Marble Crowd (IS)
Árið án sumars
Fimmtudagur 13. nóvember - 19:30 - 21:30
Stóri Salur, Borgarleikhúsið
4900 ISK
Aðgengi: Borgarleikhúsið er með hjólastólaaðgengi og aðgengileg salerni
Rómantísk hrollvekja um vináttu og veður
Hópur ungskálda bíður af sér óvenjulegan sumarstorm í sveitasetri við Genfarvatn. Þau drepa tímann með ýmsum óhugnaði en þetta kvöld er eitthvað annað og meira sem ásækir þau en bara skáldskapur.
Árið án sumars er ögrandi sjónarspil innblásið af raunverulegum atburðum sem áttu sér stað árið 1816 sem er betur þekkt sem árið án sumars. Höfuðskáld Rómantíkurinnar ætluðu sér að sleikja sólina við Genfarvatn en þurftu oft að verja tíma innandyra vegna veðurs því eldgos hinum megin á hnettinum hafði valdið óvenjulegu gjörningaveðri. Ýmis bókmenntaverk urðu til í þessari afdrifaríku sumardvöl, þar má nefna Frankenstein eftir Mary Shelley, Vampíruna (e. The Vampyre) eftir John Polidori og sum þekktustu ljóð Byrons lávarðar. Eins og þegar Viktor Frankenstein horfðist í augu við skelfilegt sköpunarverk sitt eða líkt blóðþyrstri vampíru sem svífur á fórnarlamb, stöndum við nú líka andspænis ógurlegri afturgöngu: afleiðingum gjörða okkar í formi loftslagsbreytinga.
Hinn umtalaði leikhópur Marmarabörn snýr aftur á svið með síðasta hluta hamfara-þríleiks síns. Fyrri sýningar hópsins, Að flytja fjöll í þremur atrennum og Eyður, hlutu mikið lof áhorfenda og gagnrýnenda og hafa verið sýndar víða um heim. Marmarabörn stefna saman tilraunamennsku og hefðum leikhúsformsins til þess að setja á svið tímalausar sögur á áhrifaríkan og leikandi hátt.
Höfundur og leikstjórn: Leikhópurinn Marmarabörn
Leikmynd og búningar: Guðný Hrund Sigurðardóttir
Tónlist: Gunnar Karel Másson
Dramatúrg: Igor Dobričić
Aðstoðarleikstjórn: Birnir Jón Sigurðsson
Framkvæmdarstjórn. MurMur/Kara Hergils
Ljósahönnuður: Ólafur Ágúst Stefánsson
Stutt af: Rosendal Teater, Reykjavík Dance Festival, MASQ og Listaháskóla Íslands
Styrkt af: Sviðslistasjóði, Listamannalaunum, Norræna Menningarsjóðnum, Norrænu Ráðherranefndinni og Reykjavíkurborg.
Marble Crowd (IS)
A YEAR WITHOUT SUMMER
Thursday 13th November - 19:30 - 21:30
The Main stage, Borgarleikhúsið
4900 ISK
Access: Borgarleikhúsið has wheelchair access and accessible toilets
A gang of bohemic poets kill time by Lake Geneva as they wait for an unusual summer storm to pass. Entertaining each other with horror games and tales, the five friends find themselves haunted by something other than mere fiction.
A Year Without a Summer is a devised work of visual choreography for the big stage, a haunting performance about the summer of 1816 and the Gothic fiction of Frankenstein and The Vampire, authored that season. Through this lens, we look at how we are haunted by our past, especially now in the form of climate change. Disrupted weather is never made in the present but a result of actions in the past. These things are connected by a Mount Tambora erupting in Southeast Asia in 1815 that indirectly motivated the creation of the novels because of the climate crisis it created in Europe the following year.
The Icelandic based Marble Crowd collective is back with a contemporary gothic spectacle. In this ultimate performance of the collective´s landscape trilogy, the weather and the supernatural are both material and method.
Marble Crowd is an informal ensemble of artists based in Reykjavík, Iceland who have been working together in various constellations for more than a decade. Since they first started to collaborate in Scape of Grace (2013) and Predator (2014) led by choreographer Saga Kjerulf S.dóttir, their work has transitioned from choreographer-led ensemble to a collective of authors. Their first production as a collective, Moving Mountains in Three Essays premiered in 2017. It was a production of Marble Crowd and K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg as part of the festival TOGETHERAPART. Moving Mountains was nominated as the production of the year 2017 in Europe by Tanz Magazine and was also listed as Rising Stars in Performance Arts in Tanz Magazine 2017. In 2019 Marble Crowd was nominated as Choreographer of the Year by Icelandic Performance Arts Awards for Moving Mountains. Øland premiered at the National Theatre of Iceland in January 2020 to great acclaim. It was nominated for the Icelandic Performing Arts Award (Gríman) in 11 categories and won:
* Stage Choreography of the Year
* Best Original Music Score
* Best Costume Design
The group consists of Katrín Gunnarsdóttir (choreographer), Kristinn Guðmundsson (visual artist), Saga Kjerulf S.dóttir (choreographer), Sigurður Arent Jónsson (theater artist) and Védís Kjartansdóttir (dancer).
Author & direction: Leikhópurinn Marmarabörn
Stage- and costume designer: Guðný Hrund Sigurðardóttir
Music: Gunnar Karel Másson
Dramaturg: Igor Dobričić
Assistant director: Birnir Jón Sigurðsson
Production: MurMur/Kara Hergils
Light designer: Ólafur Ágúst Stefánsson