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Sebastian wants the group of friends to talk about how they really are. It is destined to go to hell.
It’s the 17th of May (national day of Norway), and they eat hot dogs, drink Bulmers and snuff is put under their lips with the bunadstakk (traditional dress) on. Antitheatre’s self-written play Det går bra/It goes well follows this group of friends through a whole year, until next 17th of May.
The play is improvised by the seven actors, and several of them use their own first and sur names for the characters they play. On the premiere, fans all the way from Korea visited to watch Skam-actor Tarjei Sandvik Moe on stage. If they understood the dialogue, then Det går bra would have without a doubt ” delivered the goods”, because there are plenty of Skam references.
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Sandvik Moe starts the play by reading hate messages he received after the TV success. The other actors also confess their own experiences. Why am I not more engaged? Why do they all look like drawings of urban people from a property prospect? Why am I only thinking about myself? What they have in common is that they are equally as depressed as privileged. In a country where the amount of antidepressants increase in line with the oil fund, Antitheatre is definitely onto something.
Det går bra is structured like a play from Lars Norén. Confrontations within the group of friends build up during meaningless parties and long afterparties. Mikkel Gundelacks alcoholism is like a pain in the ass for the others, while Paal Herman Ims is tired of Sebastian Warhom trying to figure out the truth. Unlike Norén, there is a lack of lust over the beer cans. The only thing that’s at risk in Det går bra is the friendship.
Antitheatre goes all in, in order to make us love these characters, and the play can carry itself. And for a long period of time that is enough. Especially Mathilde Skarpsno Jakobsen shows a dramatic journey in her character as big sister. First she is the uncomplicated girl, cool and witty. But when her little brother (Tarjei Sandvik Moe) begins partying with the group, the dilemmas grow larger than herself. Sebastian takes him with him on increasingly larger weed highs, and all of a sudden they are dealing over the table tennis table in their family’s basement. Mathilde Skarpsno Jakobsen prevents these scenes from becoming pedagogic TV drama from 1993.
Several of the other supporting characters seem unfinished. It’s really not the actors’ fault, but more that they never become a part of the story. They lack motivation, og me as a spectator end up wondering: Does the depressed Jenny really have a crush on Sebastian? Why is Paal Herman angry? What makes Mikkel drink?
I think a lot of this could have been resolved if the boundaries of the story were more clear. If the whole plot was placed within the same house, it would have been easier to follow the plot’s progress. Now, the plot takes detours through dreams, confusing small scenes and afterparties in other places of the city. A pinch more of Norén, and a bit of apple stealing from Ibsen, and the confessions from today’s youth would have been greater than themselves.
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The theater is right next to Elvebakken. In this area that’s kind of been hijacked by creative people. A lot of interesting stuff going on there. Art, dance, theater etc.
We all met up at the entrance and then a woman came and took us around the building, and down a narrow staircase that went deep into a basement. My friend almost couldn’t go down there because she’s claustrophobic.
It was a fairly small black room with chairs all along the walls sort of like a circle/square with a long black table in the middle, and that was the scene. And a few props and boxes around the room.
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The room was jammed packed so some people had to sit sort of in the back. I did not envy them and I’m glad we came there early. A few chairs amongst the audience had cards that said “reserved” on them. I had a vague feeling these chairs had to do with the show so I made sure not to sit next to them. Two fans who looked Chinese or Korean sat next to the reserved chair who was closest to me and my friend. And this was the chair Tarjei used during the show to sit on. Like what in the hell. What are the odds. The Chinese girl acted like she was about to faint every time he came and sat next to her.
And then all the lights went out and a guy came in with a flashlight. He walked around the table flashing people with it as he went by, saying “Går det bra?” (Are you okay-like ‘how are you guys doing’) He kept repeating it so we thought we were supposed to reply, but then he sort of became manic and started running around faster and faster and talking louder and louder until he was screaming on top of his lungs. With the flashlight going it was actually quite scary and I had to hide behind my scarf, lol.
And that sort of set the tone for the entire show. You didn’t quite know whether to laugh or cry. It really reminded me of Festen by Lars Von Trier. Funny but dark and uncomfortable at the same time. Very Scandinavian social realism i you know what I mean. Anyways.
And then the actors came into the room one by one, which was still pitch black. And they introduced themselves and talked about themselves. Kind of revealing inner thoughts that you should keep to yourself, like “I’m Tina and I spend most of my days sleeping, I don’t read the paper, I don’t vote, I hate it when my friends talk about their problems etc etc.”
When Tarjei suddenly ran onstage in a really beautiful Bunad (our national costume) I was so surprised that I wasn’t listening to a word he was saying to be honest. And my friend kept hitting me and I was scared to even look at him. I just remember him holding up a phone and reading messages off of it. Negative stuff. Can’t remember what. But it was directed at him.
And then the next scene is a party where they’re all supposed to be drunk and one guy stands to his feet and holds a speech and everything it gets really awkward. In the beginning I was sort
of thinking what the hell have I gotten myself into, I don’t want to be part of this awkwardness. But then the play just sucked you in and got better and better.
Tarjei plays the little brother of one of the girls. Her name was Moe as well? So maybe it’s his half sister, idk? She was really tall and skinny. And funny.
I can’t remember all the scenes chronologically. Only bits and pieces, so I hope it’s ok that I just write it like that, randomly.
But the play is about a group of friends who fall out. It starts out with the one guy, the main I guess, who says that they should all try in the next year and be more open and honest with each other. And then the show shows different scenes over the next year and how that completely breaks the friendships apart and it all goes to hell. The play ends with the same party (17th of may party like in the beginning. 17th of may is our independence day where everyone wears their nice clothes and drinks all day/ too much and it often ends in a catastrophe)
And all the scenes are very dark and awkward. And very physical for the actors. Like they run around and use their bodies. So even if you wouldn’t understand you’d get an idea of what it was about and enjoy watching it I think?
They go to sit in between the audience all throughout the play.
They all sit on the reserved chairs when the confession time begins. It’s pitch black and they each hold a flashlight which they light at one another when they speak.
Tarjei talks about how at the bus the other morning on the way to school he saw a really cute girl. And he has this thing where he stares at people, anyone, he can’t look away and it’s really embarrassing. So he was sitting there staring at her. And then he noticed that she was carrying some heavy bags and he wanted to go up and help her, but then he thought that he’d be that douche actor who goes up to cute girls in the early morning trying to hit on them. But then she’d noticed him staring at her and he got scared that she’d noticed him noticing the heavy bags. And now he wasn’t only the douche actor who stared at girls on the bus in the morning, but he was also the douche actor from SKAM who stared at girls and didn’t help them when they clearly needed help. And then he had anxieties about it for the rest of the day or something. I can’t remember exactly.
And then all of them shared awkward stuff about themselves. Some of it funny. Like intimate stiff. One girl talked about going to the gynecologist. And then one guy alluded to being abused by his grandfather and when he finished talking Tarjei blurted out “I’ve been raped.”
And not in a ha ha way at all. The room basically held their breath because the atmosphere was so coloured by what was being said. And then the whole thing ended in a sort of nightmare and I almost pissed myself and wanted to run away.
There’s also a scene between his sister and him where she’s really upset about how much weed he smokes and she almost starts crying.
And there’s a scene where he takes drugs and drinks vodka and dances like a maniac. Like flash dance x 10000. In the end he’s basically laying in a bridge on the floor convulsing.
And then the other guys roll around the floor embracing and touching and saying how much they love each other.
He also wears russ overalls, gets in a physical fight with one of the older men and is pushed half ways across the room. And it’s a proper push too because he made a grunting sound like all the air went out of him.
It’s just really raw and gritty.
Oh, and he sings too!! And it’s good!
A girl who’s supposed to be really correct and annoying is talking over everyone and suddenly he grabs a microphone and starts singing lol. Everyone was laughing. Tarjei definitely got a lot of laughs and gasps. His delivery is just really good and powerful.
At the end he gives a sort of rambling monologue where he says something about skam again, but I can’t remember exactly what it was. But just how he felt bad about not knowing enough about politics, not knowing what to vote, about feeling selfish because he grew up in Norway as a young white boy and privileges etc etc. He sounded really insightful and anxious and worried.
And there was sooooo much more, but this is all I can remember right now.
His shoulders are hunched over a bit when he stands, but he moves with confidence and isn’t awkward at all. And nothing he does looks dumb, if you know what I mean. He’s a pleasure to watch onstage. He outshone everyone, even though he’s got the least speaking parts. (But still quite a lot, but not as much as the others) It was weird but I felt like I was watching a version of Isak up there. Only in a completely different setting.
I’m in love/the end.
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Confession/nightmare sequence
So I can’t remember what the confession/nightmare sequence came after. I think it was sort of in the middle of the last 17th of May dinners. But I could be wrong…
Anyways, suddenly all the actors all ran to their chairs that stood scattered amongst the audience. So they were sitting right next to us and it felt almost like being part of the play. During this sequence they also talked directly to the audience, asking questions. All lights were off except from the flashlights the actors were holding.
It started with the blond guy, Paal, getting up and walking around the room saying how sick he was of people complaining and feeding off of negativity etc. He kept shoving his flashlight in people’s faces, asking direct questions.
After he sat down, the other actors started sharing their inner thoughts and feelings. The kind of inner stuff that you never really share with anyone. I can’t remember exactly what they were confessing. Some of it was funny some of it more awkward/disturbing. The first thing Tarjei talked about was the bus incident that I talked about yesterday.
When it was Paal’s turn again he said with this sinister facial expression that he used to know exactly what would happen in grandad’s office when no one was around, but he still went along with it, and when he was finished he got to read comic books. And that he liked it when his granddad fucked him. Or something like that. Then the dark haired girl said in a frantic voice something like “Great! Then we can bond because I’ve also been raped!” And I think she mentioned then about feeling suicidal? She was acting kind of frantic and hysterical, like smiling and just being weird. And then Tarjei blurted out “I’ve also been raped”.
I was just in a bit of a shock over what he’d just said and I can’t exactly remember what happened but they were suddenly back to the 17th of May dinner again. And it all turned into a nightmare that Seb couldn’t get out of.
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Translation of Det Går Bra Pamphlet:
Dear audience! I don’t want to write too much about what this play is about, in fear of spoiling it. So I’d rather write about the process and our point of reference. The idea of this show was to make theater about our generation. Vi started out by opening up to each other and lay the cards on the table. We found out what the play was going to be through improvising with the actors, and them taking point of reference within themselves, and writing.
In my experience there is almost no theater made for my generation (HE’S SO RIGHT ABOUT THIS) and we have tried to do something about that. It’s been really interesting to dive down into “ourselves” as characters and it’s been very satisfactory to see that the result encompasses bits of all of us. It’s been a pleasure to work with the actors who come from such diverse backgrounds linked up to Norwegian theater and culture, and I’m proud that Antiteateret has become a meeting place for young artists.
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DET GAR BRA” GRUSOMHETENS TEATER APRIL 6ТН 2017 20:30
First a little bit about the play
Even Torgan, the director of the play, has said this:
"The general idea of this performance was to make a play about our generation. The project started with us opening up to each other and lay the cards on the table. Through improvisations with the actors, where they use themselves as a starting point, we set the framework for what kind of theater performance this was going to be.
It has been interesting to dive into in "ourselves" as characters, and it is incredibly satisfying to see that the result contains pieces of all of us."
So... the characters they play are based on their own lives, and it is really hard to know what is real and what is fiction if you don't know the actors personally.
The actors have written their own lines, just as they did in the previous play, "What would Jesus do". In the programme, the characters are presented with their own names, and they introduce themselves with their real names in the play. Everyone except for the girl that plays Tarjei’s older sister She introduces herself as Mathilde Skarpsno Moe. Her real name is Mathilde Jakobsen Skarpsno.
In the following, I am going to focus mostly on Tarjei’s parts, otherwise this is going to get way too long. The play was 1 hr 15 min long. It will be long enough as it is.
The audience sits in a circle around the "stage", which basically is just two big tables put together. The room is quite dark most of the time. The actors sometimes use flashlights as the only light source.
It is pitch dark when a door slams (scaring the heck out of us) and Sebastian, the main character, walks into the room and starts walking around the table asking in a normal speaking voice at first, "Går det bra?" (Is it going well/are you okay?) The audience answers, "Ja (yes)." He continues to ask the question, each time a bit louder, and the audience also answers louder each time. He ends up running around the table yelling the question in the end.
Then one by one, the characters come from different places (one climbs down a ladder while talking about herself). Tarjei comes down a staircase and introduces himself, "Му name is Tarjei Sandvik Мое". He then starts reading messages (all from girls) off his phone. He reads them with an angry tone of voice while he walks around the room:
Marit, June 12th: "Do you know what, Tarjei? You behave like you are the center of the universe. You have zero respect for other people. You should change your attitude. You have been a douche lately."
Siri, January 7th: "You really have to start treating people better. Maybe you are not aware of it, but you are...treating people badly."
Tiril, February 9th: "What the fuck? Do you have Chlamydia???"
Henriette, March 30th: "This shows how fucking self-absorbed you are. You fucking dickhead. You are the most selfish fucker I’ve ever met. I really don’t like you; you are a piece of shit.”
Then they all sit down around the table. It is May 17th; the Norwegian constitution day. It's a party. It is the first time Tarjei is with this group of friends. They are all wearing the clothes they are wearing in the poster.
They are drinking; most of them quite drunk, some dance, and then Sebastian disrupts the party by announcing he wants to give a speech. The speech starts out lightly, he is talking about their friendship and how they usually enjoy themselves together. Then it gets more serious and in short he says they always talk about meaningless bullshit and drink when they are together. He wants them to talk about how they really are doing; talk about their problems things are bad, not when everything is resolved and not a problem anymore. He says they can help each other; he wants to be there for them not just on the good days, but on the bad days as well. Share sober and serious bullshit.
Some of them then share personal stuff; others are clearly uncomfortable and start doing other things. They call Tarjei "småtten" (the little one) and ask him how it feels to celebrate his first May 17th with them. He says it is cool, that they are cool.
One of the girls wants to go outside and smoke a cigarette and asks if anyone wants to come with. Tarjei gets up and says he'll come. The girl asks Mathilde if it is okay that her little brother comes with her, and Mathilde says yes.
Music starts playing really loudly, they all go to change clothes and come back out, the guys wearing shorts and the girls in bikinis or summer dresses. They are sunbathing.
Tarjei asks the others, "Why rubber??” They tell him he doesn’t want to be a dad at age 17. But he doesn’t see the point when all girls are on the pill anyway? One girl tells him he doesn't want to get genital warts. That is hell for a year and it can also come back.
He goes on to say that if he has to wear a condom it is going to take up to a minute to get it out of the plastic and get it on, and he is not exactly a world champion in keeping an erection for a long time. (The audience laughs)
Sebastian is smoking weed the whole time, and while the others are talking, he shares some with Tarjei, who makes sure his sister doesn’t see it.
Then there is a scene at Sebastian’s place where all the guys are dancing like they are completely insane. When the music stops they are all out of breath, and all of them, except Tarjei, who sits down at the table, roll around on the floor all tangled up together, and Tarjei just looks at them and asks (after some time) what they are doing. Sebastian tells him that it is their "ball of love". Sebastian tells the other guys he loves them, but they don't say it back, even though he repeats it.
He then just tells them kind of abruptly to leave, and Tarjei says there is no night bus to his place at this time, so Sebastian says he can sleep at his place, but the others have to leave. They don't understand why, but in the end he admits that it is because he opened his heart to them, but got nothing back. It made him feel crappy. They apologize, but he isn't having it and they start arguing. Sebastian is in a really bad mood, and Tarjei ends up leaving with the other guys.
In the next scene, Tarjei and Sebastian are playing ping pong while Mathilde is watching. They are in the basement of Tarjei’s and Mathilde’s family home. Suddenly Sebastian tells Tarjei to transfer 300 NOK to his account because he is buying a bag of weed for the two of them this weekend. Mathilde gets upset they are talking about this when their dad is upstairs; he can hear them. And besides, she is really uncomfortable with them talking about this when she is there and that they also sometimes smoke when she is there. She doesn't know how to feel and deal with the fact that Tarjei is smoking weed now. She feels responsible for him. Tarjei doesn’t say anything, but Sebastian tells her it is good she shared her feelings about this and that he and Tarjei doesn’t have to smoke weed to be together. Sebastian leaves and Mathilde wants to play with Tarjei, but he just leaves, clearly upset with her.
Next they are at Jenny's place (but all of them are sitting on chairs in the audience) and Sebastian again asks them how’s it going? And this starts off a confession scene, and Tarjei’s first out and asks if it’s okay to share whatever, and they all say yes. So he tells them he has this habit of staring at people on the bus, and that once he has started staring, he can't take his eyes off that person. He once saw this insanely pretty girl carrying some really heavy bags, and he wanted to walk up to her and ask her if she needed help carrying them home. But then he started thinking that she most likely would think that he thinks he can charm anyone, just because he is in Skam, and that the only reason he wanted to help her, was because he wanted to fuck her and not really help her with the bags. So the only way he could convince her he didn’t just want to just fuck her is to also help people that he doesn’t think are pretty with their bags, but he is never going to do that. So he just stood there thinking about that, and then she got off the bus and disappeared, and he was thinking: “Tarjei, you are such an asshole, you’re so stupid." The others reassures him he is not and says it was good that he shared it. And he says it was good just to say it out loud.
Paal Herman then tells the others that his grandfather died in the fall and that he and his grandfather had a relationship that was too close, and it is clear that he was sexually abused by his grandfather when he was younger.
Mathilde says that it is so good that they can share whatever with each other, and that she also was raped, just by someone she didn’t know, and it is so nice that they told each other this, because now they can bond because of it, which they couldn’t before, because they didn’t know.
And then Tarjei says, "Mathilde, me too. How did we not know?" And Mathilde says, "Now there are three of us."
Then a year has passed and it is May 17th again and they are having another party. Tarjei is now russ and he is wearing a red russedress. (Google it if you don't know what it is).
The others want him to talk about the celebration and he says he doesn’t really remember much. He has been on a russebuss, his crew is crazy and it's basically been blood, sweat, tears and gonorrhea. It's been wild. His sister says he’s going to take it easy from now on, get some sleep and get the alcohol out of his body . And he says he’s going to take it easy now, will not drink for a while, just smoke weed. She doesn’t seem happy with that answer.
Sebastian is not happy either He doesn’t think this year has brought them any closer and that they are not really sharing more things with each other. Paal Herman is fed up with Sebastian's nagging, and the others also agree that they don’t have to talk about problems every time they are together. Sebastian gets really mad and breaks a lot of glasses and leaves in a fury.
They cut to another confession scene in the middle of this party, for some reason.
Tarjei stands up and says that he thinks it is awkward to demonstrate. This fall marks the first time he is permitted to vote in the parliamentary election, but he has no idea what to vote, so he probably will end up not voting. He feels a bit too young to care about politics. He does care, but if he sees a conservative politician, he thinks, "Wow, you are smart!" but then a socialist party politician says something else, and he is like, "Yes, well said". But they are politicians, they are nerds, of course they can convince him, but he is afraid of being branded as a conservative or a socialist, and that is not what’s important to him. He doesn’t have anyone his own age to talk to about politics because it is too serious. And when adults say that it’s important in a democracy that we all vote, then it all feels even more serious. But there are people who have experienced shitty things, unfair things and have more experience than he has, and those are the ones that should vote. Because he has only lived an isolated, glorious life on the West End of Oslo, it hasn’t made a difference what kind of government we’ve had If he was going to vote for what was best for him, he would vote for a party that would give an incredible amount of money to culture, but is that what is best for Norway? He doesn't fucking know. All he thinks is that there are a lot of other voices that deserves to be heard more than his, that his vote really shouldn't matter.
Then they are back at the party and are talking about Sebastian again, and Tarjei says Paal Herman was too tough on him.
Mikkel's new girlfriend Tine comes. She is really drunk, and the mood is lifted because of her. The first thing she says to Tarjei is, "Oh my god, you are so incredibly good in Skam! I loved your season. Awesome TV-series!” Tarjei thanks her, half laughing. This is actually the first time the audience laughs heartily.
Tarjei says, “Mikkel doesn’t even like Skam” To which Mikkel replies, “What? I do like Skam. I just think you overact." And the audience laughs again. Tine asks the others what they do, and they all answer that they are actors. Tarjei says, “I try to overact ”（ (Laughs again)
Because they start to talk about how small our problems are compared to people living in Syria, and things get a bit heavy, they change the subject and Tarjei starts playing the "Penetrator song" and sings the first few lines on top of the music, until he gets to the "tar oss til rette mellom dine lår" line (we do what we want between your thighs), one of the other guys quickly changes the song.
It all ends with the music playing really loudly and them chatting with each other.
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Sebastian wants the group of friends to talk about how they really are. It is destined to go to hell.
It’s the 17th of May (national day of Norway), and they eat hot dogs, drink Bulmers and snuff is put under their lips with the bunadstakk (traditional dress) on. Antitheatre’s self-written play Det går bra/It goes well follows this group of friends through a whole year, until next 17th of May.
The play is improvised by the seven actors, and several of them use their own first and sur names for the characters they play. On the premiere, fans all the way from Korea visited to watch Skam-actor Tarjei Sandvik Moe on stage. If they understood the dialogue, then Det går bra would have without a doubt ” delivered the goods”, because there are plenty of Skam references.
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Sandvik Moe starts the play by reading hate messages he received after the TV success. The other actors also confess their own experiences. Why am I not more engaged? Why do they all look like drawings of urban people from a property prospect? Why am I only thinking about myself? What they have in common is that they are equally as depressed as privileged. In a country where the amount of antidepressants increase in line with the oil fund, Antitheatre is definitely onto something.
Det går bra is structured like a play from Lars Norén. Confrontations within the group of friends build up during meaningless parties and long afterparties. Mikkel Gundelacks alcoholism is like a pain in the ass for the others, while Paal Herman Ims is tired of Sebastian Warhom trying to figure out the truth. Unlike Norén, there is a lack of lust over the beer cans. The only thing that’s at risk in Det går bra is the friendship.
Antitheatre goes all in, in order to make us love these characters, and the play can carry itself. And for a long period of time that is enough. Especially Mathilde Skarpsno Jakobsen shows a dramatic journey in her character as big sister. First she is the uncomplicated girl, cool and witty. But when her little brother (Tarjei Sandvik Moe) begins partying with the group, the dilemmas grow larger than herself. Sebastian takes him with him on increasingly larger weed highs, and all of a sudden they are dealing over the table tennis table in their family’s basement. Mathilde Skarpsno Jakobsen prevents these scenes from becoming pedagogic TV drama from 1993.
Several of the other supporting characters seem unfinished. It’s really not the actors’ fault, but more that they never become a part of the story. They lack motivation, og me as a spectator end up wondering: Does the depressed Jenny really have a crush on Sebastian? Why is Paal Herman angry? What makes Mikkel drink?
I think a lot of this could have been resolved if the boundaries of the story were more clear. If the whole plot was placed within the same house, it would have been easier to follow the plot’s progress. Now, the plot takes detours through dreams, confusing small scenes and afterparties in other places of the city. A pinch more of Norén, and a bit of apple stealing from Ibsen, and the confessions from today’s youth would have been greater than themselves.
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The theater is right next to Elvebakken. In this area that’s kind of been hijacked by creative people. A lot of interesting stuff going on there. Art, dance, theater etc.
We all met up at the entrance and then a woman came and took us around the building, and down a narrow staircase that went deep into a basement. My friend almost couldn’t go down there because she’s claustrophobic.
It was a fairly small black room with chairs all along the walls sort of like a circle/square with a long black table in the middle, and that was the scene. And a few props and boxes around the room.
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The room was jammed packed so some people had to sit sort of in the back. I did not envy them and I’m glad we came there early. A few chairs amongst the audience had cards that said “reserved” on them. I had a vague feeling these chairs had to do with the show so I made sure not to sit next to them. Two fans who looked Chinese or Korean sat next to the reserved chair who was closest to me and my friend. And this was the chair Tarjei used during the show to sit on. Like what in the hell. What are the odds. The Chinese girl acted like she was about to faint every time he came and sat next to her.
And then all the lights went out and a guy came in with a flashlight. He walked around the table flashing people with it as he went by, saying “Går det bra?” (Are you okay-like ‘how are you guys doing’) He kept repeating it so we thought we were supposed to reply, but then he sort of became manic and started running around faster and faster and talking louder and louder until he was screaming on top of his lungs. With the flashlight going it was actually quite scary and I had to hide behind my scarf, lol.
And that sort of set the tone for the entire show. You didn’t quite know whether to laugh or cry. It really reminded me of Festen by Lars Von Trier. Funny but dark and uncomfortable at the same time. Very Scandinavian social realism i you know what I mean. Anyways.
And then the actors came into the room one by one, which was still pitch black. And they introduced themselves and talked about themselves. Kind of revealing inner thoughts that you should keep to yourself, like “I’m Tina and I spend most of my days sleeping, I don’t read the paper, I don’t vote, I hate it when my friends talk about their problems etc etc.”
When Tarjei suddenly ran onstage in a really beautiful Bunad (our national costume) I was so surprised that I wasn’t listening to a word he was saying to be honest. And my friend kept hitting me and I was scared to even look at him. I just remember him holding up a phone and reading messages off of it. Negative stuff. Can’t remember what. But it was directed at him.
And then the next scene is a party where they’re all supposed to be drunk and one guy stands to his feet and holds a speech and everything it gets really awkward. In the beginning I was sort
of thinking what the hell have I gotten myself into, I don’t want to be part of this awkwardness. But then the play just sucked you in and got better and better.
Tarjei plays the little brother of one of the girls. Her name was Moe as well? So maybe it’s his half sister, idk? She was really tall and skinny. And funny.
I can’t remember all the scenes chronologically. Only bits and pieces, so I hope it’s ok that I just write it like that, randomly.
But the play is about a group of friends who fall out. It starts out with the one guy, the main I guess, who says that they should all try in the next year and be more open and honest with each other. And then the show shows different scenes over the next year and how that completely breaks the friendships apart and it all goes to hell. The play ends with the same party (17th of may party like in the beginning. 17th of may is our independence day where everyone wears their nice clothes and drinks all day/ too much and it often ends in a catastrophe)
And all the scenes are very dark and awkward. And very physical for the actors. Like they run around and use their bodies. So even if you wouldn’t understand you’d get an idea of what it was about and enjoy watching it I think?
They go to sit in between the audience all throughout the play.
They all sit on the reserved chairs when the confession time begins. It’s pitch black and they each hold a flashlight which they light at one another when they speak.
Tarjei talks about how at the bus the other morning on the way to school he saw a really cute girl. And he has this thing where he stares at people, anyone, he can’t look away and it’s really embarrassing. So he was sitting there staring at her. And then he noticed that she was carrying some heavy bags and he wanted to go up and help her, but then he thought that he’d be that douche actor who goes up to cute girls in the early morning trying to hit on them. But then she’d noticed him staring at her and he got scared that she’d noticed him noticing the heavy bags. And now he wasn’t only the douche actor who stared at girls on the bus in the morning, but he was also the douche actor from SKAM who stared at girls and didn’t help them when they clearly needed help. And then he had anxieties about it for the rest of the day or something. I can’t remember exactly.
And then all of them shared awkward stuff about themselves. Some of it funny. Like intimate stiff. One girl talked about going to the gynecologist. And then one guy alluded to being abused by his grandfather and when he finished talking Tarjei blurted out “I’ve been raped.”
And not in a ha ha way at all. The room basically held their breath because the atmosphere was so coloured by what was being said. And then the whole thing ended in a sort of nightmare and I almost pissed myself and wanted to run away.
There’s also a scene between his sister and him where she’s really upset about how much weed he smokes and she almost starts crying.
And there’s a scene where he takes drugs and drinks vodka and dances like a maniac. Like flash dance x 10000. In the end he’s basically laying in a bridge on the floor convulsing.
And then the other guys roll around the floor embracing and touching and saying how much they love each other.
He also wears russ overalls, gets in a physical fight with one of the older men and is pushed half ways across the room. And it’s a proper push too because he made a grunting sound like all the air went out of him.
It’s just really raw and gritty.
Oh, and he sings too!! And it’s good!
A girl who’s supposed to be really correct and annoying is talking over everyone and suddenly he grabs a microphone and starts singing lol. Everyone was laughing. Tarjei definitely got a lot of laughs and gasps. His delivery is just really good and powerful.
At the end he gives a sort of rambling monologue where he says something about skam again, but I can’t remember exactly what it was. But just how he felt bad about not knowing enough about politics, not knowing what to vote, about feeling selfish because he grew up in Norway as a young white boy and privileges etc etc. He sounded really insightful and anxious and worried.
And there was sooooo much more, but this is all I can remember right now.
His shoulders are hunched over a bit when he stands, but he moves with confidence and isn’t awkward at all. And nothing he does looks dumb, if you know what I mean. He’s a pleasure to watch onstage. He outshone everyone, even though he’s got the least speaking parts. (But still quite a lot, but not as much as the others) It was weird but I felt like I was watching a version of Isak up there. Only in a completely different setting.
I’m in love/the end.
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Confession/nightmare sequence
So I can’t remember what the confession/nightmare sequence came after. I think it was sort of in the middle of the last 17th of May dinners. But I could be wrong…
Anyways, suddenly all the actors all ran to their chairs that stood scattered amongst the audience. So they were sitting right next to us and it felt almost like being part of the play. During this sequence they also talked directly to the audience, asking questions. All lights were off except from the flashlights the actors were holding.
It started with the blond guy, Paal, getting up and walking around the room saying how sick he was of people complaining and feeding off of negativity etc. He kept shoving his flashlight in people’s faces, asking direct questions.
After he sat down, the other actors started sharing their inner thoughts and feelings. The kind of inner stuff that you never really share with anyone. I can’t remember exactly what they were confessing. Some of it was funny some of it more awkward/disturbing. The first thing Tarjei talked about was the bus incident that I talked about yesterday.
When it was Paal’s turn again he said with this sinister facial expression that he used to know exactly what would happen in grandad’s office when no one was around, but he still went along with it, and when he was finished he got to read comic books. And that he liked it when his granddad fucked him. Or something like that. Then the dark haired girl said in a frantic voice something like “Great! Then we can bond because I’ve also been raped!” And I think she mentioned then about feeling suicidal? She was acting kind of frantic and hysterical, like smiling and just being weird. And then Tarjei blurted out “I’ve also been raped”.
I was just in a bit of a shock over what he’d just said and I can’t exactly remember what happened but they were suddenly back to the 17th of May dinner again. And it all turned into a nightmare that Seb couldn’t get out of.
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Translation of Det Går Bra Pamphlet:
Dear audience! I don’t want to write too much about what this play is about, in fear of spoiling it. So I’d rather write about the process and our point of reference. The idea of this show was to make theater about our generation. Vi started out by opening up to each other and lay the cards on the table. We found out what the play was going to be through improvising with the actors, and them taking point of reference within themselves, and writing.
In my experience there is almost no theater made for my generation (HE’S SO RIGHT ABOUT THIS) and we have tried to do something about that. It’s been really interesting to dive down into “ourselves” as characters and it’s been very satisfactory to see that the result encompasses bits of all of us. It’s been a pleasure to work with the actors who come from such diverse backgrounds linked up to Norwegian theater and culture, and I’m proud that Antiteateret has become a meeting place for young artists.
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Ещё одно, на этот раз толковое описание роли Тарьяя в спектакле:
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DET GAR BRA” GRUSOMHETENS TEATER APRIL 6ТН 2017 20:30
First a little bit about the play
Even Torgan, the director of the play, has said this:
"The general idea of this performance was to make a play about our generation. The project started with us opening up to each other and lay the cards on the table. Through improvisations with the actors, where they use themselves as a starting point, we set the framework for what kind of theater performance this was going to be.
It has been interesting to dive into in "ourselves" as characters, and it is incredibly satisfying to see that the result contains pieces of all of us."
So... the characters they play are based on their own lives, and it is really hard to know what is real and what is fiction if you don't know the actors personally.
The actors have written their own lines, just as they did in the previous play, "What would Jesus do". In the programme, the characters are presented with their own names, and they introduce themselves with their real names in the play. Everyone except for the girl that plays Tarjei’s older sister She introduces herself as Mathilde Skarpsno Moe. Her real name is Mathilde Jakobsen Skarpsno.
In the following, I am going to focus mostly on Tarjei’s parts, otherwise this is going to get way too long. The play was 1 hr 15 min long. It will be long enough as it is.
The audience sits in a circle around the "stage", which basically is just two big tables put together. The room is quite dark most of the time. The actors sometimes use flashlights as the only light source.
It is pitch dark when a door slams (scaring the heck out of us) and Sebastian, the main character, walks into the room and starts walking around the table asking in a normal speaking voice at first, "Går det bra?" (Is it going well/are you okay?) The audience answers, "Ja (yes)." He continues to ask the question, each time a bit louder, and the audience also answers louder each time. He ends up running around the table yelling the question in the end.
Then one by one, the characters come from different places (one climbs down a ladder while talking about herself). Tarjei comes down a staircase and introduces himself, "Му name is Tarjei Sandvik Мое". He then starts reading messages (all from girls) off his phone. He reads them with an angry tone of voice while he walks around the room:
Marit, June 12th: "Do you know what, Tarjei? You behave like you are the center of the universe. You have zero respect for other people. You should change your attitude. You have been a douche lately."
Siri, January 7th: "You really have to start treating people better. Maybe you are not aware of it, but you are...treating people badly."
Tiril, February 9th: "What the fuck? Do you have Chlamydia???"
Henriette, March 30th: "This shows how fucking self-absorbed you are. You fucking dickhead. You are the most selfish fucker I’ve ever met. I really don’t like you; you are a piece of shit.”
Then they all sit down around the table. It is May 17th; the Norwegian constitution day. It's a party. It is the first time Tarjei is with this group of friends. They are all wearing the clothes they are wearing in the poster.
They are drinking; most of them quite drunk, some dance, and then Sebastian disrupts the party by announcing he wants to give a speech. The speech starts out lightly, he is talking about their friendship and how they usually enjoy themselves together. Then it gets more serious and in short he says they always talk about meaningless bullshit and drink when they are together. He wants them to talk about how they really are doing; talk about their problems things are bad, not when everything is resolved and not a problem anymore. He says they can help each other; he wants to be there for them not just on the good days, but on the bad days as well. Share sober and serious bullshit.
Some of them then share personal stuff; others are clearly uncomfortable and start doing other things. They call Tarjei "småtten" (the little one) and ask him how it feels to celebrate his first May 17th with them. He says it is cool, that they are cool.
One of the girls wants to go outside and smoke a cigarette and asks if anyone wants to come with. Tarjei gets up and says he'll come. The girl asks Mathilde if it is okay that her little brother comes with her, and Mathilde says yes.
Music starts playing really loudly, they all go to change clothes and come back out, the guys wearing shorts and the girls in bikinis or summer dresses. They are sunbathing.
Tarjei asks the others, "Why rubber??” They tell him he doesn’t want to be a dad at age 17. But he doesn’t see the point when all girls are on the pill anyway? One girl tells him he doesn't want to get genital warts. That is hell for a year and it can also come back.
He goes on to say that if he has to wear a condom it is going to take up to a minute to get it out of the plastic and get it on, and he is not exactly a world champion in keeping an erection for a long time. (The audience laughs)
Sebastian is smoking weed the whole time, and while the others are talking, he shares some with Tarjei, who makes sure his sister doesn’t see it.
Then there is a scene at Sebastian’s place where all the guys are dancing like they are completely insane. When the music stops they are all out of breath, and all of them, except Tarjei, who sits down at the table, roll around on the floor all tangled up together, and Tarjei just looks at them and asks (after some time) what they are doing. Sebastian tells him that it is their "ball of love". Sebastian tells the other guys he loves them, but they don't say it back, even though he repeats it.
He then just tells them kind of abruptly to leave, and Tarjei says there is no night bus to his place at this time, so Sebastian says he can sleep at his place, but the others have to leave. They don't understand why, but in the end he admits that it is because he opened his heart to them, but got nothing back. It made him feel crappy. They apologize, but he isn't having it and they start arguing. Sebastian is in a really bad mood, and Tarjei ends up leaving with the other guys.
In the next scene, Tarjei and Sebastian are playing ping pong while Mathilde is watching. They are in the basement of Tarjei’s and Mathilde’s family home. Suddenly Sebastian tells Tarjei to transfer 300 NOK to his account because he is buying a bag of weed for the two of them this weekend. Mathilde gets upset they are talking about this when their dad is upstairs; he can hear them. And besides, she is really uncomfortable with them talking about this when she is there and that they also sometimes smoke when she is there. She doesn't know how to feel and deal with the fact that Tarjei is smoking weed now. She feels responsible for him. Tarjei doesn’t say anything, but Sebastian tells her it is good she shared her feelings about this and that he and Tarjei doesn’t have to smoke weed to be together. Sebastian leaves and Mathilde wants to play with Tarjei, but he just leaves, clearly upset with her.
Next they are at Jenny's place (but all of them are sitting on chairs in the audience) and Sebastian again asks them how’s it going? And this starts off a confession scene, and Tarjei’s first out and asks if it’s okay to share whatever, and they all say yes. So he tells them he has this habit of staring at people on the bus, and that once he has started staring, he can't take his eyes off that person. He once saw this insanely pretty girl carrying some really heavy bags, and he wanted to walk up to her and ask her if she needed help carrying them home. But then he started thinking that she most likely would think that he thinks he can charm anyone, just because he is in Skam, and that the only reason he wanted to help her, was because he wanted to fuck her and not really help her with the bags. So the only way he could convince her he didn’t just want to just fuck her is to also help people that he doesn’t think are pretty with their bags, but he is never going to do that. So he just stood there thinking about that, and then she got off the bus and disappeared, and he was thinking: “Tarjei, you are such an asshole, you’re so stupid." The others reassures him he is not and says it was good that he shared it. And he says it was good just to say it out loud.
Paal Herman then tells the others that his grandfather died in the fall and that he and his grandfather had a relationship that was too close, and it is clear that he was sexually abused by his grandfather when he was younger.
Mathilde says that it is so good that they can share whatever with each other, and that she also was raped, just by someone she didn’t know, and it is so nice that they told each other this, because now they can bond because of it, which they couldn’t before, because they didn’t know.
And then Tarjei says, "Mathilde, me too. How did we not know?" And Mathilde says, "Now there are three of us."
Then a year has passed and it is May 17th again and they are having another party. Tarjei is now russ and he is wearing a red russedress. (Google it if you don't know what it is).
The others want him to talk about the celebration and he says he doesn’t really remember much. He has been on a russebuss, his crew is crazy and it's basically been blood, sweat, tears and gonorrhea. It's been wild. His sister says he’s going to take it easy from now on, get some sleep and get the alcohol out of his body . And he says he’s going to take it easy now, will not drink for a while, just smoke weed. She doesn’t seem happy with that answer.
Sebastian is not happy either He doesn’t think this year has brought them any closer and that they are not really sharing more things with each other. Paal Herman is fed up with Sebastian's nagging, and the others also agree that they don’t have to talk about problems every time they are together. Sebastian gets really mad and breaks a lot of glasses and leaves in a fury.
They cut to another confession scene in the middle of this party, for some reason.
Tarjei stands up and says that he thinks it is awkward to demonstrate. This fall marks the first time he is permitted to vote in the parliamentary election, but he has no idea what to vote, so he probably will end up not voting. He feels a bit too young to care about politics. He does care, but if he sees a conservative politician, he thinks, "Wow, you are smart!" but then a socialist party politician says something else, and he is like, "Yes, well said". But they are politicians, they are nerds, of course they can convince him, but he is afraid of being branded as a conservative or a socialist, and that is not what’s important to him. He doesn’t have anyone his own age to talk to about politics because it is too serious. And when adults say that it’s important in a democracy that we all vote, then it all feels even more serious. But there are people who have experienced shitty things, unfair things and have more experience than he has, and those are the ones that should vote. Because he has only lived an isolated, glorious life on the West End of Oslo, it hasn’t made a difference what kind of government we’ve had If he was going to vote for what was best for him, he would vote for a party that would give an incredible amount of money to culture, but is that what is best for Norway? He doesn't fucking know. All he thinks is that there are a lot of other voices that deserves to be heard more than his, that his vote really shouldn't matter.
Then they are back at the party and are talking about Sebastian again, and Tarjei says Paal Herman was too tough on him.
Mikkel's new girlfriend Tine comes. She is really drunk, and the mood is lifted because of her. The first thing she says to Tarjei is, "Oh my god, you are so incredibly good in Skam! I loved your season. Awesome TV-series!” Tarjei thanks her, half laughing. This is actually the first time the audience laughs heartily.
Tarjei says, “Mikkel doesn’t even like Skam” To which Mikkel replies, “What? I do like Skam. I just think you overact." And the audience laughs again. Tine asks the others what they do, and they all answer that they are actors. Tarjei says, “I try to overact ”（ (Laughs again)
Because they start to talk about how small our problems are compared to people living in Syria, and things get a bit heavy, they change the subject and Tarjei starts playing the "Penetrator song" and sings the first few lines on top of the music, until he gets to the "tar oss til rette mellom dine lår" line (we do what we want between your thighs), one of the other guys quickly changes the song.
It all ends with the music playing really loudly and them chatting with each other.
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