer-scheme. The performance will be part of an evening entitled Angstmacher.

A little girl is running through a flock of pigeons in a park. They all fly off in a panic, yet she poses no real threat. Later, they always come back.

Flap and Fear follows two London city pigeons as they seek refuge from a world of frights in Drachengasse’s Bar&Co. Flap and Fear is about our addiction to fear and how we return to it, over and over again. In fact – perhaps we are actually complicit with the scaremongers?

DARREN LERIGO
Darren Lerigo is a young British writer currently living in Madrid. He has previously run several online writing projects and published the satirical e-newspaper This Is Your Government Speaking. Darren is winner of the Haymarket Theatre Basingstoke’s ‘Write to Stage’ competition for his play Jester You Shall Sunset. He is currently dreaming of writing a show based on European folk tales, told by a woman playing a harp and backed by a trio of violinists in cages, a banjo playing ape dressed as a pirate and an accordion player with enormously long legs.

ROWENA HUTSON
Rowena graduated with a First Class Honours degree in European Theatre Arts from Rose Bruford College in 2008. She was awarded the Sir John Gielgud Charitable Trust Bursary for promising young actors completing their final year of study for 2007/2008. Rowena is a member of the theatre collective Sheer Lunacy, the permanent ensemble of Underground Cinema, and is the Acting Mentor for Rose Theatrical of London Ltd. She has toured Germany and France with White Horse Theatre Company and has performed in the United Kingdom, Holland and Australia. Credits include: Katrina Van Tassel in Sleepy Hollow, directed by Jaime McCarney; Ebbi in Unwrapped, directed by Luna Gawler; Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by Claire Fisher, and The Lady In Red in Manilla for Sheer Lunacy.

LAUREN MCCULLUM
Lauren trained for three years at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance in London, receiving a first class BA honours degree in European Theatre Arts in 2009. Lauren has also studied at the Estonian Academy of Music and Drama and part-time classes at The Circus Space. For the past two and a half years, Lauren has been working with theatre collective, the Fiasco Division, developing performances, events and a creative practice as a company. Lauren has been performing for nine years in various festivals and venues; including the Estonian Academy, Norway’s Operahuset Nordfjord, Reykjavik’s ArtFart and in her home country in London’s National Theatre and Southwark Playhouse, Bournemouth’s Kube Art Gallery and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Past credits include The Queen in Luigi Pirandello’s Henry V, directed by Andrea Cussumano; Anne-Marie Stretter in India Song, directed by Monique Hunt; Iphigenia in Iphigenia in Taurus, directed by Alexia Kokkali; Natella Abashwilli in The Caucasian Chalk Circle, directed by Ingo Normet and numerous devised productions at Rose Bruford and with The Fiasco Division.

You can find a detailed performance schedule, information on ticket bookings and further information on Theater Drachengasse’s homepage:
http://www.drachengasse.at/

Thanks to photographer Kaja Kozlowska for letting us use her lovely photo of a running girl and flapping pigeons in the show! To see how the picture features in the production, make your way to Angstmacher and Flap and fear at Theater Drachengasse in Vienna, Austria.

- Oystein
Poster for the Angstmacher evening which Flap and fear is part of
Poster for the Angstmacher evening
which Flap and fear is part of

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Imploding Fictions attempts Crimp in Oslo

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

Oslo International Theatre presents the Norwegian premiere of

Attempts on Her Life

by Martin Crimp

a rehearsed reading at Vardeteatret in Oslo

Translated by: Katharina Gellein Viken

Directed by: Øystein Ulsberg Brager

With: Katharina Gellein Viken, Christoffer Hag Maure, Robert Rustad Amundsen og Torgny G. Aanderaa

Produced by: Michael H. Sciarrone

Thursday 11th March at 7pm at Vardeteatret, Rådhusgt. 19 in Oslo, Norway

Tickets can be reservered via oslointernasjonaleteater@gmail.com

Attempts on Her Life is a modern masterpiece by British dramatist Martin Crimp.

When it burst onto stage in 1997 at London’s Royal Court theatre it created both immense excitement and considerable bafflement. It’s the work of a freewheeling imagination in which seventeen scenarios collide to create the portrait of a highly ambiguous character called ‘Anne’. With each scenario we are presented with a different facet of her enigma. Is she a porn star, an international terrorist, a victim of aliens, a physicist or indeed a make of car? Martin Crimp presents us with all these options in this virtuosic tour de force of a play which is by turns funny, shocking, entertaining and sad. More than a decade after its’ premiere Attempts on Her Life has become an established modern classic and a major influence on young writers the world over. OIT is proud to present the first reading of this extraordinary piece in Norway in a brand new translation by Katharina Gellein Viken.

Welcome to Attempts on Her Life!

Philip Thorne

Joint artistic director of Imploding Fictions and dramaturg for Oslo International Teater

About Crimp and Attempts on Her Life:

The most radically interrogative play in western mainstream theatre since Beckett.

Mary Luckhurst

The piece has a kaleidoscopic vigour … It is driven by a radical contempt for the new global capitalism and its attempt to turn us all into peripatetic, depersonalised consumers … He may have dispensed with plot and characters,  but he has proved that the act of theatre can still survive if it is propelled by moral fervour.

Michael Billington, Guardian

This is what the brave new theatre of the 21st Century will look like – both on stage and on the page.

Nicholas de Jongh

[Crimp] has an extraordinary fastidiousness about language … He displays the formal bravura of one who delights in his craft.

Independent on Sunday (om Crimps The Country)

Martin Crimp is one of the hottest properties in Europe.

Guardian

For more information on OIT see:

http://oslointernasjonaleteater.wordpress.com

Oslo International Theatre is a project run by Imploding Fictions:

www.implodingfictions.com

Attempts on her Life by Martin Crimp was first presented by the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre.

Publisher: Nordiska ApS

Photo from OITs reading of Seven Other Children by Richard Stirling. From the left: Sveinung Oppegaard and Torgny G. Aanderaa. Copyright: Michael H. Sciarrone

- Oystein

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INVITASJON and INVITATION

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Hannah, Sammy and the two Hamletmachine robots

Hannah, Sammy and the two Hamletmachine robots, photo: Tamás Kiraly

We come straight from another two successful Hamletmachine performances at the lovely Théâtre la Vignette in Montpellier, to a completely new departure in Oslo: We are starting Oslo International Theatre (OIT), our first big project in Norway. Below you find an invitation (both in Norwegian and English) to our very first rehearsed reading. We hope to see you there!

INVITASJON

Oslo Internasjonale Teater inviterer til iscenesatt lesning av

Sju Jødiske Barn av Caryl Churchill og Sju Andre Barn av Richard Stirling

med påfølgende paneldebatt

Tid: 12. november klokken 19:00

Sted: Vardeteatret, Rådhusgata 19, Oslo

Pris: Fri entré, innsamling til inntekt for Medical Aid for Palestinians og One Voice Movement

Medvirkende: Terje Skonseng Naudeer, Thea Borring Lande, Sveinung Oppegaard, Torgny Aanderaa, Ingrid Askvik og Tor Itai Keilen

Regi: Øystein Ulsberg Brager

OIT presenterer Sju Jødiske Barn av Caryl Churchill og Sju Andre Barn av Richard Stirling med påfølgende paneldebatt, og stiller spørsmålet: Hvilken rolle kan dramatikken spille i forhold til konfliktsituasjoner verden over? Deltagere i panelet er blant annet Gunnar Germundson fra Dramatikerforbundet og litteraturviter Rana Issa. Dramaturg Njål Mjøs leder debatten. Det er fri entré, og OIT vil etter dramatikernes ønske samle inn penger som deles likt mellom Medical Aid for Palestine og One Voice Movement.

Det er begrenset med publikumskapasitet, så hvis du ønsker å sikre plass er det mulig å sende epost med navn og antall publikumere til: oslointernasjonaleteater@gmail.com

Vi vil etterhvert opprette en egen mailingliste for OIT som kun omhandler våre arrangementer i Norge. Om du ønsker å stå på denne er det hyggelig om du sender en email med «Påmelding OIT nyhetsbrev» i emnefeltet til: oslointernasjonaleteater@gmail.com

Mer info finnes på http://oslointernasjonaleteater.wordpress.com

Vi håper du kan komme torsdag 12. november!

Hamletmachine in Montpellier, photo: Tamás Kiraly

Hamletmachine in Montpellier, photo: Tamás Kiraly

INVITATION

Oslo International Theatre invites you to a rehearsed reading of

Seven Jewish Children by Caryl Churchill and Seven Other Children by Richard Stirling with a following panel debate

When: 12th November at 7pm

Where: Vardeteatret, Rådhusgata 19, Oslo, Norway

Entry: Free, a collection is made for Medical Aid for Palestinians and One Voice Movement

Cast: Terje Skonseng Naudeer, Thea Borring Lande, Sveinung Oppegaard, Torgny Aanderaa, Ingrid Askvik and Tor Itai Keilen

Directed by: Oystein Ulsberg Brager

The reading will take place in Norwegian.

OIT presents Seven Jewish Children Caryl Churchill and Seven Other Children by Richard Stirling with a following panel debate. We ask the question: What role can the theatre play in relation to areas of conflict around the world? Amongst others the leader of the Norwegian Playwrights’ Organisation, Gunnar Germundson, and fellow of the University of Marburg, Rana Issa, will participate in the debate, which will be moderated by dramaturg Njål Mjøs. Entry is free, and a collection will be made benefitting Medical Aid for Palestinians and One Voice Movement equally.

Audience numbers are limited, so if you wish to reserve a seat please send us an email with your name and the number of people to oslointernasjonaleteater@gmail.com.

For more info see http://oslointernasjonaleteater.wordpress.com

Welcome!

- Oystein

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Ghosts of Past and Present

Friday, August 21st, 2009

Norwegian-Readings-005

On the 18th and 19th August ATC and Company of Angels presented Ghosts of Past and Present, two evenings of rehearsed play readings by emerging Norwegian playwrights in association with the Arcola Theatre and supported by the Norwegian Embassy. The two plays were Blue sky, green forest by Bjørnar L. Teigen and Buy Nothing Day by Kim Atle Hansen.

The readings were directed by myself. The wonderful cast consisted of Lloyd Gorman, Amrita Acharya, Eloise Secker, Laura Prior, Hannah Pierce and Alex Packer. Lloyd Gorman also composed excellent melodies for the songs performed in Buy Nothing Day. Philip Thorne and I translated the plays, working from existing literal translations by Svein Solenes (Blue sky, green forest) and Kim Atle Hansen (Buy Nothing Day).

We were delighted that Bjornar L.Teigen, the writer of Blue sky, green forest, was able to come from Norway to see the readings. He seemed pleased with how we’d dealt with translating his play and putting it on stage, so I’m very happy about that!

The Norwegian readings were part of ATC’s Spin Off program and took place at the Arcola Theatre before the performance of ATC/Arcola Theatre’s production of Ghosts or Those Who Return by Henrik Ibsen, presented in a new version by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. The ATC production was directed by Bijan Sheibani.

For more information see www.atctheatre.com or www.companyofangels.co.uk, or http://www.atctheatre.com/index.php?plid=78&show=info

- Oystein

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Sense by Anja Hilling at Southwark Playhouse

Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Company of Angels presents Sense at Southwark Playhouse

Company of Angels presents Sense at Southwark Playhouse

From 28th April to the 2nd May

This is not an Imploding Fictions production, but is produced by our good friends and collegues at Company of Angels. Oystein is directing “Nose”, one of the 5 pieces:

Following on from the play’s success at Theatre Café Festival 2008, five Company of Angels’ Associates will jointly be directing a promenade production of the award-winning Sense by German author Anja Hilling with a cast of 10 final year Drama Centre students.

Sense is a series of interlinking narratives. All five ‘senses’ are also plays in their own right. A play about teenagers, love, and the need to make radical choices, Sense is an intense, poetic journey into touching, inhaling, tasting, hearing, seeing and experiencing life to the extreme.

“astonishingly grown-up and hard-hitting theatre for young people”
Lyn Gardner – The Guardian, on Theatre Cafe 2008

Tickets can be booked from:
www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk
or 020 7407 0234

Or read more on:
www.companyofangels.co.uk

Hope to see you all there!

- Oystein

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New office address

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

Please note that Imploding Fictions has a new office address:

Imploding Fictions 
CO/Oystein Ulsberg Brager
24 Bay Tree Close
Sidcup
Kent DA15 8WH

- Øystein and Pip

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A show that never was and two (UG)gly samaritans

Monday, September 22nd, 2008
(UG)gly, the brilliant show that replaced ours

(UG)gly, the brilliant show that replaced ours at the Amsterdam Fringe Festival

Øystein in email-conversation with Adrian Gillott

After the letter exchange between David Overend and myself arranged by INSTED (see right hand menu), exchanging thoughts and ideas through letters has fascinated me. It’s very stimulating putting your thoughts down in letters, and getting thorough and intelligent responses to it. Your ideas feel like they matter, and that is a very satisfying feeling.

Here is a slightly shortened version of an email conversation between myself and Adrian Gillot of TheSamePerson who stood in for us on short notice when we were hindered from going to the Amsterdam Fringe:

Subject: URGENT from Oystein, can you help us?!‏

From: Øystein
Sent: 25 August 2008 13:34:26

Hi Adrian,

Philip and I have got into an unfortunate situation… As you know, we were going to perform at the Amsterdam Fringe Festival. But then Philip decided to fall down a flight of stairs and damage his leg, so now we’ve had to cancel. Very disappointing for us, but also for the festival who have now got four nights available in one of their best venues. So… we thought we’d ask you if you and Anna wanted to go with UG(gly) instead?

(…)

All the best,

Øystein

From: Adrian
Sent: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:48:08 +0100

Hey Øystein,

Thanks for thinking about us! It would be very cool if Anna and I could take UG(gly) to Amsterdam.

But how terrible for you guys. I’m so sorry to hear about Philip and his leg. Argh! Why do these things happen at such terrible times?

Thank you!

Best,
Adrian.

From: Øystein
Sent: 29 August 2008 09:50:21

Hear you’re going! Great stuff! Have an amazing festival! :)

Best, Øystein and Pip

From: Adrian
Sent: 29 August 2008 10:29:51

Yes, it looks like we’re going…

It’s a bit scary because we haven’t looked at the show since June but it is going to be really exciting. I can’t believe that we are profiting from your misfortune, though; that seems really harsh. I hope that Pip’s leg gets better really soon. And, you know, I am really curious about your show…

Best,

Adrian.
‏

From: Øystein
Sent: 30 August 2008 10:07:01

Well, it was supposed to be about failure. So I reckon this was probably the best way to fulfill that aim… ;-P

Ø.

The two (UG)gly samaritans, here in blue

The two (UG)gly samaritans, here in blue

From: Adrian
Sent: 09 September 2008 20:06:04

Dear Øystein and Pip,

This is just to say thank you so much for recommending us to Anneke
for the Fringe. It is really such a shame that you were not able to go
because it was a beautiful theatre and the people were so wonderful
(you have already met some of them, I think) but your loss was very
much our gain and we are extremely grateful. It was a wonderful few
days and an invaluable opportunity for Anna and I to play the show in
front of audiences of total strangers; and Dutch to boot.

Anneke was very disappointed that you guys were not there – after
Hamlet Machine (which she kept telling us about) she was really
excited to see what you were doing. I think she is expecting to see
you next year…

You must also tell Anna and I when you are performing in this country.

I am really curious about the show we were replacing. In fact, some of
the best people we had in the audience were just people who had been
searching on line and had picked your show as something out of the
ordinary to do with their Sunday evening (they said that they hardly
ever go to the theatre); they made do with ours but yours obviously
has something about it. Oh and there was the actor (whose name I have
forgotten) who picked your show as part of his Saturday evening
‘route’. In some ways it felt as though we were wearing somebody
else’s perfume! Now we want to know what it smells like in the right
place.

All the best,
Adrian (and Anna).

From: Øystein
Sent: 16 September 2008 17:10:01

Dear Adrian and Anna,

Well, thanks for helping us out! It was brilliant for us to be able to recommend a good show rather than just disappearing and leaving the festival in a trick situation… We’re glad you enjoyed playing there, and that you had a good reception!

Hearing about all the people who had randomly discovered our show, or had been eagerly anticipating it is rather weird, sitting here in little Sidcup…

We’ll definitely go to the Amsterdam Fringe next year. And perhaps you will too, if this year’s ad hoc performance was a success?

It doesn’t seem like Now You See It will surface again, at least not for a while. After interrupting and calling off rehearsals and performances this time we feel like the moment has passed for that particular show. But, we’re up to our neck in other plans and ideas instead. You can see the first ten minutes of Now You See It on our YouTube page, if you haven’t done that already. There were a number of further ideas known only to me and Pip (both or one of us) which the world will never know. In combination with what we already had and the what the blurb promised, I’m sure it would have been a very intriguing show. Now, it’s the show that never was. An idea which does have a certain romantic, mystical or even eery quality to it.

We have our next performance in November, and you should come and see it if you can! Its a very different kind of show to Now You See It, its called Norway.Today and is a piece of drama where video is essential to the story, and we use live feed video projection a lot. Its on at Southwark Playhouse as part of the Theatre Café Festival arranged by Company of Angels.

Best wishes,

Øystein and Pip

(PS. Can I use this email-conversation as an entry for our blog? I liked your perfume-analogy and my “show that never was”)
From: Adrian
Sent: 17 September 2008 23:34:43

Dear Øystein,

I’ll just reply to you quickly – otherwise I won’t get to reply for a
week or more.

So:

I watched the Now You See It video. I think it’s a shame that you are
not continuing to work on that because I think there is something very
promising about the place you started from. Maybe you can cannibalize it for new shows.

Please feel free to use the e-mail conversation. I assert no ownership.

Hope to see you in November.

Best, best,
Adrian.
For more info about TheSamePerson have a look at their webpage: http://www.thesameperson.com
(and make sure you watch their funny and weird little videos!)

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