PEER GYNT
Music for stage, Teatret Vårt (2025)
A raw, visual and honest performance about longing, alienation, and the stories we tell ourselves to make life hang together.
Henrik Ibsen´sclassic screenplay is the story about losing oneself and the search for what was left behind. Caught between solitude and an an eternal strive for belonging, Peer is fabulating forth a reality where he himself is the centre. When he is forced to take responsibilty, everything falls apart. What is truth and what is lies when you sum up all of your choices?
Peer is both a liar, a poet and a manipulator, but also a human being in desperate search for belonging and love. Through a split family relationship, Peer is ceaselessly searching for something else, and through this becoming gradually more alienated. Peer moves outside society with his games and plays, and is hoping to hide the darknes he is carrying. He flees and burns the candle in both ends, before reality knocks on the door. Peer is a man we love, despite his weaknesses, or perhaps because he reminds us of our own fallibilty.
Victoria Meirik has created an unusual beautiful performance. Probably because it is so meticulous to the tiniest detail, and where all ingredients, costumes, light, scenography, music and acting, build up under the same theme, a tender and empathetic interpretation of the human being Peer Gynt.
Ingvild Langgård has written new and beautiful music in a folk song tradition that circle around the performance, combined with fine adaptations from Edvard Griegs original music.
Klassekampen, 2025
Peerless Peer!
Romsdals Budstikke
BY Henrik Ibsen
ADAPTATION BY Michael Thalheimer & Maja Zade
TRANSLATED BY Kristofer Grønskag
DIRECTOR Victoria Meirik
ACTORS Bjørnar Lisether Teigen, Anne Wiig, Anette Sissener Amundsen, Conrad James McLean, Lars Melsæter Rydjord, Manish Sharma
SCENOGRAPHY & LIGHT DESIGN Agnethe Tellefsen
COMPOSER & MUSICAL ARRANGEMENT Ingvild Langgård
COSTUME IDEA Synne Reichelt Føreland
COSTUME DESIGN Even Børsum
FOTO Eskild Bjerkestrand
