What's happening at Pilotscenen?

April 23, 2021

Are you wondering what's really going on at pilotscenen these days? Maybe you've passed by in Kabelgata and heard noises? Because we can't be open to the public quite yet, but there is still activity at pilotscenen. That's because we rent out the stage to various companies and ensembles that need a place to rehearse or recording rooms. At the moment, the Norwegian Soloist Choir is rehearsing the work ARCHIPEL by Birgitta Muntendorf with us, in connection with the Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival.

Previously, performing artist Henriette Pedersen has been with us for a long period of time to rehearse her new work MADAM. The performance was supposed to premiere at Black Box Theater next week, but unfortunately it has been canceled.

Brageteatret has also visited us for rehearsals of the youth production Bulletproof West, based on Yahya Hassan's poems and life. Yahya Hassan is the most talked about Danish (and possibly Scandinavian) poet of the last 5 years. He emerged as a groundbreaking poet at Danish publishing house Gyldendal at the age of 18. With a series of public controversies, admissions to psychiatric institutions and time in prison, he made his mark as a strong and brutal critic of both his own upbringing and Danish society. On April 28, 2020, Danish-Palestinian Yahya Hassan was found dead in his apartment, aged just 24. On stage we meet Mohammed Aden Ali, Simo Elh Babi and Nils Bendik Henningsen Kvissel.

Fortunately, we have had the opportunity to show a performance, namely Lost and Found productions as Oh baby baby baby. They created a digital version of the show and broadcast it live from our premises to school classes in Oslo in the new year. The two alien health nurses took over our office with lots of alien technology!

We are very excited to open to the public, so stay tuned! We will post the program as soon as possible.

Main photo: Bulletproof vest - Brageteatret. Photo: Signe Fuglesteg Luksengard