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Axel Jensen's wondrous sci-fi novel Epp is resurrected as a puppet theater concert

Epp (1965) is the story of automation pensioner Epp in block 982, sector 3 in Oblidor, "far, far away and in the distant future". This is an absurd and humorous future dystopia that may have extra meaning for us today - now that we have just been through many months of lockdown and isolation, only to wake up to a new war in Europe.

A performance in retro-futuristic splendor to electron quake bass music by Lars Skoglund, performed by Oslo Sinfonietta. Direction and design by Tormod Lindgren/Theater Corpus.

With this, we would like to invite you to a preview and a meeting with the characters and puppeteers, director, set designer and puppet maker Tormod Lindgren and composer Lars Skoglund. For those who attend the preview, it will also be possible to get free tickets to the performance.

The production is based on a nostalgia for the future that is very present in our time. In design, architecture, music, art and performing arts. As a reaction to all the dangers that threaten life on earth, we long for a time when the future shone golden and the moon was still just a dream. Jensen's book is not an optimistic novel of the future; the elevator is always stuck in the block, the janitor doesn't change the fluorescent tubes, and eternal life has not been invented. We create this run-down, dirty future block, in an absurd and humorous future dystopia.

Epp is a retired worker living in the city of Oblidor in the country of Gambolia on an unspecified planet in the future. It's a thoroughly engineered, monitored class society where everyone has their place. The name Epp indicates that he is not very high on the social ladder - he represents the average. Had he been of a higher rank, his name would have had more letters, such as Eppe, Eppen or the optimal Eppenep. Epp is well aware that he could experience even greater shame: he could be demoted and end up with Ep or just E.

Idea, direction, all visual design and production: Tormod Lindgren
Actors: Thomas Hildebrandt, Geir Robsrud and Dominika Minacz-Sira
Composer: Lars Skoglund
The orchestral work will be performed by Oslo Sinfonietta
The play is adapted by Aina Villanger from Axel Jensen's novel EPP

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Theater Corpus was founded in 2017 by artistic director Tormod Lindgren and creates puppet theater productions for adults. In 2017 he staged "The City of Free Love" a satire of the Kristiania bohemia by Edward Munch. In 2021 "Simplicissimus" about the German satire magazine that during the Weimar Republic was a major opponent of Nazism.

Thursday, September 15, 2022

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