Arrival Cities: Vaxjo

If “Arrival Cities: Malmö” was set in the verge, at the border and the passport control, in a limbo in a lawless no-man’s-land, one can say that in Växjö, there is the attempt to come through, become a part, to get a place in this new land. Can’t I just stand here in the shadow and be silent, something like that was the last line in Malmö and Växjö starts with a woman that don’t want to die, that has a body and a voice, that wants to be included, that has rights, or? On a big screen the woman’s escape is projected, houses on a row, the road outside the bus window. Pre-recorded voices say yet you have adapt to where you come, they say yet etc. etc. The music points to Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” but feels also very cinematic, I associate to Bernard Herrman’s music for Hitchcock’s “Psycho” where also a woman is sacrificed.

So does this this vicious tale about the body, the voice, the rights by the actors’ voices, the music and the song take shape into a powerful theatre concert.

(Maria Edström Swedish Radio P1 24 October 2013, own translation)

Concept: Jörgen Dahlqvist, Kent Olofsson | Text, video, light: Jörgen Dahlqvist | Music, sound design: Kent Olofsson | Video, sound, stage and light technician: Johan Nordström | Vokalharmonin, Musica Vitae, Teatr Weimar, actors: Linda Ritzén, Pia Örjansdotter, Kajsa Ericsson | Conductor: Fredrik Malmberg | Working period: January – October 2013 | Premiere: Växjö, Araby Park Black Box, 18 October 2013

Performances:

Inkonst, Malmö, October 21-22, 2013

Radiohuset, Studio 2, Stockholm, October 24 -25, 2013

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