A dark, elegant multi-medial two-act play on longing, loss, and the fictions we build from truth — three voices caught in one unraveling story. At its heart, Bird in Magic Rain with Tears asks how much of the past we can bear, and how much we invent in order to live.
A text-theatre that sends shivers of joy down your spine because it’s so elegant, raw and cheeky […], but also because the experience is so complete and unique.
Essentially a piece about longing and coming to terms with one’s current situation or predicament, bird in magic raincenters around three characters whose fates are, more or less, coincidentally intertwined:
– a conceptual artist trying to get past the death of her son.– a boy-prostitute vainly looking to find the truth about his past.– a terminally ill businessman longing for the love his marriage could never provide.
The starting point for the play was a dark chapter in the biography storeulv (“big-wolf”), about real-life norwegian tanker mogul JOHN FREDRIKSEN. the project received early media attention, even before work began.
Eventually, the true story of fredriksen’s past became part of the play — raising questions around fact, fiction, and how we stage the truths of our lives.
What are the truths about ourselves and our past?
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Bird in Magic Rain with Tears trailer