Clara, I've been to Aarhus.And you know what?It's crazy at Crushersby Aarhus.Crushersby?Yeah, that's what it's called now.Because we crush so hard at Aarhus.
No, okay, yes.Don't smile.No, okay.
I'm following.It's crazy how many young people there are in the theatre when you're in Aarhus.Yes.
I don't know if there was some kind of young thirst or something, but seriously, both for Bloodbath God, as I saw, and True Hope and Love, it was almost a sold-out hall, and it was overwhelmingly young people who sat in it.Yes.
And it wasn't just the school class, it was also just friends. Yes, friends who live together.But I would also like to say that it is not necessarily people who come to you a lot.And they had experiences.And I have made a little quiz for you.Okay.
You have to guess, Clara, what the guy behind me said on his way out of the bloodbath.
I love quizzes.Yes, I know.
That's why I made a quiz out of it.You get three quotes and you have to guess what the boy behind me says.Okay.Boy, I would say.The man, the young man.Okay.Good.Answer option 1.Yes. I don't get that shit, but I rarely do with theatre.Answer 2.
I always feel that those scenes in theatre where they have to scream unnecessarily much. 3.I'm a little disappointed that there was no blood.I mean, bloodbath shot, at least there was a single drop, but there was none.
What does the water behind me say?I think you've found something on the last one.Why do you think that?I feel that.It's a lot on the title.I feel that you've done that.Number 2.What was number 2 again?
I always feel that there are those scenes where you have to scream.And the first one, I don't get it.I think it's number 2. You know the young audience well.No, but I do.Oh, I'm all sweaty in my hands.
I think they scream extremely loud.
I could imagine that in a way.A camera game that really needs some emotions.
I'll tell you more about the camera game later.
Okay, I'm looking forward to that.
Welcome to the fourth week.
To the faithful listener, you can perhaps hear that we have got a new jingle. Isn't that nice?No, it's so nice.New identity.It's been many years since we've had the other one.It was us.Big thanks to Simon Hoo, who made it.
Now it's Lovage Jungian, who made this TV.
There's something new.A new season is underway.A new theater year.And we're in the middle of a stormy premiere month.But it's only just getting started.So in this episode, we'll take a look at what happened in August while we were away.
And take a look at Uden's Overhus, where I've been.
Yes, and I've brought something for you as well.Yes, what have you brought?Well, a tank.Exciting.
And something that fits very well into the fact that now we've entered the season and we have to talk a lot about theatre for the next few months, you and I. And we always talk about how nice it is to be able to have different approaches.
Yes, I love that too.But there's also something that has happened to me.When we don't have a conversation, I get disappointed and don't want to talk anymore.That's a bad starting point for a podcast.You don't want to talk anymore?
Yes, because then I can feel like, you don't understand.
When did we not have a dance performance?
I was there to see the Danish dance theatre's Bloody Moon, which is part of the Copenhagen Summerdance. It was an amazing experience.It was so beautiful, it was so delicious.I was so excited, I was like, you have to see it.
I sent my family to see it, it was in Aarhus the weekend after, I was like, you have to see it.And then you're going to see it on Saturday.
And then we meet afterwards, and I've been looking forward to it so much that we're going to fan-crush and everything about this show.And then you were like, Yeah, fine.That was a really fine performance.
And instantly I was like, we don't need to talk about it anymore.So I asked shortly, and then you said something like, I can feel it.
And you know what was funny?That night, because we're going to see Karmøyballet together, I'm talking to some acquaintances just before we're going to see it.
And we've had this interaction where I can feel that it was incredibly fast that you rushed down to a show where you were so excited.So I didn't have to explain that I actually liked it.And then you come to talk about that show.
And there's an unnamed dancer in the group who also says, yes, wasn't it amazing?And you're like, get out of here!I have someone else I need to talk to.I could feel it was you.When the dancer says it was amazing, you're like, what did I say?
I went home and said to my girlfriend, I don't think she understood it.And since then I've been thinking, we often disagree on what we think of a show.It's not because I think it's a new thing.But apparently something happened to me.
So now it's getting exciting.You were so passionate about that show, I think. Yes, but I could feel that too.I could feel that too.It wasn't because I thought, Lina hates it.No, not at all.I was just so sure that we should be up and running.
Yes, you closed it down a lot.
No, but it was also bright when I saw it. I saw it during the day, in gray weather.But I think the light, uninfected, I think it was beautiful.I just said, I think it was far.I think it ran in a circle.I can already feel it again.
It was hot in that way.I didn't sit and think, oh, I'm looking at the right place.
But do you think so?I can already feel it now when we're talking about it again.What is it?Are you married to that show?What's going on?I don't know what's going on.Did you love it?Well, I just did.And I was disappointed.Over me?
No, that we didn't meet in this show.I had this... Oh, we're just going to... Oh, shit, what are we going to do when we're doing a podcast?We're just going to talk about how cool it is.
But no, since then I've just thought, oh, it's going to be exciting.
It's a good thing we haven't seen anything of both of them, so the good mood is growing.I've seen some pretty fantastic things.Odense and Aarhus have good things right now.It's like the season in Copenhagen, there are a few things in store.
I've also seen some things.But the big move comes first. Right now, when this podcast comes out in mid-September.
That's right.In July and August there have been a lot of festivals and a lot of dance shows, which now, as if the summer is over, therefore also those outdoor things and dance shows and stuff.And now we're getting started with... Now it opens.
It's high season now, right?Yes.
But at least we can say now, already now, that you can sign up for next year's August.
Because there is, among other things, the Cannes Ballet, which again this year I think was pretty nice, where there are four new works by new, young, more or less, not composers, but choreographers. which is combined into one evening performance.
And it's always really exciting to see the four different... I don't call them composers, but choreographers come up with them.It's because I want to go to the opera festival.
Which has a lot of musicians and composers.Exactly.Which is in the middle of August, in a two-week period, where you can go all over Copenhagen to the opera.Outside, indoors.
Yes, new places and new, progressive opera works, where it's not just... Big classics on the opera, the Royal Theatre.But I think that the opera festival is one of the most, if you can call it a stage, foresighted stages in Denmark.
And where you get to see, what can it be if we think of the opera of the future.That's where we have seen, among other things, Hjem and Loll.
And this year, The Undoing of Carmen, which got a bit of a demo version premiere last year, on the big main stage at Den Røde Plads. where it was a scrapped version, not a real performance, but as a finished work this year.
It was just insanely cool, both with new things, but also just pieces of the old work, Carmen, and in a way give a new perspective on it.It was really cool.
And then you can already see a cross in your calendar in two years, where the dance halls have their biennial opening, which has just run for the first time ever in their new premises in Carlsberg.
I'll tell you about it, because the dance halls have been in Carlsberg for a while, closed,
Well, they've had houses in Carlsbad Bøen, yes, once, and still had offices, and sometimes back and forth, they've been a bit of a residency, they've been on Edison with Bertin Hansen, and been out in different houses, but now, after quite a few years, they've got their own house.
They were going to tear down that old house, wasn't that the case? I think the Carlsberg buildings were renovated.All the old, big buildings were demolished.Now they've got a house in the new Carlsberg city.On the most Copenhagen street, I'd say.
They're in the middle, and the brewery is open on one side.On the other side, there's Hardberry and Sanchez.So you can just... Everything that's being written about from abroad, you can get right there on the street.I thought it was really cool.
I was in to see three different performances, four different performances that week.And I've probably seen some choreographers and some dancers that I'm going to follow again.
I was, among other things, in to see Iceland Dance Company's version of Romeo and Juliet, which was a completely insane deconstruction of a work you only know to death.That was the one with all the blood?
If you follow me on Instagram, there are a few pictures from there.It was incredibly fun.And a group of dancers who almost played every performance.Wildly physical, wildly animalistic.It was insanely cool.
And I don't know if it's a tour performance, I don't know if they're playing it again, but I know they've played it since corona. Do you dare to let me see it?I don't know about that, but then you can look at the beautiful pictures they make.
I think it looks insanely beautiful, really beautiful.It was crazy beautiful, it was crazy fun, it was also crazy and mind-blowing to see Romeo and Juliet in that way.
Is that piano for foreign works or Danish works, or what is the idea with it?
Their own description of it is that they are international stars and new Danish talents or national talents.For example, I saw Lara Ostrand's Driver, which is a completely new work.
She is a rather newly trained choreographer, and this is the first part of two works she is going to do.
It took place in a car with two other audiences, and then you sat in there and were in a crazy state for 25 minutes, where something just happened around the car. So it's a mix of Danish and international choreographers.
Mette Ingevartsen, who has a huge Danish and international name, also had her tribute show Rush, which was pretty exciting.Especially if you know her works, and I don't know her works that well.I don't know her either.
It was a performance lecture-feeling, as someone who doesn't know the works. And then I've talked to someone who knows the works, who has seen all her works, which are retold in this performance, which was just the wildest.
It was just like seeing it once.I think it was really cool to be there.They've got three new rooms.
A gigantic room at the top, which is some of the old, dilapidated bric-a-brie, which has been turned into a huge room, and a black box on the smaller stage. I really think you should check it out.I was very overwhelmed.
And they have a lot of different things on the show, right?
Yes, and among other things, if it's not already sold out, because there are so few people, then Lara Ostrand's number two of the Driver series knows I'm going to play something like that in October.Cool.I think you should go and see their show.
I think it's really exciting what they're going to do.Nice.
Good with some dance music.
Exactly.I mean, it's not only in August.
No, we've become dance lovers.
I have a crush on this.I hope that the royal ballet can keep up, because I think it was a boring season for the last season.
You can look forward to or be excited that there will soon be a new ballet chief, who may not put a new direction for the ballet, but that will be wildly exciting. It's going to be so exciting!It's going to be so exciting!
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It's going to be so exciting!It's going to be so exciting! So you could hope that there will be, and not for Nicolai Hyppe, but you could hope that there will be someone who has an artistic ambition and can drive it that far.
We will keep an eye on that, of course.And we will also keep an eye on whether this season will be a little more exciting for them.They are going to play a folk song again, which premieres in a bit.I was in to see it a few years ago.
It is insanely lovely.It's a lovely show.I saw it last. It's Astrid Graup Elbow who's going to dance it, among other things.And Holly Dodger.So they're some good dancers, and it's like a real... I had my mother-in-law with me when I saw it.Exactly.
And it was just nice, and you understand it, even if you don't know ballet.And it's pretty nice that the broodwaltz, which we all know and love, the broodwaltz you dance at the end of a wedding night, it comes from that ballet.
That's pretty cool. It's pretty cool, and it's a really nice piece.It's just not the kind of piece you're like... Fuck, man.It's a dance ballet.But yeah, it's a lovely piece.
But should you recommend it to someone who might think, I actually went to see some ballet, but I don't know it that well, what should I watch?Go in and watch it, you have the chance now.Now, Clara, shall we talk a little about Odense and Aarhus?
I'm really excited to hear how it went. A couple of years ago, at The Royal Theatre, they did Cyrano de Bacharach with Olaf Johansson as Cyrano.
And maybe you remember, it was the performance that had a gigantic nose on all the posters, because the character has a violent nose in the story.I remember it as a really good acting. A bit of a boring show.A bit of a long show.A bit of a grey show.
And now they're doing it on Odense Theatre with Benjamin Kitter in the lead role.It has a bit of the same... Expression when you see it on pictures.That gloomy, dark, gray... Step on a wall.Step on a wall, the gray, gray walls.
You wrote to me and sent me a picture and was like, is it a re-release?Excuse me, is it the same?And it's not at all.It's easier without you making a movie.Exactly.And it was Maya Ravn who made it.In Copenhagen.In Copenhagen, yes.
So I'm really excited to hear if it could make it this time.I remember we were like, what?The last time. It's something completely different this time.
Yes.You seemed excited.Well, it's actually also... I mean, it's a business that takes three hours, right?I'm not bored at any point in time.Okay, cool.And you know how long I have to live.And you have to take breaks.
Well, I have to take breaks, and that was also kept, but the first act also took an hour and 40 minutes. which was an hour and 45 minutes, I think.You were like, shouldn't you take a break or what?
In short, Cyrano is this ugly man with a very big nose.He falls in love with Roxanne, who is also his cousin.Weird.But she is very much in love with Christian.Cyrano is also a soldier, a commander.
Kristian gets hired by his company, blah blah blah Roxanne wants to hook up with Kristian He has to write a poem, because that's what she learns from being a good mother Show me what you can write And Kristian is like, fuck, I can't write
I don't know how to do it.So Cyrano makes an agreement with him to allow him to be close to Roxanne.And because he thinks, maybe I can win her over if she falls in love with me and not Christian Smukke.
So Cyrano writes all the letters from Christian to Roxanne.They are sent to war, Christian and Cyrano.And while they are there, they write a lot of letters to Roxanne, who is deadly in love.And what's going to happen, I'm not going to reveal.
Then things happen.It gets really exciting. But it's about war and love and poetry and poetry, right?Some will die for sure.Some will die for sure, yes.It was Niels Brunsø's translation you did for The King's Line.
He has translated all of Shakespeare's works.I think he's an excellent translator.I also think that the translation was a bit tree-like.I don't think all that love for the words, which is a big part of C&O, was shed through.
In Odense, they play a re-production made by a Brit called Martin Krimp, which was made in 2019 with James McAvoy.
You know who he is when you see his face in the main role, where it was a very scrappy, very barred, and it is a very poetry-slammified edition.
So there's a new way of playing with the words, with the diction and battle in the words, which they also do in Siano.And when I saw the performance in Odense, I thought, I can imagine that this has worked really well in English.
The lyrics work well in Hamilton.When you hear it, you think, are you serious?A rap musical?And then you hear it and think, okay, a rap musical, cool.Because they actually calibrate it.So I'm always thinking, I think it's been cool in England.
There is something in the translation, I can feel, not quite successful in a way.I think the translation is a bit like, we should have it to rhyme somewhere.
And then there's that love for the words, and that whole... You know, that linguistic delicacy.It's a bit lost.Yeah, wasn't that great?
But do you understand what I mean?I understand what you mean, yes.
There can be something really well written.
Just like, again, if Hamilton were to translate into Danish, he wouldn't be able to do that.
No.And here there are just some rhymes sometimes where I think... Is it caused by the 80s?Is it a time machine you've been left behind?Because there is something like, for example, who is just strong tobacco?Cyrano de Bergerac.
And it's such a soldier battle cry, but it's still like, strong tobacco wins.Was that the best thing you had in your head?
Well, that's what you say.
And then it clearly shows. It is Niels Brunse who has translated this.Yes, okay.Something gives meaning.Yes, something gives meaning when you get to know.And again, I think Niels Brunse is an outstanding translator.He is also an elderly gentleman.
This is a very explosive work.When you see pictures from the British, you feel that it has been cool. Yes, I've seen some pictures where they had some army clothes on.
You feel there has been a coolness about it.And maybe there was a need for someone who understands that poetry slam a little better.Who can make it just as young and fresh as it is.
I can imagine how that must have felt And when people who don't normally do poetry slams and rap don't want to be in that discipline, then it's far from good So the actors who sometimes had to go up to the microphone that was on stage and rather do a rap poetry slam with some of the lyrics Then sometimes when they had to do it on the rhythm
You're great at making it play as natural text, which is great, because I think their delivery, many other times, was really good.Cecilie Gerber is so damn good at delivering verses, without you thinking, hold up, you're standing in a row.
And the same goes for Benjamin Kitter.Many of them are, by the way.Mathias Bølund too.He doesn't have the heaviest rows, because that's up to his character, Christian.He's not the most poetic in the world.
So there were some things in it that took the top of the excitement.And besides that with the lyrics, I think the acting was so mixed, that I can't really apologize for that.He's a good Benjamin Kitter.Fuck, he's good.Yes, he always is.
No, he's not good, of course.This is one of the best things I've ever seen him do.And I've never seen him be good in much.They played Moon.
Last season, where he just had a little role, but I couldn't take my eyes off of him, because he had some tics he had put into his character.He was so cool, that character.And the same he just again here.
He has such a way of being in his character, so you just ... I understand all the nuances of the role you play.I understand what he's saying now.He has such a good grasp of the words.He can really deliver the words, so you think ...
Yeah, I think he was one of those people who got a little dizzy because he was so good with words.He's got a bite to it.He's so good.Does he have a nose?No, and it's cool.It's really cool.
At first I thought, Benjamin Gitter is too handsome to be a sireno compared to how ugly the lyrics describe him.But I was actually like, but it's nice that he doesn't have a nose.It's always a little confusing.
It filled a lot in the cognitive sense.
And I like the idea that the nose is more of a symbol for a person who is a bit outside, and that others can quickly hate or point fingers at.I like that a lot.And he played it so well that you believed that he had some kind of insane character.
And then there's Shilegaba. Fucking good.I haven't seen her in anything yet.No, she's also going to play in Next to Normal Club.I know, she's going to play Diane.She's going to play the main character.Diana.Sorry.Sorry.
I'm looking forward to seeing her in it, because she's one, she sings completely blindingly well, and then she's just a really good actress, and I really think she can prove this in such a heavy text as Cianoio is.
You had a really cool kick, Roxanne, from all those men's counterattacks.Mathias Bølund is good at playing a boy scout.He was really good at this as well, as Christian. Do you think you should go to Odense and see it?Yes, I think you should.
When you look at it apart from the holes the show has, I'm not bored at all.It's a great opportunity to actually see a classic, to understand it and be entertained, because it's also beautifully solved.
I would have liked to see more of the board compared to Le Orneu. – when it's a play about words and the power of words.But it wasn't easy to translate it, so Nicolai Faber might have seen it right.And then they made it up with visual blur.
Did the scenography evolve into something wild and delicious, or was it dark?
It's black and white, and the young poets write on the walls with chalk. The tide can go down, so almost half of the second act takes place in war, where there's almost a shelter where you imagine they're in a house.
It also revolves around the times, because they both say we're in the 16th century, and then they have, I'm sure you know, rifles when they're at war.
So there are some things there, but in a way it meant that it would sail around in time with the text as well. But there are some absurdly beautiful scenes in it, where I actually cried.
Not that it happens often, but... You know, in a show like this, the whole seduction scene, where Christian seduces Roxanne, and she has to stand there with her eyes closed, and then speaks, says something to him, was so beautiful.
It was so good, and the three of them acted so well together.So alone from that scene, it's like... It was so good. We have to go on to Aarhus.We have to get on the train again.I'm going to make it shorter in Aarhus.I was so excited.
I can't wait to see Martin Grims actually.I was super curious about the text.Because it was like, oh, there's something to translate to Danish when it's Poetry Slam.
It may be a challenge to keep an eye on his works in England, so maybe.We hope that it will be put up on Mødengade.
Well, I'm in Aarhus ready.They're playing three shows right now.That's the cool thing about Aarhus, they often run three at once.And often you can actually see all three in two days.Two on one day.I've only seen two.
They play out there, on the small stage.Then they play Bloodbath God on a scale.And on the big stage they play Faith, Hope and Love, which is Bjarno Rødder's national flower, or Bill August's film Faith, Hope and Love.
What would you like to hear first?I would like to start with Blood, Sweat & Tears.Where there was an audience that thought there was someone screaming a lot.That's what I expect from this show, that there is someone who is going to scream.
I have just found out that I know this show really well.At least the work that builds on this show. Because I've seen the movie, which is called Carnage.But it's based on the theater text.Yes, exactly.But I've seen that movie four or five times.
You've seen it two or three times.I was quite obsessed with it.
And I remember, before I knew it was a theater production, that it seemed like an intensely written drama, that has been shot on a stage, where you couldn't do all kinds of scenes, because it takes place in an apartment.
And you're almost trapped inside, and it's terrible to be there. I'm really looking forward to seeing it, I can feel it now.I'm going to see it in a month.What was your experience, what did you experience?
Well, I was wondering, why do I know this story?And that's because it's Carnage, which I've also seen.A long, long time ago, it's from what?Yes. Roman Polanski.Roman Polanski, exactly.I think I saw him in the studio.
But there is something about these room games, where someone should have left the room within the first minute, no one can do it in two hours.And it's that kind of room game.You get completely frustrated initially.
In short, it's about two parents who meet, because their two boys have become estranged.One of them has hit the other with a stick.One mother thinks her son's face is stained with water.He has hit a tooth and got a nail in his lip.
And that's where it starts.And it starts so polite and stiff, as if you were doing something like... We would of course like to, and what can we do?They are so proper, and slowly the facades crackle.
And it's actually incredible that you can sit and watch it for an hour and 20 minutes. But it's just so crazy how it develops and they fall apart as humans.
It's like looking at a traffic light or something.You're like, I have to go now, but I can't.I have to see where it ends.There's always an excuse for them to stay a little longer.And you're like, no, get out of here now.
I also remember it as if they're always on their way to a solution, or they're always on their way to, fine, let's go.But there's always something like, no, now we have to go too.
Yes, or someone who just says something in a set, or something like that.
Or someone who throws up an incredible amount, as the actors do.And it's four of the first... No, three of the first up in the house, and then Frank Thiel, who I've brought in, who is one of the men.
Then there's Jakob Madsen-Kvoldt, who is the other one, a tall business guy.He really plays the role convincingly, I mean, shut up, he's a pain in the ass.That's what they're all like.
And then there's Marie Mersener, who is married to Jakob Madsen-Kvoldt in the play. I can imagine them all being really annoying.But I feel like she's the epicenter of annoying people.And then it's about her getting everyone to...
They are annoying in the beginning.He's annoying and he's a business father.The one who whines and pleads with his mother is also annoying.But Nanna Bødgrads character is that one.Your son has wanked mine.Let's just use the right words.
All the time you're like... You want to... You get angry.And they do too. And it ends with someone screaming in frustration.It was an incredibly interesting piece, because I was amazed at why I didn't get bored.
Because on paper it sounded stupid to see a screenplay happen in an hour and 20 minutes.But it was really good.They played well.I wasn't on the moon over it, but it was cool and frustrating.And claustrophobic.I love that.
But I felt like I was sitting in a room where there was a laughing competition.Who can make the most insane laugh?You were there with all the young people.There were also some old people, but also grown-up people.
There was a woman behind me who had an absurd laugh, which was very loud, and at one point there was no other laugh.She thought everything Jakob Vassen Kolsgaard did was really funny.She's probably a fan.I have to promise.
And then it was as if a man sat down in the first row, who at one point thought, no, she said that I'm not allowed to sit alone with that violent laugh. And then he rolled.
It's frustrating.I don't get it.I'm really looking forward to seeing it.I'm looking forward to seeing it, because I feel like I need to talk to someone about it.Yes, I understand.And then you can go in and see Carnage.It's a really good movie.
I've seen it a lot of times.I recommend it.You can go and see it.It's playing on a scale from October 9th to October 9th.It's a good time now. Well, then I have to hear about True Hope and Love.A classic?Yes, at least in the movies.
Don't you think it's a classic?Yes, because when I thought classic, I was in the Siano world.Oh, in that way.
New classic.Yes, 80s classic.
It's a book and a movie, and now also theater.
Yes, Aarhus Theater has made a new performance out of the movie and the book.
A couple of years ago, we saw Elisa Kragerup's version of The Chronicle of Innocence.The film is based on the same time as Love, Faith and Romance.It's set in the 60s.Yes, that's what I meant.
We saw it at the Royal Theatre, on a small stage, in a small, tight room. And I have a feeling that it's a bit the same as I'm about to watch.Maybe at least in the mood.But it's on the big stage.
Yes, because I want to say both yes and no.Because what I think made The Chronicle of Innocence extremely good, was that it was so intimate.And you got so close to the characters, because you really fell in love with all those who played along.
Yes, you were their classmate. Yeah, you could just feel the love.We were like, I'm also in love with Morten right now.I'm also in love with Cecilia Gadeborg.You were totally with all those characters.
And it has the same effect the way you're with them.But it's also on a big stage, as you say.So you don't have that intimate, I'm falling in love with you.But they've been really good at getting that... Teenage codeness.You know, the apology table.
You start taking the first wavy steps into adulthood.They've hit that incredibly well, I think.Tell us what it's about.Yes, it's about... What's it called?Bjørn.Bjørn Røy wrote a Bjørn trilogy, where you follow this guy called Bjørn.
At this point Bjørnsen is in his teenage years, and it's in the early 60's where the term teenage starts to take root.He has a good friend called Erik, who comes from a different world than him.
He has a mental illness and a fucked up dad, so he has to be an adult. from a very early age, or a completely new person, who is Emil Print.And then there's Emil Busch Jensen, who plays Bjørn, who is more of a class-flirty guy.
He's supposed to be dating the upper-class girl, the class-flirty girl, the popular girl, Kirsten, but falls in love with Anna, who comes to see one of his concerts. They play in a band called The Beatles.
And then there's Anna in a red dress, and it's about Bjørn and Anna's relationship, and Erik as a friend, and Kirsten as a childhood drama. Bjørn's coming-of-age story.And it's just so beautifully solved.
It's a music performance, so it's also with music from that time, and everyone is extremely musical on stage.So everyone on stage is singing, it's not just the band?No, everyone is singing and playing, but it's not like, oh, here comes a song.
It's like, well, Amanda Frisch-Jørgensen just goes down and sings. It's not that she sings it, but you know.She sings it with one of those amazing tricks.It's very nostalgic, like being sucked into a time loop, which is quite nice.
It really makes you long for a time without the screen.Where you went to the ball.Yes, and you have danced and saw a ball play. So I think it's a really entertaining, beautiful and sweet show.They play really well.
I think Emil Prenter is absolutely mind-blowingly good at this show.He always plays well.
And now I've seen him play Hawcock's Skurk in Clockwork Orange, and then Kixxed's West Boy, both in Chicago, where he played Mr. Cellophane, and now where he plays Eric in this one. And his Erik portrait is just so incredibly touching.
Erik saves his mother from that father, and you just can't help it. You were almost about to cry now.I just thought it was so moving, he played it so well.He is so tense, insecure and is completely held back by something.
The fact that he has to stand up for his father, his youth, coming of age thing, is what it's all about with his father.I thought he was good.It was a great experience with him. Even though the rest of the cast was really good.
And you know, Emilie Busch-Jensen, also very charming and a good Bjørn, with the clackstein.A really good Anna.Gives total meaning to me.You were just with those characters.Clara Phillips, who plays Kirsten, was insanely cute.It just played.
I think the game is really entertaining, I understand it so well.It's totally worth a visit.It's a really cool show.I want my mom to see it, she watched the movie when she was a kid.
Really good.I'm excited to see what she says.
I haven't seen the movie since I was in school, but I don't have a huge relationship with the show.
I have a relationship with Zappa.I know a lot about it.I can remember it, but I don't have a relationship with Zappa.But when you watch it, you think, I've seen that movie.Because it's like all 80s movies.
Yes, and it's also a feeling to see something like Niels Malmgros or something like that.And the Bjarne Røyder universe is just pretty cool.
He's just so good, and there's something eternal in this apology.It was really good, I think.I'm looking forward to seeing it.I'm going to see it, and it's playing until 4th of October, so those who are listening can also see it.
Shall we talk about some news?
Welcome!Welcome!I'm just thinking about the Copenhagen shows.Can we do another podcast?We've seen a lot more.We're going to see Saturday Night Fever tonight.
And next week we have a crazy week.We're going to see Wicked in the Netherlands, we're going to see Anastasia, we're going to Valmans. Damn, I'll make a mess of it next time.
Are you crazy, Bjørn?It's going to be a lot of fun.A bit of news for the last one, because it's also here.Clara, they're playing Romeo and Juliet as a jukebox musical at One and Only.
God, is it a jukebox musical?I haven't noticed.I wrote it for you.No, is it a jukebox musical?I wrote it.Did you say it's a jukebox musical?No, I didn't.Do you know what I thought you wrote?I wrote it, it's going to be like the new Moulin Rouge.
Do you know what I thought you wrote?No.What I've read is that you wrote... They want to make a Romeo and Juliet Christmas carol.No.I didn't write that.No.It's an autocorrected version.Okay, how strange.I find that strange.
Yes.But I think it will be like the new Moulin Rouge, with new music, where you thought, not Katy Perry in Moulin Rouge.
Yes, but it will be, and it will be Rihanna, probably not Katy Perry, but something like that again.Now we sound negative.Yes.
And we have to make sure that this show is a success.It's with Søren Torbergård and Sara Victoria Berger in the lead roles.I think that's great.
I haven't seen the actors.I'm looking forward to seeing and hearing them.It's the poster.It's the poster.I'm sick of the poster.
They have photoshopped tattoos on the poor people.
And they're on the chest, and it's supposed to look like a croc.I got the feeling that they're trying to make Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet as musicals.
But make it more... What's it called?Punk?Yeah, something like that.Set in something modern.You know, Romeo and Juliet, Baz Luhrmann, are the finest, most beautiful Claire Danes.Yeah, yeah, yeah.And then there's Romeo, who's an arcade boy.
Do you understand what I mean?
They were guns instead of swords.
Yeah, yeah.I know exactly what you mean, and I think that's what they do.Just like with Moulin Rouge, and also Baz Luhrmann.They're going to play it in a long time.In many years.Are they 27?Yes.
We have to go through some other classics first.We have to see Strictly Ballroom, Bass Lumen.Oh yes, we also have to see Carniplex and The Musical.And we have to see the one scene.Yes, they are far out in the future.
Yes, it's exciting, but then Romeo and Juliet can also get so far in the future that you don't think that everyone has just played what they are doing.
Exactly, but it can be re-recorded in 2026-2027.Mulan Rose was an art from Broadway and West End.Romeo and Juliet.I know they've made Romeo and Juliet.
No, it's new, because it's Susanne Bier and Thomas Jensen who are writing the script.It's the Macedonian team, without Burhan Geerlis. Because it's jukebox music.
So it's Suzanne Bjergsen sitting at home listening to some music and thinking, I'm going to forget that song.
Into my music.Exciting.And in other news, the two reviews have also made their new team public.Yes, now we have become a review podcast too.We have become a review girl too.What's it called?The Tivoli review has got a new front-person leader.
Lisbeth Dahl has stopped after this season. After many years on the pen, both on the TV-review and the Circus-review.Good for her.Now it's Linda P. But has Linda P. not been in the Circus-review?I think she was there a few years ago.
Something tells me that. She has set up a team.And I was surprised by that team.Me too.There's one less than usual.They've gone in a slightly different direction than Sigurdsrevyen, which we'll talk about in a moment.
But the team is Thomas Warberg, Kurt Rauhn, Søs Elin.Then I think, who should be Mette Frederiksen?They can't make a Mette Frederiksen sketch.But it will probably be Søs Elin.
I'm a bit disappointed sometimes.Do we have a Mette?Do we have a Lars? I don't have any of them.Oh, Linda P. and Thomas Vareberg can both play Lars.Linda P. could be Alain Lisbeth, you know.
Yes, I understand what you mean.In the Circus Review, they cast Magnus Havgaard to be the new young, fresh Pust.Yes, he's wonderful.I'm really looking forward to that.Then it's Merete Mærkedal again.It's Bodil Jørgensen.She's back.Yes, yes, yes.
They were good when they were together.
They were really good when they were together.And who is it now, ladies?
It's Mads Knarborg, who was also there that year.
It's the year we saw it and thought, hold up, something happened with the review here, where they kind of got it turned around and gave it a little twist, something woke and we want to do something new.
Then it was Knarborg, Brodi Ljørensen, what was her name, Merete Mærkedal, because they made this bath hotel sketch.
And Niels Olsen.He'll be back next year.So it's a bit old, but Magnus Havgaard is on the side.
But it's a great team.We've seen them work incredibly well.I'm looking forward to Tivoli Revue.I really like Social In.I'm looking forward to seeing what it's going to be.
It's just fun to see the two side by side.One is all black in a jacket.High hat.High hat, beard and ballet.The other is lovely in some Badoo.
It's a revue.A glamour revue.We have it on full theme.I'm looking forward to it.I was thinking, where are the young people?But it could be that Linda P and Varvara also have something that can still attract the audience.
Maybe they should attract a new audience.I would like to see Linda P. I think there's a stand-up audience that 100% should see this.
More than what they can do on the field with their team.
You have to know that it's a cool team.It's exciting, Clara.It's early summer.
There's a long time until then.But the team has come out.
Are there more news we have to wait for, Clara? We can of course say that we have released two special episodes in collaboration with Copenhagen Phil, which will make a new concert performance called From the New World, Melodrama No.
And we have asked them to make a couple of podcast episodes where we talk about instructor Christian Lolleke in one, and composer Mathias Vestergaard in the other.So if you want to be a little smarter about what kind of work it is,
I think you should go and listen to the two special episodes, if nothing else you become much smarter on Dvorak's 9th symphony.It sounds a bit snarky when you say it, but it's not.It's insanely cool music.It's pretty exciting.
It's mega exciting, and Mathias West is also insanely good at telling about it.
You can also listen to them if you're just a fan of Mathias and want to hear some of the music he has composed.Because it's also nice.Yes, absolutely.Both episodes are already ready, so you can just go and listen to them.
And we are so happy that you have listened to this episode of Den Fjerde Vægt.Remember that you can always tell others that we are also here as a podcast and not just as an Instagram page.
So help us spread the word, share, that you listen to us, we will be so happy to see what you do.
And remember that we always want to talk about stage art, so you can always comment on the posts we post on our Instagram and on the things we say here in the podcast.Oh, where does a lot come from in a moment?
There's so many people commenting.There's a storm coming now!A shitstorm.It's going to be so mean!No, I just mean, there's a lot of content coming now.You have to look forward to it.
You have to hold on tight to the end screen.It's going to be... We have to share our thoughts about everything we see.We look forward to it.Now it's going to work, Clara.Yes, I'm ready.Thank you for listening.
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