Photographer: Carl Thorborg
1984
by George Orwell
1984
SCENOGRAPHY & COSTUME DESIGN BY JOHANNA MÅRTENSSON
SCRIPT
Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan
STAGE
Riksteatern, 2015-2016
(The National Touring Theatre)
DIRECTOR
Sara Giese
TRANSLATION
Stefan Lindberg
LIGHT
Sophie Andersson
PROJECTIONS
David Giese
MAKE UP
Anna Olofsson
This dramatization focuses on a control and monitoring theme. Language and memories are washed out, now and then are confused and outer events can not be detached from beliefs and fantasies.
I created a big, claustrophobic, white tunnel, representing Big Brothers eyes as well as a room within the main character Winston´s head.
Projections pictured the all seeing Telescreen or painted the construction with abstract environments. A hidden back room served as TV-studio for live camera footage projections. When Winston believes he is dwelled in a secret room, he is actually simultaneously seen by Big Brother and the audience. When he is revealed, the tunnel breaks apart, the TV-studio is revealed as well and the theatre room is exposed as a construction and fake reality.
REVIEWS
Det är en intelligent ingång där både surrealism och ett upphävande av tid och rum får teman om övervakning och kontroll att expandera till ett hisnande omfång. / I ett elegant scenrum placeras publiken inne i den frihetslängtande kamrat Winstons huvud. / En dröm, en psykos eller en horribel verklighet utspelas, gestaltat av åtta starka skådespelare och med snillrika multimediala inslag i ett expanderande och imploderande scenrum. / Lysande exempel på en kreativ men inte krystad romantolkning.
Västerbottens-Kuriren October 15, 2015
English
There is an intelligent input where both surrealism and the repeal of time and place, the themes of surveillance and control to expand to a breathtaking range. / In an elegant set design the audience is placed inside the liberty longing Comrade Winston's head. / A dream, a psychosis or a horrible reality unfolding, designed by the eight strong actor with brilliant multimedia features in an expanding and imploding stageroom. / A shining example of a creative but not straining the novel interpretation.
Scenbygget förtjänar några berömmande ord. En steril kupol som andas futurism och som i andra akten överraskar med att klyvas i flera delar innan den slutligen byggs ihop igen. Här finns också en stor tv- skärm som bidrar med fladdrande bilder och korta filmklipp och ger en tydlig och snygg bild av vansinnet när Winston sitter och raderar ut människors existens ur arkiven. Till det rent estetiska bidrar också en sådan enkel detalj som att alla bär jeanskläder i sin fåraktiga strävan efter enhetlighet.
Hilda Blomberg, Hallandsposten
English
The Stage construction deserves some praising words. A sterile dome that exudes futurism and in the second act surprises to be split into multiple parts before finally being built up again. There is also a large television screen that helps with flickering images and short movie clips and gives a clear and attractive picture of madness when Winston sits and wipes out human existence from the archives. To the pure aesthetic also helps such a simple detail like all are wearing jeans clothes in their sheeplike strive for consistency.
Den maffiga scenografin och videoprojektionerna höjer helhetsupplevelsen och jag lämnar teatern påmind om hur egoistiskt och världsfrånvänt vi lever våra liv just nu.
Martin Johansson, OP
English
The impressive set design and video projection are raising the whole experience and I leave the theater reminded of how selfish and world from the waiting we live our lives right now.