The Chronic Life
Dedicated to Anna Politkovskaya and Natalia
Estemirova
Russian writers and human rights activists, murdered by
anonymous thugs in 2006
and 2009 for their opposition to the Chechnyan conflict.
CHARACTERS: a Black Madonna, the widow of a
Basque officer, a Chechnyan refugee, a Rumanian housewife, a Danish
lawyer, a rock musician from the Faroe Islands, a Colombian boy
searching for his father disappeared in Europe, an Italian street
violinist, two mercenaries.
The Chronic Life takes place in various European
countries in 2031, after the Third Civil War. Groups and
individuals converge, challenging each other over their diverging
dreams, disappointments and hopes. A boy from Latin America
arrives, seeking his father, who has inexplicably
disappeared. "Stop searching for your father" people tell him
while escorting him from door to door.
The boy is not saved by knowledge or innocence. Rather, a
newfound ignorance leads him to his door. All this takes
place to the bewilderment of all of us, who no longer believe the
unbelievable: that a single victim's life is beyond value, is worth
more than God.
Languages: Danish, Spanish, English,
Romanian, Chechen and Basque
Duration: approx.
70 min.
Actors: Kai Bredholt, Roberta Carreri, Jan
Ferslev, Elena Floris, Donald Kitt, Tage Larsen, Carolina Pizarro,
Fausto Pro, Iben Nagel Rasmussen, Julia Varley.
Text: Ursula Andkjær Olsen and Odin Teatret
Dramaturg: Thomas Bredsdorff
Literary advisor: Nando Taviani
Light
design: Odin Teatret
Light
advisor: Jesper Kongshaug
Scenic space: Odin Teatret
Scenic space advisors: Jan de Neergaard, Antonella
Diana
Music: Odin Teatret, traditional and modern
melodies
Costumes: Odin Teatret, Jan de Neergaard
Technical
director: Fausto Pro
Assistant
directors: Raúl Iaiza, Pierangelo Pompa, Ana Woolf
Dramaturgy and directing: Eugenio Barba
Above text in other languages:
Dansk: DET KRONISKE LIV -
Ovenstående tekst på dansk
Español: LA VIDA CRÓNICA
- El texto anterior en español
Français: LA VIE
CHRONIQUE - Le texte ci-dessus en français
Italiano : LA VITA
CRONICA - Il testo di cui sopra in italiano
First performance: Holstebro 12 September
2011
Production: Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium
(Holstebro), Teatro de La Abadía (Madrid),
The Grotowski Institute (Wroclaw)
Technical Information
English: TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Italiano: INFORMAZIONI
TECNICHE
Press - Articles & Reviews
in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish:
> Scenekunst.no,
d. 13. november 2015 (Norway)
> Klassekampen
d. 9. november 2015 (Norway)
> Århus
Stiftstidende - Kultur, d. 9. april 2014 (Denmark)
> Arbejderen
- Kultur, d. 28. september 2012 (Denmark)
> Politiken - Kultur, d. 21. september 2012 (Denmark)
> Frederiksborg Amts Avis, d. 20. september 2012
(Denmark)
>
Magasinet København, d. 19. september 2012 (Denmark)
> Norsk Shakespeare- og Teatertidsskrift 2-3 / 2012
(Denmark)
> Vårt Land,
d. 20. juni 2012 (Norway)
>
Klassekampen, d. 14. juni 2012 (Norway)
> Klassekampen, mandag d. 21. maj 2012 (Norway)
> Information,
søndag d. 2. oktober 2011 (Denmark)
> Holstebro
Dagblad, fredag d. 16. september 2011 (Denmark)
in English:
> Nikolett Németh: The Chronic Life, 2016
(Italy/Romania)
> Annelis Kuhlmann: Odin's Blind Eye, 2012 (Italy)
>
Eugenio Barba and The Cronic Life, 2012 (Romania)
> Constellation of Somnambulists, 2012 (Poland)
in French:
>
www.unfauteuilpourlorchestre.com (France)
in German:
> der Freitag, Kultur. 30 april 2014 (Germany)
> Badische Zeitung, Samstag 15 juni 2013 (Germany)
>
Schulteater, 12 - Rolle, 1. Quartal 2013 (Germany)
in Italian:
>
Milano - mentelocale.it, 22 ottobre 2014 (Italy)
>
ilgiornale.it - Teatro, 17 ottobre 2014 (Italy)
>
www.ilsole24ore.com, 16 ottobre 2014 (Italy)
> www.criticalminds.it, 15 ottobre 2014
(Italy)
>
Milano - repubblica.it, 14 ottobre 2014 (Italy)
> L'Unità, martedì 19 febbraio 2013 (Italy)
> FuturaTV.it, Giovedì 10 novembre 2011 (Italy)
> il Paese
nuovo, martedì 1 novembre 2011 (Italy)
> la Repubblica,
domenica 9 ottobre 2011 (Italy)
> il manifesto,
domenica 9 ottobre 2011 (Italy)
> Corriere
della Sera, domenica 9 ottobre 2011 (Italy)
>
l'Unità, sabato 8 ottobre 2011 (Italy)
> Corierre
di Bologna, giovedì 6 ottobre 2011 (Italy)
>
Atti & Sipari, ottobre 2011 (Italy)
in Spanish:
> EL
ESPECTADOR, Sábado, 21 de marzo de 2015
> REVISTA PRIMER ACTO Cuadernos de investigación Teatral Nª 342
1/2012 (Spain)
>
Conjunto 162 - Revista de teatro latinoamericano
> ARTEZ - Revista de las Artes Escénicas, n°181 - mayo
2012 (Spain)
> ARTEZ -
Revista de las artes escénicas, febrero 2012 (Spain)
> Revista el Apuntador, 1 de diciembre 2011 (Ecuador)
> Revista Ñ, Clarin 25 de novembre 2011
(Argentina)
> Revista Hamlet, 15 de Octubre del 2011
(Spain)
> La Ventana, Casa de las Américas, 14 de
Octubre del 2011 (Cuba)
> Revista El Picadero, Instituto Nacional del
Teatro de Argentina, septembre-diciembre 2011 (Argentina)
Video
Eugenio Barba and the Odin Teatret actors rehearse The
Chronic Life ...
Photos
Rina Skeel 03.2011
Tommy Bay 09.2011
Jan Rüsz 09.2011
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Countries and Places:
2018
Denmark (Holstebro)
2017: Czech Republic (Brno);
Denmark (Holstebro)
2016: Cuba (Havana); Denmark
(Holstebro); Italy (Albino);
Romania (Sibiu)
2015: Colombia (Bogotá); Denmark
(Holstebro); Hungary (Budapest);
Norway (Oslo)
2014: China
(Shanghai); Denmark (Holstebro,
Århus); Great Britain
(London); Italy (Gallipoli, Milano)
2013: Brazil (São
Paulo); Denmark
(Holstebro); Germany (Freiburg); Italy
(Rome);
Uruguay (Montevideo)
2012: Denmark (Copenhagen,
Herning, Holstebro, Rinkøbing, Viborg); France
(Paris); Malta
(St. Julian's); Norway
(Porsgrunn); Poland
(Wroclaw); Romania
(Cluj-Napoca); Spain (
Madrid)
2011: Denmark (Holstebro);
Italy (Lecce, Prato, Pontedera);
Poland (Szczecin, Wroclaw)
International Festivals
Festival Divadelní Svèt Brno (2017)
FITS - Sibiu International Theatre Festival
(2016)
MITEM - Madách International Theatre Meeting
(2015)
FIDAE - Festival Internacionales de Artes
Escénicas, Montevideo, Uruguay (2013)
Malta Arts Festival (2012)
PIT - Porsgrunn International Theatre Festival,
Porsgrunn, Norway (2012)
Festival de Otoño en primavera, Madrid, Spain
(2012)
Festival Teatro
Era, Pontedera, Italy (2011)
14th Theatre
Meetings OKNO, Szczecin, Poland (2011)
Contemporanea
Festival, Prato, Italy (2011)