UTISETA
Music for stage, Det Norske Teatret (2022)
Utiseta is a dive into the primordial soup.
Three norns, two gnomes, a white snake and a bog body invites us into the swamp. Taking us on utiseta, a vision quest, to see what insights we might find. In the olden days we lived closer to nature, and we were a part of it. We could trust the signs in nature and insights we would get in interaction with nature. We were weaving stories, myths and new world views, rituals and parties, to get close to where meaning is created. Every culture holds traces of older cultures and mixtures of cultures, everything has its origin somewhere. We are related to the landscape and the different peoples that wandered in it through all times. We follow real and imagined roots through layers of time.
Director Lisa Lie works with the logic of dreams and other realities, and draws inspiration from the origin of theater, old rituals, mythology and philopsophy, as well as popular culture and absurd comedy. Her scenic pieces is created in close collaboration with the artistic team and the ensemble, in an attempt to contact what lies beneath the surface in the inner and outer landscapes we are surrounded by. This is a sort of psycho-archeological excavations, using both imagined and concrete experiences to weave images of what might have been and what is, perhaps grasping the contours of what is to come.
The cult phenomena of the year.
Klassekampen
What makes Lisa Lies Utiseta so good, is that the hysterical and the thoughtful gets to live side by side, although the piece draws more towards extacy than silence. (…) Although the piece is absurd, chaotic, musical and chomical, Utiseta builds on a solid and almost surprisingly good dramatic text.
Morgenbladet
The scenic highlight in Utiseta is the human sacrifice. Here old rites blends to a higher unity with music, theatre and symbolism. The environmental crisis and the exploitation of indigenous peoples lies directly beneath the surface. For who are we, really, without respect for the spirits - even more, for enyone else but for ourselves? Then we are only destructive.
Aftenposten
Utiseta at its best moves away from a classical compositon and becomes a place where the imagination runs wild, which makes it seer friendly, important and at times very funny!
Scenekunst
The Midgards Worm is only one of the many totally lovable creatures Lisa Lie, her artistic team and the actors have created in the insane stage performance Utiseta. When we tumble out from Det Norske Teatret, the spiritual creatures have seduced, lured, shocked, entertained and exhausted us through a crazy shamanistic seance for two and a half hours.
Shakespeare Tidsskrift
DIRECTOR Lisa Charlotte Badouin Lie
SCENOGRAPHY / COSTUMES Maja Nilsen
LIGHT DESIGN Kerstin Weimers
COMPOSER / SOUND DESIGN / LIVE MUSICIAN Ingvild Langgård
PERFORMERS Christian Ruud Callum, Kjersti Aas Stenby, Kenneth Homstad, Julie Moe Sandø, Vetle Bergan, Oddgeir Thune
EXTRAS Maja Roel, Lisa Lie
DRAMATURG Ingrid Weme Nilsen
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Ester Gjermundnes
VOCAL CONSULTANT Unni Løvlid
NORSE LANGUAGE CONSULTANT Julian Lysvik
POLE DANCE CONSULTANT Tina Cathrine Jahr Hagberg