“Barbro Westling see Lars Noréns Andante at the royal dramatic theatre”
“approaching the final end unfurl it were most fair in life, so imagined the film director Pier Paolo Pasolini death effect. Lars Norén turn 75 in may and continues to write plays along his own biographical shoulder.”
“nTre pieces about the aging process together, make a trilogy, but the last piece, Poussièreu002FStoft premiered at the Comédie-Française in Paris, directed by Norén last year, Vintermusik in Sophia Jupithers version then followed on the Stockholm city theatre. Now will trilogins first piece, last, at the royal Dramatic theatre’s Small stage, directed by Lars Norén.”
“Who am I? What am I doing here? What are the others? Andante – walking pace, moderately slow – the title indicates the musical envelope and the characters are personalised as A, B, C, D, and E. Their varying stages of dementia creates a limbo and bits and pieces of the livsrester and social reflexes. A new way to speak and appear as a human being. What sounds, of course, what dialogue is possible when the norm of communication are gone?”
“nNorén is a master of writing through the interruptions, delays, the siding, the non-answer, the concurrent statement. Since the 90’s he has lined up idle and waiting families and friends in chairs far forward on the stage. In the Andante is the chairs gnarled bones and the actors ‘ faces turned very white. Noréns dramatic focus on what happens when nothing happens may have found its final destination.”
“A serviced residence for the elderly, for those who were forced to leave their own home. It is no coincidence that the environment is reminiscent of other institutions for captive as Norén described, in the Clinic, Skuggpojkarna or A kind of Hades. But socializing as a form of captivity actually again in all the Noréns plays. “
“nMest molded in the bitterness and contempt is B, the former krematoriearkitekten. Per Mattsson dominate by showing low-key grip, in a suit and shined shoes, and keep your eyes as continual as out of the reach attached to in the distance. The as yet feel his power, and challenge, is the C, byggarbetaren who want to have the tools with him in the coffin. Sten Ljunggren makes him impressive raw, almost dangerous, but in all powerful looking and is he still of the architect’s wife, A. C talking about to go to his room, but ”not yet”. Interaction, how horrible it is, is perhaps to be preferred.”
“nSnart they’re dead, but they also have their kill with them and seems themselves the living dead. D in their sleeping insulation the tanks to the Mummy in Strindberg’s Spöksonaten. Once she was a successful author, productive, beautiful and internationally omsusad. Now remember she has no books. Monica Stenbeck dress and black klädlager, any time a sizzling glare to Simon Weil, or the Bible’s gospels. E (Carl Magnus Dellow) is the most curious figure on the scene, a mixture of hobo and teatertrickster, with norénsk fishhook and coarse rope in rockfickan listen he around along the walls and hear havsbrus and votes.”
“which appears to be favoured with sporadically, the suspension is Marika Lindström A. She sinks into despair but switch reptilsnabbt up to resonansfylld sue and beautiful clarity. She hears the music, how wonderful the start! Lindström’s design reflects both the sharp and poetic ageing unbearable complexity.”
“it is once again in the power of the skådespelarprestationerna as Noréns drama convinces. More skeptical is I to the parts of his staging. Maybe it is hemtamheten with the content that creates the impression of the reboot and a temporary measure? I also wonder about the added scenes. Why pop the little blonde girl up with bloody hands, and then together with their mother? This is a troublesome scenic klichéaktighet.”
“Andante lands otherwise, from their hold, in a culture around aging that can get every one to keep out of laughter. It is reported increasingly about the abuses and shameless indifference towards the elderly. The latest in tv compared a professor in geriatrics, the perception of the old and the horses to the latter’s advantage.”
“nNoréns picture of the aging process is hard, but are hardly conducive to a discussion of society’s (lack of) care. In the Andante is the relatives ‘ visit is clearly disturbing and sets only to confusion. A, B, C, D and E are sitting each stuck in their hells. The text bitter one liners, gallows humor and hilarious contrasts is perhaps the most to for the audience to endure. But the question is if it works so. It is a very dark picture Norén sketches. Quite logically concludes we study massive concrete blocks around the scene around a grave.”
“n” AndantenManus & directed by: Lars NorénnScenografi: Lars Norén & Dick SandinnI roles: Lil Terselius, Per Mattsson, Sten Ljunggren, Monica Stenbeck, Carl Magnus Dellow, m flnScen: the royal dramatic theatre, Small scenennSpeltid: 2 h 45 min”
