ASYLET VED VERDENS ENDE

“ASYLUM AT THE END OF THE WORLD” is a dream and a reality. People disappear, and the bereaved seek each other. Flowers break through the walls. Dead tumble out of lamps like night swarms, just as we all swarm one last night and then disappear.
It is the last stop. A battle between word and body, loss and recovery — and a forbidden love that, in its impossibility, also carries hope. Where to find light when night envelops the whole earth?

The text is written by five authors with widely varying artistic expressions and experiences. For a year and a half, they have been working with the desire 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.

The work is directed by Annika Silkeberg and will premiere on 22 May at the Corner Theatre during the Bergen International Festival. 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.