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The play "The Revenge of the Crystal" had it's premier in Junge Hunde festival in Kanonhallen København 2002 and was very well received by the public.

It's a fascinating duo for performer and a hypernaturalistic life-size puppet, which is exploring the core of theatrical illusion and the fenomenological framework of spacetime in search of a absolute ritualistic theatre. By using the aesthetics we try to seduce the public into the more subliminal genres.

The storyline is built on the myth of Pygmalion in Metamorphosis by Ovid, but is here rearranged as a tragedy, conducted by a minimalistic prose text. The text spoken in english is mounted in the soundscore. As in the ritualistic tragedy, we will here follow the death of at least one of the performers!

What is maybe more fascinating is the space for experience this play will leave with the audience. The puppet which is made from a hypernaturalistic mannequins head, which represents last years absolutely female western ideal, is of course a dead objeckt. But as soon as the public has realized the life of the puppet, they wont forget her tender breathing and the imposing of life, even as she is left by herself on stage, while the performer collects his deathmask for a highly ritualistic purpose.

The music is a new composition made by Peter Kyed, who is known for his score in the play "Salomé" conducted by the danish performance troupe Von Heiduck (Awarded with Mouson Turm Performance Award 1999 Frankfurt). You will find excerpts from Górecki and Carl Davis among the pieces of the complete soundscape wich is arranged with the prose text as well.

Svend E Kristensen is schooled in western performance tradition's mainly through his long collaboration with the the danish groups Exment (Peepshows) and Von Heiduck (Angest, Solo Schön; the Metalswine, Salomé, Extropia, Peepshow 3+4) and other works. This is his first soloperformance which is made after his studies with japanese puppet- and maskmaster Hoichi Okamoto and his Dondoro theatre, which we as well will continue our work with already in this Sept. where we have invited him to play on to occasions in Copenhagen and also performing a workshop which could be of your interests?.

For your information:

1. We are normally 2 or 3 persons on tour, including technicians and performer.
2. Sound equipment is minimalized to one cd player and a normal theatrical sound system with speakers on stage.
3. We normally work a great deal with the light (Light-design is made by Carsten Petersen, Kanonhallen Kbh.).
4. Video can be obtained from the middle of April 2002.
5. The play has a duration of 35 min.
6. Audience is set to a maximum of 200.
7. The play is from 12 years and up.
8. We normally play in a black box theatre. Normal hight for theatrical lights, stage size is around 10 times 10 meters. We have good experiences in playing in other environment.

- The "Revenge of the Crystal" is chosen to represent Denmark in ASEF's puppettheatre festival in Bangkok, July of this year which is among 25 countries from Asia and Europe.

The play is supported by Scandinavian-japan Sasakawa Foundation, Statens Teaterråd, Statens Kunstfond, Hindsgaul Mannequins, Dansk skuespiller forbund, T.T.T. International Performance Institute Kyoto

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CV Svend E Kristensen
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Review in Danish by Mikkel Starup
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Danish Text
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English Text
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Hoichi Okamoto international Life-Size Puppet Workshop
Music
Behind the door already
What is it
Deathmask
Before the face
Was given a dog
Disapears close to the mouth
Now is a chissel
Dolomite calcium
Other names inside the spittle

 

 

 

 


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