Where
The New Diorama Theatre
15-16 Triton Street, London NW1 3EF
When
Sunday 7 June 2015 at 7 pm
Arne Lygre has been writing novels, short stories and plays since 1998 and, among a host of other prizes over the years, was presented with Norway’s Ibsen Award for his drama I Disappear (Jeg Forsvinner) in 2013.
Directed by Kay Michael, and energetically performed by Peter Clements, Peter Hobday and James Marchant, the Empty Deck production of Then Silence brings a relentless physicality to Lygre’s precise, lyrical script, atmospherically reminiscent of Beckett or Pinter.
Stranded in a place that is both somewhere and nowhere, three characters begin a game to formulate the world, playing out 10 scenarios in dialogue, each exploring the lengths man will go to – and the depths he might sink – in order to survive. Touching on loss, grief, playground violence, drunken teenage awareness of mortality, the impulse towards aggression infidelity and the darker corners of the human condition, Then Silence transcends the bleakness of its subject matter and raises a much-needed mirror to our modern world.
Photo: Siren Høyland
The New Diorama Theatre
15-16 Triton Street, London NW1 3EF
Sunday 7 June 2015 at 7 pm
Norwegian Art