Let you be
Intimate and unrefined about loneliness and a sense of belonging.
Directed by Johannes Holmen Dahl
It is a warm summer night, and a group of boys drink beer and go for a swim. Two people come walking by. Everything goes wrong. Everybody involved needs someone with whom to share the incident. Someone to blame. They search for security, while life is destroyed. Who have you been, and who will you be when everything is turned upside down?
In the performance Let you be this and other stories are told through the characters Person, Friend, Acquaintance, Stranger and Enemy. Every story and every encounter is connected, and the result is a tale about loneliness, severance, a sense of belonging and who we are to each other. But this is also a story about hope, mercy and love – and about who is by our side when the Earth shatters.
Let you be is a new work by Arne Lygre, one of our leading playwrights. Since his debut in 1998, he has received the Brage Award and the Ibsen Award, been acclaimed abroad and translated into 15 languages. Lygre is a resident playwright at Nationaltheatret.
His beautiful, intimate and raw text is in safe artistic hands: the ground-breaking Rebecca Ringst is responsible for scenography and costume design, while the young, up-and-coming Johannes Holmen Dahl directs. He completed his degree from Kunsthøgskolen in Oslo summer 2015, and the last year he has worked at Dramaten in Stockholm, where he staged a critically acclaimed production of The Child by Jon Fosse.
Actors: Tone Mostraum, Andrine Sæther, Glenn André Kaada, Hanne Skille Reitan and Olav Waastad.
Director: Johannes Holmen Dahl. Scenography and costume design: Rebecca Ringst. Light design: Norunn Standal. Make-up: Eva Sharp. Dramatic advisor: Mari Vatne Kjeldstadli.