Itsi Bitsi

Iben Nagel Rasmussen tells of the years preceding her arrival at Odin Teatret, years of hitchhiking round the world, of music and poetry, of political radicalism and drugs. It is her story and that of Eik Skaløe (the first beat poet to sing in Danish, who committed suicide in India in '68) and of their generation.

 

Some fragments of the actress's previous performances are interwoven, not as quotations and examples, but as revealing metaphors: the mute Kattrin from Brecht's Ashes, the wandering shaman from Come! And the Day will be Ours, the Trickster from Talabot.

 

On stage: Iben Nagel Rasmussen, Jan Ferslev and Kai Bredholt

Text by Iben Nagel Rasmussen
Text montage and directing: Eugenio Barba
Musical arrangements: Jan Ferslev and Kai Bredholt

 

Dansk: ITSI BITSI - Ovenstående tekst på dansk
Espanol: ITSI BITSI - El texto anterior en español

Italiano: ITSI BITSI - Il testo di cui sopra in italiano

 

Odin Teatret thanks Klaus Tams for helping with the masks, Tom Nagel Rasmussen for the song: Herunder aften.

A Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium-Teatro Potlach production with the support of Teaterrådet.

 

 

Technical Information

 

English: Technical Information

 

 

Articles and Reviews

 

In Danish and Swedish:

Berlingske Tidende (17-05-2008, Denmark) >>

Tro på teatret - Religion i det 21. årh., Københavns Universitet, 2006 (Denmark) >>

Teater Tidningen 1/94 (Sweden) >>

 

In Italian:

Corriere della Sera, Milano (21-09-1997) >>

L'Eco di Bergamo (04-09-1992) >>

 

 

 

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Danish version. Itsi Bitsi is also performed in English, Italian and Spanish.