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Bergfiktioner
2022
Turteatern, Stockholm
Skogen, Göteborg
At the tourist office they said:
It's important to climb up the mountain and not fall into it
Because then you won't come out
But instead be crowned as a queen
With a crown of granite
The fiction of being captivated by the mountain recurs throughout history for various purposes, such as explaining mental illness or describing the suggestion in an art experience. The mountain seems to constantly draw people to itself, up onto it and into it. It is on the mountain that we meet the oracle, it is inside the mountain that we are held captive by the mountain king, and it is up the mountain that Sisyphus drags his luckless stone.
From the romantic idea of the sublime in nature, through the mountain films of the 1930s and the contemporary wanderlust, a series of commands return: romanticize, climb, conquer and extract. Based on the mountain as a place and symbol, with this landscape theater, we want to study its mythical, historical and contemporary meanings.
Text, directing & space: Olof Runsten
Music, Sound design och space: Patsy Lassbo
Performer: Anna Ladegaard
Light design: Christoffer Lloyd
Animation: Maja Korpi
Costume och scenography: Lina Lundquist
Publication: Barrie Sutcliffe (Skogen)
Production: Interim Kultur
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