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Water Fools
Outdoor
Norwegian
premiere
L IL L E
LU N G E GÅ RDSVA N N
DAT E / T IME
Saturday 04 June
at 24:00
DU RAT ION
0:50
A DDIT ION A L
IN FORMAT ION
Purchase tickets
in advance to
save time. You
can borrow
headphones upon
presenting your
ticket. Headphones
can be picked up
from 21:00, and
should be returned
after the concert.
You cannot
use your own
headphones.
Water Fools
pre-concert
warm up at
Festspillplassen
from 21:00.
T IC K E T
Standard: 100
BT Fordel:
50 % discount
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Water theatre fills Lille
Lungegårdsvann with wild, surreal
and whimsical scenes in the
darkness of night.
Water Fools is a production where the French
theatre company Ilotopie blurs the line between
fantasy and reality. A man wakes one morning
to discover that his head is on fire. Soon he
finds himself on an epic journey where everyday
things become mystical creatures. Wonderful
sights, flames and light reflect in the water and
create dream-like scenes.
Water brings life to horizons and open spaces.
Water, like mountains and forests, is a reservoir
for the fantasy. These shimmering surfaces are
unspoilt sanctuaries where town dwellers can
allow themselves to be seduced into a perception of what can be found beyond the urbane.
The French theatre company Ilotopie sees water
with all its mythologies and associations as a
new arena on which to play. They find energy in
the water’s primeval and continuously flowing
form.
The music, composed by Phil Spectrum, is
classically inspired but also dark and carnivallike with fusions of opera and electronica. The
dramaturgy and choreography in the performance are built around Spectrum’s original
music. Lighting and pyrotechnics intensify the
imaginative scenes in a performance that follows the short-lived, dramatic and utopic