FESTIVITIES
BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2016
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Outdoor
Norwegian premiere
LILLE LUNGEGÅRDS- VANN
DATE / TIME Saturday 04 June at 24:00
DURATION 0:50
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 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 .
TICKET Standard : 100
BT Fordel : 50 % discount
Water Fools
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 .
It is technically difficult for an actor to maintain expression and freedom of movement on a floating element . By overcoming these challenges , the artists made a discovery . They found that the divide between reality and fantasy becomes fluid when a dynamic stage is placed in the ever-changing water reflection . The stage is no longer implausible and new myths can be freely created . This is how Water Fools was formed – as water art with 15 actors and thousands of spectators .
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 nature of mankind .
Theatre critic Lyn Gardner in The Guardian called the piece ‘ a beautiful vision of hell ’ and believes that if Lewis Carroll had created street art based on his visions , teaming up with Salvador Dalí and Hieronymus Bosch , he might have come up with Water Fools .
Bring something to sit on , borrow headphones from the festival and allow yourself to be seduced into fantasy when darkness sets in this Saturday !
Supported by H . Westfal-Larsen and Hustru Anna Westfal-Larsens Almennyttige Fond and Institut français de Norvège
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