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THE ONE WHO WHISPERS / 2012

THE ONE WHO WHISPERS

A Glow-in-the-Dark Comedy

2012



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Credits
Performers
Otto Nils P. Munk
Jenny Holst Rikke Lylloff
Woman Sarah Boberg
King Rasmus Hougaard & Pelle Nordhøj Kann
Lady Özlem Saglanmak

Concept, Direction Kirsten Dehlholm
Script Astrid Øye
Set and light design Jakob Oredsson, Kirsten Dehlholm
Sound design Janus Jensen
Costumes Kirsten Dehlholm
Dress for Jenny Holst Henrik Vibskov

Production Manager Phillip Scavenius Marquard Otzen
Stage Manager Malene Ruggaard
Stage Coordinator Rasmus Rahbek
Light Operator Peter Lorichs
Sound Operator Janus Jensen
Craftman Christoffer Havning
Tailor Mette Højberg
Costume Assistant Siri Vilbøl
Painting on dress and wall Anne Mette Fisker Langkjer
Director´s Assistant Laura Mortensen
Scenographic Assistant Anne Mette Fisker Langkjer
Cat Sculptures Michael Kirkegaard
Make up Gry Kjærgaard, MAC cosmetics
Video konsulent Kasper Stouenbourg
Photo Claudi Thyrrestrup

Production Hotel Pro Forma, Republique

REPUBLIQUE
Artistic Director Martin Tulinius
Producer Søren Normann
Communication, Direction Lisbeth Juul
Kommunication & PR Karen Toftegaard

The performance is supported by Konsul Georg Jorcks and Hustru Emma Jorcks Fond, Oticon Fonden and Toyota-fonden.

The performance is co-produced by Hotel Pro Forma and Theatre Republique and a part ofthe Danish Arts Council’s Company-in-Residence programme.

The performance is also co-produced by ILT13 and Bora-Bora.

Partner
Makeup provided by MAC Cosmetics.

Reviews
MagasinetKBH
From the first second, you are blown away. The lie creates basis for a deadly imagination and there is no turning back.

♥♥♥♥ – Politiken
The performance moves into a feverish, fluorescent darkness on the edge of death where lies and truths become one… This is genuine Hotel Pro Forma magic.

Frederiksborg Amts Avis
Beautiful and mind blowing!

Kulturshot
With The One Who Wisper, Republique invites you to an absurd psychological drama with excellent actors, a pitch dark manuscript and a fluorescent set design.. The borders between reality and dream are almost completely blurred by the end of the performance, and the audience is left with more than one unsolved riddle when the curtain goes down.

Kultunaut
The little lie is the starting point of the story in Hotel Pro Forma’s meeting with the dramatic theatre, The One Who Wispers. In that sense, director Kirsten Dehlholm and dramatist Astrid Øye work consistently to create a text based theatre where the story is about what you could call the core problem of the drama: How words obligate, how words have an impact on the physical actions on stage – but also outside the stage.
– Peripeti

First performances
Premiere on 10 November 2012 at Republique, Studio Stage, Copenhagen, Denmark

Otto has lost his sweetheart – Jenny Holst. He is grief-stricken at having lost his one true love. His ex-girlfriend consoles him. But Otto has never actually known Jenny. She is a tragic figure who has died without any next of kin. Otto has read the death ad in the newspaper and then starts to lie about the life they could have had together. Other people take part in the lie. Why is everyone trying to steal my Jenny? Otto whispers.

The One Who Whispers, as regards both form and theme, is an examination of how words come at a price – how we can shape our life and identity through language and at the same time be trapped by the utterances we make to the world. The text has a plot with a basic idea that is simple – a lie is taken at face value, acquires its own identity
and ends up defining the self-perception of all the characters as well as their perception of each other.

Hotel Pro Forma is known for its visual and musical performances. But with The One Who Whispers we want to show how space is an active physical and psychological co-actor that underlines and amplifies the statements made in words. The actors perform on stage with strict rules on how the space is to be used, by means of which the underlying meanings of the text are revealed. The intention is to place a psychologically based dramatic narrative into a particular spatial and visual framework in order to clarify existential themes to do with human relations in the text and the narrative – the relationship between closeness and distance, isolation and the search for contact. The dialogue calls for a visual, formalized staging, one where the humorous dimension arises out of the clash between dialogue and gesture. The text balances ingeniously between humor and danger – and nothing can be taken at face value. But tragic – that
it certainly is.


Danish
DEN DER HVISKER LYVER
En selvlysende komedie
2012

Otto har mistet sin elskede, Jenny Holst. Han er knust i sin sorg over at have mistet sin sande kærlighed. Men Otto har aldrig kendt Jenny. Hun er en tragisk skæbne, der er død uden pårørende. Otto har læst dødsannoncen i avisen og begynder at lyve om det liv, de kunne have haft sammen. Andre personer tager del i løgnen. Hvorfor prøver alle at stjæle min Jenny, hvisker Otto.
Den der hvisker lyver er både formelt og tematisk en undersøgelse af, hvordan ordet Fanger. Teksten har et plot, hvis grundlæggende greb er enkelt – en løgn bliver taget for pålydende, får sin egen realitet og kommer til at definere alle personernes opfattelse af sig selv og hinanden.

Forestillingen sætter en psykologisk-baseret dramatisk fortælling ind i en særlig rumlig, visuel ramme for at klargøre tekstens og fortællingens eksistentielle temaer af menneskelige relationer mellem nærvær og afstand, isolation og søgen efter kontakt.

Med Den der hvisker lyver ønsker Hotel Pro Forma at vise, hvordan rummet er en aktiv fysisk og psykologisk medspiller, der understreger og forstærker ordenes udsagn. Skuespillerne optræder med stringente regler for brugen af scenerummet, hvorved der åbnes for tekstens underliggende betydninger.

Dialogen spiller op til en visuel og formaliseret iscenesættelse, hvor det humoristiske opstår i sammenstødet mellem dialog og gestus. Teksten balancerer underfundigt mellem humor og farlighed, og ingenting skal tages for pålydende. Men tragisk det er det.

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