Tales from a Sea Journey/Hav: UK tour

We have arrived in the UK for the tour of our new show Tales from a Sea Journey. We flew in from Norway, Prague and Denmark but it was Elke our Production who had the longest journey. She left her home in Berlin in the early hours of Friday morning, flew to Oslo and collected the set before catching a ferry to Copenhagen, driving across Denmark to Esbjerg (stopping en-route to have cake with Margit who is also in the show) then catching a ferry to Harwich and finally, 48 hours later, arrived in Cambridge.

Cambridge is where we kick start our tour, dropping anchor at The Junction where we have our UK base. We will have the UK premiere here and we have spent time re-rehearsing parts of the show so that it is completely understandable for an English speaking audience.

The set for this show is huge and exciting. We have enormous projections at the back of the stage as well as ladders, rope, postcards, maps, creatures from the deep and cocktails!

On Thursday 17 March we take the show to Lakeside Theatre in Colchester and on Friday 18 March we play at The Northwall Arts Centre in Oxford. A whistle-stop tour before bringing the show back to the UK for more performances later on in the year.

Mexico

We arrived to Mexico City late at night, and and were picked up by some very nice people from the festival. There was some small confusion in the customs about the hockey and ski bags thet the set is packed in. Why do you come to mexico with winter sports equipment? But after pushing a red button we got thru.(!!??) When you push the red button a red or green light will shine - its the most random control I have ever seen.

We went up to the TV tower to get a better overview. I do not know if it helped. Mexico City has 22 million people and it’s enormous.

The venue

Every venue has got its own little altar to Santa Maria de Guadeloupe. She is supposed to look after the venue and the people working there. It looks like you still need a fire extinguisher !

Sunday was a day off so we went to in Teotihuacán. Its unbelievable that this is enormous site is man made.

Written by Kjell Moberg, Associate Director NIE

Festival Vol.I

There we go. The last day before the start of Vol.I of the festival. Excitement!

NRK will come today and film and interview everyone involved in Hav / TSJ for broadcasting tomorrow :)

Because of a ski accident one of our actors will be unable to play some of the performances that were originally planned for 13-22 January. The NIE anniversary celebrations will for that reason be divided into Vol.I and Vol.II.

Vol.I looks like this:
13.1 Hav / Tales from a Sea Journey - world premiere
14.1 Seminar
15.1 Hav / Tales from a Sea Journey + VETEX opening party

16.1 My Life with The dogs
17.1 Workshop
18.1 Workshop
19.1 The Song of Lost Treasures
20.1 No program
21.1 Hav / Tales from a Sea Journey
22.1 Hav / Tales from a Sea Journey

Want to see any of these shows and/or attend the fantastic VETEX concert? Buy your tickets at billettservice.no:http://www.billettservice.no/search.php?tm_link=tm_homeA_header_search&language=no&keyword=nie&x=0&y=0

The performances Berlin 1961, Everything Falls Apart, My Long Journey Home, Past Half Remembered and The End of Everything Ever will be postponed until later on in 2011. We hope to update you soon with more information on when NIE Festival Vol.II will take place.