It’s been a mad (as always) and (unusually) busy start to 2008.
Oystein is in the midst of preparing two shows; Beauty in Stone at Camden People’s Theatre with the new integrated performance company Preface Morn (http://www.perform.tv/thescenepool/beautyinstone.html) and his solo performance Imitating Eloquence which will be performed in Kristiansand, Norway on 1st February.
Pip is currently in rehearsal for Peter Handke’s silent piece The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other at the National Theatre (opens 6th Feb).
On the Imploding Fictions front we have our new show Norway.Today coming up on the 22nd January at the Junction in Cambridge (book tickets under http:/www.junction.co.uk).
But the biggest Imploding Fictions news is that Hamletmachine was awarded the Premio Internazionale Claudio Gora at its guest performance in Rome! The Jury selected the production with the following statement:
For the ability to express through the poetry of the body, the power of imagery and strength of silences and the rigorous research conducted.
Øystein, Pip, Sergio Sivori and Cristina Giordana (the organizers of Premio Internazionale Claudio Gora)
We are really honoured to have been chosen for this award and would like to thank everyone at Laboratorium Teatro in Rome for their support and encouragement. Especially Sergio Sivori for laboriously sieving sand for us ; )
(Wherever we travel with this production, the 200 kilos of sand are a nightmare…)
We hope to perform in Italy again soon!
Hannah Boyde and Sammy Metcalfe rehearsing before the Rome performance. In the background 200 kilos of wet sand spread out on the floor to dry…
To read more about the Hamletmachine in Rome or Associazione Claudio Gora, check out these links:
http://www.assclaudiogora.it
http://www.laboratoriumteatro.it
http://www.groruddalen.no/spiller-hamlet-for-italienere.4443126-19208.html
http://www.teatroviviani.it/home/leggi.asp?id=921
http://www.dramma.it/drammaturgie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1441&Itemid=54