THE ASYLUM AT THE END OF THE WORLD

"THE ASYLUM AT THE END OF THE WORLD" is a dream and a reality. People disappear, and the bereaved seek each other. We sense the contours of a world in disintegration, and a simmering rebellion. When a woman who is said to be from another time arrives at the asylum, the habitual gait of the place is challenged. We become witnesses to a struggle between words and bodies, loss and recovery, and a forbidden love that, in its impossibility, also carries the germ of hope. Where to find light when night envelops the whole earth?

The text is written by five prominent Nordic authors with widely varying artistic expressions and experiences. Together they have sought to create a work in which reality belongs not to one, but to many. A place where language meets contradiction. Where texts, driven forward by collisions, fractures and plurality, are as native as texts based on recognition and shared experience.

Developed on order by Cornerstone in collaboration with Den Nationale Scene and Bergen International Festival, the work has since its premiere in Bergen toured to Oslo, Stockholm, Stavanger and Fjaler. On stage, actors from Norway, Sweden and Denmark stand in a performance that portrays a life at breaking point, but which never loses sight of the possibility of change.