SILENCE | Norway

Taus .
Taus is the one who is lying.
He who is silent seems to consent.

The greatest secret should be the best kept. But inside, something cries out. Something that has been locked away for far too long. When it finally breaks, it bursts forth: monsters, burning birds, howls, anger – a cacophony of voices. The facade is crumbling. The cracks are deep.

So they stand there.
Looking at each other.
Looking into each other.
Are each other.

Is it you I've been looking for?

IN Taus The audience is taken into an inner work in motion. In search of a way to live on, a space opens up where what was once locked away is allowed to come out. One is taken into the innermost recesses, where light is shed on that which cannot be put into words, but which nevertheless exists.

Taus is a vision of what cannot be said, but which nevertheless shapes a person. Of what lives on in the body and of what can emerge when something is allowed to happen.

Contributor:

Idea, text and co-creative performer: Brigitte Blomlie

Direction and choreography: Silje Onstad Hålien

Dramaturgy, text and lighting design: Yasin Gyltepe

Composer and performer: Thomas Eriksson

Co-creative performers: Silje Risdal Liahagen, Sondre Meisfjord

Costume and Scenography: Martin Skogli and Marita Solhjell Ølander

Artistic producer: Rannveig Øygardslia

Produced by Mamelukk with Førdefestivalen , Riksscenen and Sprang as co-producers,

Supported by: Directorate of Culture, Fritt Ord, Valdres Museums