Oslo Nye teater : Plan 9 from outer space

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A horror/science-fiction/electronic musical, loosely based on the world’s worst film.

Ed Wood’s Plan 9 from Outer Space from 1957 has stood as a horror example of what a director’s arrogance can end up in. Now the film finds its way to the stage!

The Cold War is now, and the apocalypse was yesterday. The climate crisis and the nuclear bomb become insignificant when the aliens come to destroy us. Or are they going to save us? Release? No, how was it again?

Director Heiki Riipinen has a background in the award-winning performing arts collective by Proxy, and is now this year’s artist grant holder in Skien.

Playwright Sonja Ferdinand is a new star in Danish theatre. In her texts, different perceptions of reality collide and form the basis for new realities that we can share in the stage space. This is given its physical form by award-winning scenographer and costume designer Ingrid Tønder and performance-maker Ariel Efraim Ashbel on lighting design.

With a sound image by the Porsgrunn-born artist dragongirl, which By:Larm describes as a cross between club music, experimental music and performance, the audience can look forward to a feast of a theatrical experience.

You are interested in the unknown, the mysterious, the unexplainable; that is why you are here. – (Criswell Predicts, from opening monologue in Plan 9 from Outer Space).

A co-production with Grenland Friteater