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?