Originally a plant (with Black Box teater), 2022

Scenography for Originally a plant by Maritea Dæhlin. Black Box teater. NO

2022 Originally a plant (with Black Box teater), Jakob Oredsson 2022 Originally a plant (with Black Box teater), Jakob Oredsson 2022 Originally a plant (with Black Box teater), Jakob Oredsson 2022 Originally a plant (with Black Box teater), Jakob Oredsson 2022 Originally a plant (with Black Box teater), Jakob Oredsson 2022 Originally a plant (with Black Box teater), Jakob Oredsson 2022 Originally a plant (with Black Box teater), Jakob Oredsson 2022 Originally a plant (with Black Box teater), Jakob Oredsson 2022 Originally a plant (with Black Box teater), Jakob Oredsson 2022 Originally a plant (with Black Box teater), Jakob Oredsson 2022 Originally a plant (with Black Box teater), Jakob Oredsson

Description

Originally I was a plant, as you. Then we grew. So different from each other. Still together. We don't understand. Anything. No need for that. The understanding. Never in the way of being together. Next to each other.

What do you see when you see me?

In Originally a plant Maritea Dæhlin weaves together various languages. This is a reality for many of us, who continuously shift between languages, having to leave an open space for interpretation, lost words, ways of reading what is said or heard. This weave becomes a visual and sonic landscape, where some will be seen and some unseen, continuously appearing and disappearing, being understood and misunderstood.

When I see you, I see a group of people, like a herd, or like a football team, or like a continent, I see how you look away from me, all of you, and I hear our laughter, I feel how my stomach hurts, it cramps, hurting, because of our laughter, then I feel love, love for your people, and I look into your eyes, even you are looking away, and I say «I love you»

But can you love me?

I will not answer.

As a plant

With and by

Maritea Dæhlin: Director, text, performer
Jakob Oredsson: Scenography, Light
Pia Maria Roll: Dramaturg and collaborator in directing
Juan Sebastian Mariscal: Dramaturgical assistance
Soh Tokunaga: Props
Truls Hannemyr: Sound designer
Corentin JPM Leven: Technical coordinator and translator
Felipe Osorio-Guzmán: Scenography, Light assistant

Supported by

Arts Council Norway, Fond for lyd og bilde, Dramatikkens hus (The Norwegian Centre for New Playwriting – NCNP), The Fritt Ord Foundation, Fund for Performing Artists, Performing Arts Hub Norway, The Agency of Cultural Affairs (City of Oslo)

Co-production

Black Box teater, RAS - Regional Arena for Samtidsdans, Les SUBS – lieu vivant d’expériences artistiques

Photographer

Vegard Kleven

Materials/Dimensions

16 x 1000 W halogen flood lights, 16 black footstands, black cables, black aluminum pipe (12 m), frost filter (height 3,5 m)