A dry, tight cough tears at the chest, sends dark flickers across the eyes. Sometimes I have to sit down, rest my forehead in my hands. Afterwards, breaths like long knives inside me. Sometimes I go out under the maple tree when it begins. Sometimes I lie flat in the grass. Sometimes I taste salt in my mouth.

What is it like to lose your life—just as it’s about to begin

For the first time, Paal-Helge Haugen’s award-winning fragmentary novel Anne is adapted for the stage. Born and raised in Valle, Setesdal, Haugen made his breakthrough at the age of just 23 with this very book. For Anne, he received the Nynorsk Cultural Prize, and today the work is considered a modern classic by one of Norway’s foremost poets.

This performance is an intimate and musical encounter with the sobering truth that the time we take for granted is never guaranteed. That the plans we make—to explore the world, to shape a life of our own—can be stolen from us.

In this emotionally charged monologue performance, 22 years are compressed into a single hour, through a series of vivid glimpses into a life cut tragically short when a young girl is struck by tuberculosis.

Cast: Ann Ingrid Fuglestveit, Åsmund Solberg
Director: Sullivan L. Nordrum
Costume and Set Design: Veronica Brøvig Vallenes
Composer: Åsmund Solberg
Dramaturg: Endre Sannes Hadland

https://kilden.com/forestilling/anne/