CPH Post - 2019 Copenhagen Stage

23 May - 1 June 2019 cphstage.dk/en

CPH Stage: boldly embracing artistic expression

Writing a preview of a theatre festival is not dissimilar to trying to understand a piece of performance dance or art.

Assessing the work as a whole does not always yield dividends, but analysing parts of it does. This can often require the writer/viewer to reappraise everything they thought they knew. In a word: infuriating.

Identifying underlying themes is mostly futile. Just when you thought you had an understanding of the essence, an element comes along that smashes your conceptions to smithereens.

Often there is no method to the order. Components come and go, and sometimes they come back again – establishing any kind of continuity is best avoided.

And afterwards it’s open to interpretation whether it has been a success. Limited attention does not measure anything – the creator will know in their heart whether they have been true to themselves, or lowered their ideals for the sake of conformity.

No boundaries If you had difficulty following that logic, you’re probably not the only one, and for many the world of performance dance and art is one that will remain forever alien.

But Copenhagen Stage is past caring. Now, in the seventh edition since its launch in 2013, the theatre festival is boldly taking the shackles off its participants and encouraging them to go in the direction their artistic expression takes them.

Back to the bare bones Last year it was easy to nail what Copenhagen Stage was trying to achieve in regard to its foreign audiences – an important stepping stone on its journey to establishing itself internationally.

Danish theatre is often elusive to those who have not mastered the language, and by translating domestic offerings, or offering them with subtitles, the festival was able to share the very best this country has to offer.

But sometimes this comes at the cost of authenticity – losing the nuances of the local language, taking performers out of their comfort zone and compromising their integrity. Significantly this year, there are no subtitles.

In effect, Copenhagen Stage has been deconstructed – and for the greater good. Nothing is watered down; like the Corpus and Roskilde collaboration (see page 9), it is raw.

It’s time to respect original work, performed as it was intended.

Plenty of heavyweights This supplement contains 43 listings of productions that are either performed in English or require no knowledge of any language to enjoy.

Starting on page 4, we present the six shows especially selected for the international program. Each received 20,000 kroner in funding to help realise their dream. All six are the work of widely renowned and upcoming Danish artists who work internationally.

The performances won’t be to everyone’s tastes – although there are some notable exceptions that are universally accessible – but there are no longer any half-measures.

‘Dark Noon’ (also page 4) is one of the few accessible works to find its way into the festival’s main highlights selection. Along with Oh Baby … It’s Cole (page 11) and The Real Raw (page 10), it’s a musical performance on a grand-scale, and all three of the runs are longer than the festival’s duration.

Theatre groups from Denmark and overseas are helping Copenhagen Stage to realise its potential as northern Europe’s most important fringe theatre festival.

Not to be outdone, the drama productions have a few heavyweights – not least from Mr Shakespeare himself: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (page 5) and Macbeth (page 9).

If there is a theme this year it is that expression should know no boundaries: neither across borders nor spanning religious difference, nor of our collective imaginations.

The former will be staged outside at Ofelia Plads and is free to attend.

Performed before a sunset and in the twilight of an early summer’s evening, it’s a setting that even the Bard would have approved of.

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Dark Noon

May 23-25, 28-31 & June 1, weekdays 20:00, weekends 16:00; Revolver på Republique, Øster Fælled Torv 34, Cph Ø; 195kr; osterbroteater.dk

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SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS

The black hand holding a white revolver on the promo suggests this must be the version in which Gary Cooper gets gunned down by Django Unchained – or the new sheriff in ‘Blazing Saddles’.

Fix&Foxy, the producer of this staging, presented ‘A Doll’s House’ at last year’s CPH STAGE – a rare chance to see Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 play in a real home – and now they’ve swapped suburbia for the savannah: an African landscape of red clay and a primitive village.

Aptly, on a stage called Revolver, director and writer Tue Biering is taking charge of an ensemble of South African performers, who will play out an African western to mirror our romanticised ideas of savage Africa.

In their own words: “Neither black nor white lives matter”.

Human in Balance

May 27-28, Mon 20:00 & Tue 18:00; Pakhus 11, Dampfærgevej 2, Cph Ø; 150kr; noorahannula.com

May 27-29, Mon & Wed 20:00, Tue 14:00; Teater V i Prøvehallen, Porcelænstorvet 4, Valby; 175kr; dongnu.dk Christoffer Brekne

Søren Meisner

The Ultimate Battle

Noora Hannula throws herself into a grotesque, wild but hilarious showdown with her virtual girlfriend Soma. Don’t miss this modern dance/3D animation hybrid incorporating martial arts and erotic clichés.

This is a poetic, physical and musical tale that reminds us that we cannot move without our behaviour affecting others. Contemporary dance, performance theatre and new circus merge for this spectacle.

Sensuous Governing

The Art of Dying

Post No Bills

An Eve and An Adam

May 27-29, 16:00; Københavns Rådhus, Rådhupladsen 1, Cph V; sistershope.dk

May 27-28, Mon 18:00, Tue 20:00; Nørrebro Teater, Ravnsborggade 3, Cph N; 185kr; paolonani.com

May 27-29, Mon 20:00, Tue & Wed 19:30; Dansekapellet, Bispebjerg Torv 1, Cph NV; 175kr; kittjohnson.dk

May 26-28, Sun & Mon 20:00, Tue 16:00; Teaterøen, William Wains Gade 11, Cph K; 95kr; granhoj.dk

Imagine if sensuality, not sustainability, ruled the roost. In Sisters Hope’s immersive performance-installation at City Hall, visitors explore the possibilities of a future society governed by poetic values.

A sad fact: the one thing sadder than the tears of a clown is the death of one. However much they laugh, they struggle, they endure, they sob – nobody cries or dies quite like a crown does … in silence.

Impressive audio and visuals reminiscent of Alien – think bodily convulsions and hands attacking faces – all performed by a man who looks like he’s about to storm the Iranian Embassy. After all, who would post bills to them?

Imagine you went shopping in the nude. On social media, this would be art, but in reality you’d be arrested. Narcissism is rife in the fitness centres, but we have become afraid of our own bodies.

This performance, unsurprisingly, contains nudity.

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MULTIPLE PERFORMANCES

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

After Hours Theatre Company

May 27-31, 20:00 all nights bar Wed 18:00; Ofelia Plads, Kvæsthusbroen, Cph K; no tickets nor reservations; ofeliaplads.dk

A large cast featuring That Theatre regulars Rasmus Emil Mortensen, Benjamin Stender and Ian Burns will be staging a two-hour production of Shakespeare’s most endearing comedy in the harbour setting of Ofelia Plads.

Inhabiting a large area, attendance is free, so this is the perfect opportunity to gather friends and family and enjoy a night of culture next to the water.

Director Thomas Magnussen has made a few cuts to shorten the running time, and most of the actors are taking on multiple parts to share the workload.

The play within a play, for example, will be performed to just two actors, playing Theseus and Hippolyta, who will also portray Oberon and Titania.

Jefferson Bond (The Goat), Linda Elvira (Shakespeare’s Women) and Kevin Kiernan-Molloy (Mairead) lend able support.

Wunderkrammer

May 23-26, 30-31 & June 1, 18:00, ends June 8; Teaterøen, William Wains Gade 11, Cph K; 510kr; shiso-studio.com

May 24-28, every 15 mins from 16:00-19:00; Teaterøen, William Wains Gade 11, Cph K; 95kr; cblanche.dk

Sanna Lehto

Bo Amstrup

Mrs Phink’s House

Saltwater is on the menu – and you know what they say about pouring it onto wounds. Humanity’s salvation lies in plants, and Denmark’s coastline and submarine flora has never been so relevant to a future you can taste thanks to Mrs Phink’s food artists and chefs.

Coema May 25-26, Sat & Sun 16:00, Sat 20:00; Commedia School Studio, Strandlodsvej 69, Cph S; 90kr; commediaschool.com

The only certainty is that with each choice comes loss, confide the narrators of this story, an actress and accordionist searching for life’s answers, who take us through a series of encounters with sorcerers, witches and legions of otherworldly beings.

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Hidden Number – Special Edition

Lose your phone at the door and step into a space in which time stands still. Teaterøen’s loft has been converted into an immersive performance-installation where stories, scents, sounds and splendour will sparkle our curiosity, inviting us to wonder at the world we live in.

The Spot

May 26-29; 17:00 all days bar Tue, eight performances in total; Carlsberg Museum, Valby Langgade 1, Valby; 510kr

May 27-29, three performances per evening between 18:00 & 21:00; Nytorv, Nytorv 1, Cph K; 35kr; teaterbilletter.dk

It’s role-playing, but in a concrete jungle without costumes.

Reinvent yourselves as existential detectives and urban explorers in this immersive 2018 Reumert Award winner as you visit secret sites around the city, following instructions sent via your phone.

Out damned spot and stand under the spotlight, as we have some serious questions for you.

Follow its journey out of the darkness and manifestation in the light, on your sheets, clothing and body, and in your brain and DNA. Remember: we all have a spot!

Voice of the Audience in the Cinema May 27-28 & 31, 10:00, 12:00 & 14:00; Forsøgsstationen, Sønder Boulevard 81, Cph V; sold out

This year’s most popular show is on the silver screen. Or is it? Billed as screenings of interactive audience performances in Denmark and Italy, surely they won’t be able to resist the temptation to turn the camera on your good selves. All the world’s a stage, Hamlet!

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ENGLISH-LANGUAGE DRAMA

The Jungle

May 27-29, 20:00; Italian Culture Institute, Gjørlingsvej 11, Hellerup; tickets at door

May 23-24, 18:00; Teaterøen, William Wains Gade 11, Cph K; 95kr; onewomanact.dk

Marcello Bosschar

Peter Arebrendt

War’s Unwomanly Face

S.O.S.IETY

Rocky!

May 24-25, 21:00; Riddersalen, Allégade 7, Frederiksberg; 305kr

May 28-29, 20:00; Husets Teater, Halmtorvet 9, Cph V; 90-210kr

Henrik Ohsten Rasmussen

Behind the curtain and in the dressing room of Amanda, a go-go dancer in Los Angeles, the dreams of Hollywood stardom lie shattered on the floor. But fear not, as this story of survival – a one-person, acrobatic, rock ‘n’ roll ballet – is ultimately an uplifting tale.

Line Svindt

The stage adaptation of Svetlana Aleksievitch’s novel, which questions why war heroines tend to be unsung footnotes in history, has enjoyed great success in Brazil. At the helm is Marcello Bosschar, a familiar name on the theatre scene who now resides in Rio.

The era is more Titanic than HMS Pinafore aboard the S.O.S.iety, a theatre-cabaret performance incorporating swing music and new circus. But as hard as it might be to emulate the Zirkus dancers and acrobats, the message is the same: we are all in the same boat.

Inspired by the Sylvester Stallone film, Morten Burian narrates and then acts in this politically-charged monologue about how modern Denmark has trampled on the underdog. Served by powerful imagery, this Reumert Award winner is hard to forget.

Ant Street

Sved Belinda

Never Look Back

Crave #2

May 25, 20:00; Teaterøen, William Wains Gade 11, Cph K; 95kr

May 30-31, 19:00; Teaterøen, William Wains Gade 11, Cph K; 95kr

May 31, 19:00; Lokale, Griffenfeldsgade 27, Cph N; no tickets or reservations

May 31, 18:00; Korsgade 12-14 st, Cph N; 110kr

Something heavenly is happening in Havana, but a young man speaking the poetry of the Gods is the least of it. A snowstorm in a heatwave, a girl who can fly and the delivery of a long-lost parcel bring Roland Schimmelpfennig’s fantasy to life.

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Put on your bathing suit and join Franca and Frank, a musical duo in search of spiritual purification.

This journey around Teaterøen ends with a musical sauna experience, or does it? Clear your calendar for a climax at Bådteatret a couple of days later.

It didn’t work out for Lot’s wife, but with Berlin-based performance art aficionados Anja Ibsch and Lan Hungh on stage, this is a meeting of true individuals that will make the audience reassess everything they thought they knew about the genre.

In this interactive, provocative and intimate piece of performance art, the audience are challenged to question the difference between sex work and prostitution. Enter this intimate space and you may emerge enlightened.

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A Mouthful of Birds May 30-31 & June 1, 19:30; Basement Kbh, Enghavevej 42, Cph V; 110kr

As That Theatre’s 2018 production of ‘A Number’ demonstrated, Caryl Churchill is one of this era’s most important playwrights.

She took one of society’s most loaded issues, human cloning, to produce a compelling psychological drama that cut to the bones of the matter.

The title of this play, which she co-wrote with anthropologist David Lan, sounds like a rather bony swallow.

Despite its Ancient Greece setting, its seven vignettes – dealing with issues such as infanticide, bestiality, voodoo, transgenderism and alcoholism – offer a disturbing perspective on mental illness and sexuality that resonates strongly with society today.

It’s all the more impressive given that the play was written in 1984. George Orwell would be proud.

Constantin Gindele

ENGLISH-LANGUAGE DRAMA

Chronicle of Light Year

Macbeth

May 27-28, Mon 18:00, Tue 19:00; Teaterøen, William Wains Gade 11, Cph K; 95kr

Ingrid Bugge

Terry Lin

May 27-29, Mon 17:00, Tue 21:00, Wed 17:00; Pakhus 11, Dampfærgevej 2, Cph Ø; 80kr

Taiwanese new media artist Chou Tung-Yen harnesses his amazing 4D Box Hologram to create a majestic and immersive scenography for the peripatetic story of two time-travellers and their intimate memories light-years away.

Our CPH POST reviewer recommends this “urgent, agile, savage and taboo-riddled version” of Shakespeare’s Scottish tragedy. Rendered by just two performers, Teaterøen founders Peter Kirk and Tilde Knudsen, it is a remarkable feat of ingenuity.

We Open Our Mouths

Last Hive

May 27-28, Mon 20:00, Tue 11:00 & 15:00; Warehouse9, Halmtorvet 11, Cph V; 160kr

May 28-29, 16:00; Zangenbergs Teater, Pilestræde 55A, Cph K; 135kr

Forgetting ...

Remembering

Anika Kristensen Barkan sets a showdown with time itself. It’s time to shake off the indifference in a world bombarded with doomsday scenarios and regain the spirit of childhood and unshakable belief that we can change the world together.

This is ‘The Matrix’with honeybees.

Hailed as “hilariously silly” by Deadline News, this is a journey of discovery we can all relate to – even if it is about a chosen drone on a mission to save the hive at a risk of being radicalised.

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May 28-30; Tue & Wed 18:00, Thu 16:00; Teaterøen, William Wains Gade 11, Cph K; 95kr

Performers Melanie Thompson and Bjarne Sandborg explore the concept of remembrance as a catalyst for discovery and recognition of contemporary issues. The result is two very different expressions, but one compelling performance.

Salt May 28-29, 20:00; Teatret Zeppelin, Valdemarsgade 15, Cph V; 135kr

Inspired by real events and ‘The Fishermen’, a 1928 novel by Hans Kirk, the experience of a young girl trying to cope with the death of her father, and his subsequent damnation by the local priest, raises existential questions that society does its best to avoid.

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The Real Raw May 23-25; Corpus, A-salen, Tordenskjoldsgade 10, Cph K; 200kr; kglteater.dk

Rock and ballet in their rawest forms aren’t too dissimilar. Just watch Mick Jagger in his prime, or for that matter Rudolf Nureyev, an undisputed rock star in tights that Alice Cooper would have killed for.

And now the all-girl Danish rock trio Baby in Vain and five members of the Royall Ballet dance troupe Corpus are putting the theory to the test with an ambitious collaboration that is heading to this year’s Roskilde Festival.

Before it gets there, grab a sneak preview as celebration, imagination and emotion come together in this deconstruction of a live concert.

Can you dance to noise/can you rock out to dance? Of course you can, all eight performers reply in unison.

Simen Dieserud Thornquist

MUSIC & DANCE

En Vano

May 23, 19:00; Brønshøj Skole, Klintholmvej 5, Brønshøj; no tickets/ reservations

May 23-25, Thu 19:00, Fri 21:00 & Sat 15:00; Folketeatret, Nørregade 39, Cph K; 150kr Danza Mobile

Bahadir Berber

Just Blazin’ Old School

Part of the aim is to provide teachers with inspiration for the classroom.

But Uppercut Danseteater’s show about friendship, dreams and defeat offers so much more, combining funky urban dance and more traditional elements. It’s the talk of the playground.

At first glance, the assembly team to make this IKEA cupboard looks too large. But this is less about the body, and more about exploring the gaps found in any sculptural work. The team from the Spanish award-winning theatre Danza Mobile is perfectly in proportion.

Helliot

Geules Noires

Raiders of the Grey Gold Silicum

May 23-25, Thu 21:00, Fri 19:00 & Sat 13:00; Folketeatret, Nørregade 39, Cph K; 150kr

May 24, 19:30; Dansekapellet, Bispebjerg Torv 1, Cph NV; 175kr

May 25, 19:30; Aveny-T, Frederiksberg Allé 102, Frederiksberg; 200-270kr

May 27 & 29, Mon 22:15 & Wed 14:00; Pakhus 11, Dampfærgevej 2, Cph Ø; 80kr

To underline its casting as the dark horse of this festival, this solo work from Danza Mobile examines what makes every one of us unique as individuals.

The last time a horse’s head had this much impact was in ‘The Godfather’.

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This powerful urban dance piece hails France’s forgotten man, the miner who stoked the fires of the country’s economy in the post-war era, and through its title (black faces) questions the racism that has ever since been directed at immigrants from north Africa.

Life is fleeting, we are reminded as the dancers throw themselves into an acrobatic quest for ‘the grey gold’ – a quest to find the beauty of the decay of time. This tragi-comedy includes daredevil antics, musical poetry and humorous self-realisation.

Danish duo Silicium (composer and performer Bjørn Svin and visual artist Carl Emil Carlsen) present a surreal music experience in which throbbing organic rhythms blend with biologically-inspired simulations.

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May 23-25, 27-29 & 31 & June 1, weekdays 19:30, weekends 15:00; Krudttønden, Serridslevvej 2, Cph Ø; 185kr; londontoast.dk

Thomas Petri

Oh Baby … It’s Cole

MUSIC & DANCE

“You don’t throw the word ‘genius’ around loosely, but … ” said Bob Hope of Cole Porter, who wrote more than 1,200 songs for the stage and screen, including classics such as ‘Anything Goes’, ‘I Get a Kick Out of You’, ‘You’re the Top’ and ‘Let’s Do it’.

Vivienne McKee, the creator of the Crazy Christmas Cabaret, is a life-long fan of Porter – not just his music but the man himself.

“He could have wasted his life in indulgent pursuits and left no mark at all,” she recently told CPH POST. “But instead he chose to work hard and become the musical genius he is now acknowledged to be.”

In this new show, McKee is taking us back to the culturally rich inter-war period to celebrate an artist who became the toast of society.

The Actor and the Übermarionette

May 29, 18:00; Københavns Rådhus, Rådhupladsen 1, Cph V

May 31, 17:00; Forsøgsstationen, Sønder Boulevard 81, Cph V; free adm, bookings required Øyvind Kirchhoff

Søren Meisner

Extended Falls to Humanity

Tapping into the hopes and dreams of citizens, Recoil is cornering the market for performance dance perfectly suited to town hall locales.

Following April visits to Ringkøbing and Helsingør, they arrive in the capital to explore its essence: the fabric of our lives.

No Sex May 28-29, 17:00; Dansekapellet, Bispebjerg Torv 1, Cph NV; 160kr

Tackling society’s expectations of gender and sexuality, Black Box Theatre is true to its name. Well, almost, as this box – from which four individuals, alone but united at the same time, embark on a journey of discovery – is white.

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Immortality & Global Souls May 28-29, 18:00; Dansekapellet, Bispebjerg Torv 1, Cph NV; 145kr

Next Zone presents a raw and innovative mix of urban dance and new dance with elements of butoh and new circus. While ’Immortality’ explores extreme versions of eternal life, Global Souls assesses humankind’s limitless adaptability.

Puppeteers Bjarne Kalhøj and Rolf Søborg Hansen join performers Lotte Faarup and Øyvind Kirchhoff for an immersive performance that places the audience behind the scenes, at the end of the strings and in the shoes of the performers.

Korper

Moving Stories

May 29, 19:00; Teaterøen, William Wains Gade 11, Cph K; 95kr

May 28-29, Tue 18:00 & Wed 14:00; Union, Nørre Allé 7, Cph N; 170kr

Is life an eternal struggle to return to the Garden of Eden?

Co-produced by De Nieuwe Oost and SHiFFT, this sci-fi re-imagination of Genesis explores why conflicted humankind will never be able to make it back to paradise.

Loosely inspired by HC Andersen’s fairy-tale ‘The Ugly Duckling’, Korean traditional music combines with Danish opera and folk music to present a physically interactive tale that examines why humans deny one another a better life with regularity.

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It's Oh Baby... Cole

"Oh Baby, it's Cole" is Vivienne McKee's entertaining, toetapping cabaret show based on the incomparable music and sophisticated life of Cole Porter. It tells the story of Cole's life through his songs, and invites the audience to appreciate his clever use of the English language as well as his brilliantly innovative melodies.

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KRUDTTØNDEN MAY 15TH 2019 - JUNE 1ST 2019 TICKETS: 4053 4949 TEATERBILLETTER.DK BILLETLUGEN.DK

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