“HUNGER” TINKERTING - Norway
Technique: Mixed For audiences over: M/12 Time: 55 min. Language: Withou words
Concept, direction, set design, puppets design and construction: Pickled Image – Dik Downey, Vicky Andrews Puppeteers: Per Arne Løset, Gisle Hass Concept devising and script: Dik Downey, Vicky Andrews, Per Arne Løset Dramaturgical consultant: Preben Faye-Schjøll Makers: Max Humphries, Joris Hol, Jan Erik Skarby Costumes: Amanda Hambleton Composer: Simon Preston Technician: Joris Hol Sound design: Nathan Ng Lighting design: Jan Erik Skarby
This is the story of “Hunger”, set in a city that you cannot leave before it’s put a mark on you. A proud man struggles to break through as a writer. He is in a constant battle between his environment, the salivating monster inside him and the grinding, satanic mills of progress. “Hunger” is a dark, grotesque and provocative performance of human survival and man’s need to express himself. Written by Knut Hamsun in 1890, “Hunger” is widely regarded as one of the first to describe the interior of the human mind, while Hamsun himself is considered one of the founders of the modern novel. In 1920 he won the Nobel Prize for his novel “Growth of the Soil”. However, Hamsun is a highly controversial figure, vilified for his opinions and acts during the Second World War (He gave his Nobel Prize Medal to Goebbels and wrote an obituary for Adolf Hitler), he is also considered one of the greatest Norwegian authors of all time, influencing writers such as Thomas Mann, Arthur Schnitzler, Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
Ciclo: FIMFA Lx11 – International Festival of Puppetry and Animated Forms