A DOLL'S HOUSE
A DOLL'S HOUSE
In English with Slovenian surtitles, 100 minutes
Wednesday, 25 Sep 2024┃14.00 & 20.30
Linhart Hall, Cankarjev dom
Target audience: 15+
Plexus Polaire (France, Norway)
Acclaimed Norwegian director Yngvild Aspeli returns to the LUTKE Festival this year with A Doll's House, based on Henrik Ibsen's text, to explore how the stories of the past intertwine with the present. The two performers, surrounded on stage by human-sized puppets, use them to bring the deepest human feelings, emotions and passions to life. Nora, this wife and mother who would prefer to leave everything behind, bangs her head against the invisible glass surface of her own existence.
This performance at the LUTKE Festival marks the Slovenian premiere of the production, which will star Maja Kunšič, Lutkovno gledališče Ljubljana's ensemble champion, as Nora (otherwise alternating with director Yngvild Aspeli).
Direction: Yngvild Aspeli, Paola Rizza┃Cast: Yngvild Aspeli/Maja Kunšič, Viktor Lukawski┃Music: Guro Skumsnes Moe┃Chorus: Oslo 14 Ensemble┃Puppet manufacturing: Yngvild Aspeli, Sébastien Puech, Carole Allemand, Pascale Blaison, Delphine Cerf, Romain Duverne┃Set design: François Gauthier-Lafaye┃Set manufacturing: Eclektik Sceno┃Light design: Vincent Loubière┃Costume design: Benjamin Moreau┃Sound design: Simon Masson┃Stage technology: Alix Weugue┃Dramaturgy: Pauline Thimonnier┃Choreography: Cécile Laloy┃Opening: 2023
Coproducers: Théâtre Dijon Bourgogne CDN, Les Gémeaux (scène nationale de Sceaux), le Bateau Feu (scène nationale de Dunkerque), Le Trident (scène nationale de Cherbourg), le Manège (scène nationale de Reims), Figurteatret i Nordland, Baerum Kulturhus, Nordland Teater, Mo i Rana, Teater Innlandet, Hamar, Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnette de Charleville-Mézières, Lutkovno gledališče Ljubljana
With support of Teatroskop, a program initiated by French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, French Ministry of Culture and Institut français Paris.
Norwegian Yngvild Aspeli graduated from the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris and the École Nationale des Arts Marionnettes de Charleville-Mézières (ESNAM). She works as an actress and puppeteer and makes masks and puppets for various theatres in France, Norway and England. In 2008, she founded the group Plexus Polaire, a strong team of co-creators who have been working together for several years. Her poetry combines images and words, sounds and gestures, fantasy and matter, and the central idea of her content is to penetrate and touch the most hidden human emotions. In this process, there is a sensual encounter between the animator and the puppet, but they are also particularly interested in questioning and portraying feelings on stage.