CASTLE OF JOY
Castle of Joy is based on the true story about the life and work of outsider artist Pól Jóhannus Poulsen, also called Joy. Pól Jóhannus was born in 1925, the youngest of 13 siblings, in a small village in the Faroe Islands. He was different and was treated as a village idiot. However, this did not stop him from pursuing his dream, which was to build a world of his own – a world of tangled jumble. At an early age he begins collecting discarded building materials, gathering jumbles of weathered plywood sheets, rusty roof tiles, bent nails and rusty screws He takes it all to the mountain fields and there he begins his ambitious project. But then disaster strikes. In 1939, after a violent incident with a classmate, who bullied him, Pól Jóhannus is sent to Denmark to an institution for mentally and physically disabled people.
Duration: 100 min
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THE COMPANY: DET FERÖSCHE COMPAGNIE
Listen to the conversation with the director Búi Dam in our podcast CONNECTED
INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY
“We have a burning desire to get our show as far international as possible. We believe that the story of Pól Jóhannus is very universal and that everyone can see themselves in. Our plan is to reach England and Scotland. We also already have contact with Greenland and Finland. And we hope that Cph Stage can start our international tour, as Faroese theater can very rarely be experienced outside the country’s own borders.”
CONTACT PERSON
Durita Sumberg Poulsen, duritasumberg@gmail.com, 0029 8267331
FORMAT AND SUSTAINABILITY
The performance is about Joy, a young man who builds his Castle of Joy out of recycled building materials. In the play the straight line of society plays an important role. It represents i.a. capitalist society today. Therefore the Castle of Joy, a world of tangled jumble, is built as a rebellion against the materialist and rationalist worldview that dominates our world today.
LANGUAGE
English
TRIGGER WARNINGS
Unkown
AUDIENCE TARGET GROUP(S)
Not specified
The presentation of this performance is part of the CONNECTING GREENLAND, FAROE ISLANDS & DENMARK project (supported by the Nordic Culture Fund).
CREDITS
Writing and directing: Búi Dam
Set design: Sámal Blak
Music: Dánjal á Neystabö
Choreograpy: Búi Rouch & Kristina Sörensen Ougaard
Performance: Kristina Sörensen Ougaard
Producer: Urd Johannessen & DFC