A SCI-FI THRILLER ABOUT OUR FEAR OF THE INVASIVE

Cast Zenghao Yang, Yik-Sau Chung, Robin Khor Yong Kuan
Director Tue Biering
Set Designer Johan Kølkjær
Sound design Daniel Fogh
Light design Balder Nørskov
Dramaturg Cille Melgaard
Assisting director Katinka Hurvig Møller
Costumes Clara Bisgaard
Props Mille Carla Lorentzen Kristensen
Interns Léa Falconnet, Aurélie Alessandroni
Set designer’s assistant Mai Katsume
Stage manager Svante Huniche Corell
Communications manager Anne Bennike
Consultant Fabrizio Massini
Research  Nannan Chen
Production manager Anne Balsma
Producer Annette Max Hansen
Photo Catrine Zorn and Søren Meisner

World premiere after William Shakespeare by Tue Biering
About the piece
Hamlet is dead. Old Hamlet. Prince Hamlet’s father has the same name as his son. The old king Hamlet’s murderer is his brother Claudius. Claudius married Hamlet’s widow Gertrud and is now on the throne. Prince Hamlet studied in Wittenberg. He is now returning to Denmark. The coronation of the new king
Claudius calls for the prince. He is sick with grief and haunted by the ghost of his father. The ghost wants Hamlet to avenge him. William Shakespeare’s tragedy of 1602 is certainly one of, if not the most famous drama in the history of theatre. It exemplarily shows the complexity of human existence and how difficult it is to differentiate between good and bad. Hamlet fails spectacularly at the latter. Hamlet is perhaps the most famous play in the world. A highlight of European culture. The tragedy of the melancholic prince, who doesn’t know whether he wants to be or not, is for many people the epitome of theater. For Shakespeare his origin lies in Denmark – currently the happiest country on earth. The internationally acclaimed Danish director Tue Biering works – freely based on the original – with a real, Danish Hamlet on the questions of the drama and the question of what it means to play this piece today. What does the drama of a young man refusing to abandon the old order and defending it down to the blood tell us? Is it perhaps true that we would all love to be Hamlet? Eternally misunderstood and brimming with righteous anger. With biting humor and great enthusiasm for playing with layers, “Prince of Denmark” tells the brilliant story of the original on one hand and how it is staged in 2021 on the other. Tue Biering, one of Denmark’s most interesting directors and playwrights, regards Shakespeare’s play with a Danish actor as Hamlet. The question ofidentity and truthfulness, which drives Hamlet insane, is thus shifted to the level of those playing.

WITH:  Katharina Abt, Morten Burian, Henrik Kordes, Thorsten Loeb, Marielle Layher, Max Scherer, Daniel Scholz, Stefan Schuster, Maximilian Siegling, Béla Milan Uhrlau, Mathias Znidarec

STILLE SLAG is a newly written choral work for 7 voices by Louise Alenius with text by Tanja Diers, staged by Tue Biering in a visual concept by Ida Grarup. Text and music are created on the basis of interviews with former inmates in Danish prisons.

Actor

Morten Grove Frandsen, Katinka Fogh Vindelev, Julie Meera Albertsen, Kirsten Grove, Mathias Monrad Møller, Kristian Bordoy and Gustav Johansson, Tanja Bibi Berthelsen, Jannik Vig, Boris Andersen, Habib Moutran, Lars Vesterlund

Composer Louise Alenius

Text and dramaturgy Tanja Diers

Direction Tue Biering

Scenography and costumes Ida Grarup

Lighting designer Balder Nørskov

Lighting consultant Suni Joensen

Producer Amanda Tilia Hamelle

Creative producer Tanja Diers

Cast Katharina Adrian

Production manager Svend Martin Holst

Performance manager Signe Lausen and Lene Sonne

Stage master Rasmus Rahbek

Sound and video technician Morten Frank Nebelong

Tailoring room manager Christina Seistrup

Chief playwright and curator Rikke Hedeager

Performance photo Søren Meisner

Director’s assistant Theodor Peschardt Sandblad

Scenography assistant Ida Pontoppidan

Assistant stage manager Anders Toft Pedersen

Administrator Scene 42

Thanks to

Café Exit, Prison Choir, Head On, Correctional Service, Vestre Fængsel, Frederik Rolin, Signe Asmussen and Agnete Krabbe

Supported by

The Norwegian Arts Foundation, the Obel Family Foundation, the Wilhelm Hansen Foundation, the Augustinus Foundation and the Louis Hansen Foundation

What is your deepest and innermost desire?
Do you even know what you desire?

Enter the ZONE – a forbidden, deadly and mysterious place. At its center you will find the ROOM – a place where all your dreams and desires come true. Only those who are lost can enter the ZONE and only STALKER the wanderer can lead you to the ROOM. STALKER is the voice in your ear.

STALKER is a podwalk for two by Fix&Foxy and Third Ear inspired by Tarkovsky’s cult sci-fi. It will take you on a journey into the deepest levels of your consciousness. Find a friend, bring your phone, put on headphones and follow the instructions at www.stalker.audio. Perhaps your greatest desire will be fulfilled.

STALKER is for free and in English. It’s available every night at 21.00 on www.stalker.audio from June 2nd 2021. But before you make it that far, here are some instructions to follow and understand:

1. STALKER is an experience for two. It’s therefore important you find a friend to join you. You cannot do it alone. But it can only be the two of you.
2. Find a place outside with a lot of space and few people. But make sure that you have internet coverage there, otherwise it won’t work
3. Pack a fully charged smartphone with a good internet connection, and a pair of headphones. Your friend should do the same.
4. Prepare for all kinds of weather.
5. Visit www.stalker.audio to make sure you are prepared. Remember to share this link with your friend.

Credits

Idea Tue Biering og Tim Hinman
Text and directing Tue Biering, Krister Moltzen and Tim Hinman
Sound Design Tim Hinman
The Voice Imre Mark Petkov
Production Manager Frederik Neilbo
Production Coordinator Camilla Gürtler
Producer Karoline Michelsen

THE STATE

– 12 portraits of us

The city is a completely impossible fantasy of gathering many, very different people in very little space and making it work.

THE STATE is the image of a complex society in which the right-wing radicals, the left-wing, the rich, the homeless, the vegans, the migrants, the minorities and those who have lost live side by side. We all live in the welfare state, which has the task of ensuring the basic social rights of all citizens. We have all given up some of our freedom to the state in return for receiving the security that the community gives us. But are we safe, and do we really agree on anything anymore? And what is left of the STATE?

With Shakespeare’s HAMLET as a template, the lives of 12 different citizens in the STATE are evoked. We meet someone who has the ability to see ghosts, we also meet the grave digger, one of society’s rich people and someone who has almost nothing, a revolutionary who was radicalized by the state, a patriot, someone who the state called crazy, someone who tries to fit in, someone who creates the story of the STATE, someone who lost his good friend, and someone who has completely opted out of the STATE…

This walk is also a preliminary study for FIX & FOXY’s “THE STATE”, which is a megalomaniacal staging of all of Copenhagen for a whole year in season 22/23.

Credits:

concept/directing: Tue Biering

Assistents/casting: Katinka Hurvig Møller, Baldrian Sector

Camera / technique / casting: Frederik Nielbo

Produced by Metropolis

https://www.metropolis.dk/en/tue-biering/

We love the stories where good triumphs over evil. In all good drama, literature, movies, pixie books, good ideals fight against dark forces. We like stories that end well. We know who to cheer for. We like that we at the theater are constructive. That we tell people to behave properly. But the world has become complex. Now we have to see it from several sides, we have to accommodate them all and we have to understand the big contexts.

Three actors throw themselves into the battle between good and evil in a world where heroes fall from the sky. Where Morgan Freeman is no longer “always feel good”. Where we can no longer dance innocently to Michael Jackson, where Ronaldo cheats on taxes and rapes unconscious women and so does Dr Cosby Huxable by the way. A world where the saints are pedophiles, the collectivists have hidden bank accounts and where the liberalists practice humanism to a degree that the avowed humanists will never be able to match.We can no longer work out who is who because reality has run away from the fictions we grew up with – the time when fairy tales clear division of the world between the bad and the good made the language clear and the world a clear and safe place to be.

“I want to go back to the fairy tale. Back when the world was black and white. I want to go back to heroes, villains, good and evil and where everyone plays their roles as they should”

Starring: MARIE KNUDSEN FOGH, JACOB MOTH-POULSEN, ENA SPOTTAG

Playwright and director Tue Biering

Set designer Nicolaj Spangaa

Assistant Director Jara El Baz

Lighting design Kasper Daugberg

Sound Design Aske Bergenhammer Hoeg

In addition, Sofie Elisabeth Strunck, Emma Gonzales Busk, Rumle Grunwald Falk, Anders Chræmmer, Dorit Selmer, Bo Windfeldt, Hans Peder Christensen, Benny Wagner, Geden Ludvig Zookeeper Anders Vestergård Jensen also take part

Photo: Lars Horn / Baghuset

On stage are 22 children between 10 – 14 years. They relate to their possible future fate based on statistics. AGAINST ALL ODDS is a story about children’s lives and what they could potentially look like as future adults –  according to figures and forcasts from several research institutes. It is a projection of the statistics, however brutal and uncompromising.

AGAINST ALL ODDS is based on extensive research. The children on stage are cast based on their background, broadly representing the composition of children in Denmnark in relation to social classes and family relations.

Participants: 22 children aged 10-14
Anna Olympia Bøss, Artianne Olivia Søgaard Andersen, Asta Bundgaard Wanscher, Conrad Bengtsson, David Prammann, Emma Skov Dahl Christiansen, Falke Lindegaard Hvidtfeldt, Felix Worsøe Alegre, Frederikke Holm Bergendorff, Ida Møller, Isaac William Bjerregaard, Jaafar Machal, Kajsa Krogh Larsen, Luka Gry Selander, Michael Basse Theobald, Molly Grand, Nikolaj Hansen, Nicholai Kristensen, Ronja Emilie Clemens Tillebeck, Samir Abdi Elni, Thea Hagelskjær Godskesen, Ursula Outzen, Zaraphina Corrie Bendtsen.

DIRECTING Tue Biering

SCENOGRAPHY Karin Gille

SOUND DESIGN Janus Jensen

LIGHT DESIGN Malte Hauge

DRAMATURG Tanja Diers

CASTER AND COORDINATOR Freja Rault-Lykkeberg

AGAINST ALL ODDS is produced in collaboration with Betty Nansen Teatret.

Supported by Danish Art Counsil & Wilhelm Hansen Fonden

Stemmen: Nana-Francisca Schottländer

Instruktion: Tue Biering

Scenografi: Nathalie Mellbye

Lyddesign: Ditlev Brinth

Lysdesign: Michael Breiner

The Artist Morten Burian
Member of the Danish People’s Party (Dansk Folkeparti) Cheanne Nielsen
Worker on stage Dennis Villads Thomsen
Director & playwright Tue Biering
Set designer Peter Schultz
Sound design Ditlev Brinth
Light designer Mathilde Niemann Hüttel
Dramaturge and translator Pernille Kragh
Photographer Henrik Ohsten
Trailer Søren Meisner

TOURING PRODUCTION TEAM

The artist Morten Burian / Joe Young
Politician Cheanne Bo Nielsen
Worker on stage Bradley Pattison / Martin MacLennan
Producer and dramaturge Pernille Kragh
Head of tech and tour Henrik Bank
International producer Annette Max Hansen

BIERING/CHEMNITZ

with the ROYAL DANISH BALLET 28 October – 17 November 2016

A ballet of destruction and about letting Sleeping Beauty face reality

If there is one ballet that is as beautiful as a dream and almost unreal graceful and romantic, then it is Sleeping Beauty. It’s a ballet that looks like a dream, a wonderful world you can disappear into with princes, princesses and great love. Sleeping Beauty is the climax of the romantic ballet, where the dancers seem to float. It’s almost as if they also only exist in the imagination.

In Sleeping Beauty must die, Corpus has invited Biering/Chemnitz to the ballet for the first time. They have been tasked to fuck with the dream world. In their ballet of destruction, the sweaty crotch bandages, the injuries and gravity come into view. It shows the dancers’ irritation with the gender roles behind the adorable tutus, their sexuality, injuries and looming age. Sleeping Beauty Must Die challenges everything we think we know about Sleeping Beauty.

Biering/Chemnitz is the director Tue Biering and the scenographer Marie Rosendahl Chemnitz. Tue Biering is one part of Fix&Foxy and has, among other things, staged the blockbuster Pretty Woman with prostitutes, outsourced a performance of Elverhøj to Bangladesh and let 30 teenagers invite the audience into their very intimate lives. Marie Rosendahl Chemnitz has been part of the artist collective Sort Samvittighed and, together with Tue Biering, has created the performances Familieudredning and Staying Alive at the Ministry of Events.

Here they create a ballet together with Corpus and seven dancers from the Royal Ballet by seeing and showing them as real people.

Cast: Susanne Gry Grinder, Benjamin Buza, Alexander Stæger, Sam Rees, Eliabe D’Abadia, Cedric Lambrette, Julien Roman

Concept and director: Tue Biering

Scenography and costumes: Marie Rosendahl Chemnitz

Sound design: Ditlev Brinth Christiansen

Lighting design: Anders Poll

Production assistant: Katinka Hurvig Møller

The Royal Theatre, 20 January-4 March 2016

The Red Room invites director Tue Biering to give them a challenge, and he has set the task: live out your dream performances on stage.

It’s an evening where six actors’ dreams of the most amazing, boundary-crossing, touching, society-shattering performance come true for a moment. They get the chance to create that special moment in the theater they have dreamed of, the one that makes the big difference, an ultimate personal achievement or the opportunity to create something artistically perfect, flawless, magical just this once.

Tue Biering has been behind TurboTown at the Royal Theater and most recently in the Ministry of Events created Singin’ in the Rain, Family investigation, This is not the Star Wars trilogy and Staying Alive. As part of the artist duo Fix & Foxy, he created A Doll’s House for the Royal Theater in 2014, which was performed in private homes in Copenhagen and Oslo.

Dream performances will be created in close collaboration with the actors.

Cast:

Mikkel Arndt

Peter Christoffersen

Marie Dalsgaard

Nicolai Dahl Hamilton

Purple Nobel

Staging: Tue Biering

Scenography and costumes: Jonas Fly

Lighting design: Clement Irbil

The Royal Theatre, Skuespilhuset, The Red Room

Premiere January 7, 2016

When the yearly awardshow Reumert runs for the 17th time on Sunday 21 June 2015, the audience and viewers can look forward to a straightforward, unpretentious and not least unpredictable version of an awards show. The staging is this year in the creative hands of the director duo FIX & FOXY. Together with three hosts, they turn both the stage and the whole concept inside out. The award ceremony will be shown live on DRK.

Hosts: Sigrid Husjord, Kristoffer Fabricius and Troels Thorsen.

Concept and direction: Tue Biering and Jeppe Kristensen

Scenography: Nicolaj Spangaa

Bandmaster: Joakim Pedersen

A staging of the difference between the haves and the have-nots

THE DANCE HALLS 21 NOVEMBER – 1 DECEMBER

Eight cash assistance recipients visiting an elitist French art film. They discover an abundance of food, sex and existentialism. Why do the rich eat so much? What do they want with angora sweaters? And why can’t they figure out how to live?

Fix&Foxy invites a group of cash assistance recipients to test and comment on upper-class life as depicted by the cultural elite themselves.

In Fix&Foxy’s LA GRAND BOUFFE, two social groups collide in the theatre. Our prejudices about each other become a picture of modern life with all its aspirations and meaninglessness.

THE ROYAL THEATER, MINISTRY OF EVENTS APRIL 2014

The three main actors had been looking forward to presenting the ultimate performance: Star Wars.

They had prepared a spectacular stage show with advanced choreography and convincing fights. The set designer had set a whole team of carpenters to build the Death Star. The costumes had been sewn in Eastern Europe. Laser lights and a particularly effective sound system were purchased for staggering sums. But then George Lucas said no.

Despite the extensive and thoroughly professional preparatory work, the Ministry of Events has been banned from doing the Star Wars performance due to rights issues and has had to send all lightsabers back to China and destroy everything that had anything to do with the planned performance.

What remains are the three actors who should have played the main roles in the theatrical scoop of the century. They refuse to leave the stage and insist on telling about the performance they are not allowed to do.

In the performance This is not the Star Wars trilogy, the three perfectly cast actors lead the audience through an absolutely fantastic performance that is not there.

To George Lucas: No direct quotes from Star Wars will be used, nor will any of the effects intended for the original setup be used.

Cast: Thomas Hwan, Troels Thorsen and Sigrid Husjord | Staging and concept: Tue Biering | Costumes: Anne Sofie Bruun | Lighting: Dres Kean Andresen | Performance photo: Natascha Thiara Rydvald | Production assistant: Christine Seierstad | Producer: Rikke Hedeager

MUNGO PARK, MARCH 2014

NORDSKOVEN is an autobiographical performance, based on the life of Mungo Park actor Kasper Leisner.

Jeppe runs. Because if there’s one thing he can do, it’s running. On the sports field, in the military and from the first 13 years of his life. He runs away from his childhood home. From the boy he once was. Jeppe wants to start over and changes his name to Kasper.

A new life begins. Kasper must find his own way. But can you change your future by escaping from your past?

NORDSKOVEN takes us on a journey through a man’s life. A journey where love, failure, desire for freedom and dreams often take quite unexpected directions with major personal consequences. This is the journey from the narrow film idyll of early childhood through the first parties and boyfriends to the theater school, the hippie collective, Mungo Park and the great love.

Despite the many dramatic incidents, the performance raises the question: Is Kasper Leisner’s turbulent life in reality very different from yours and mine?

Cast:

Casper Leisner

Peter Christoffersen

Concept and Direction:

Tue Biering

Scenographer:

Marie Rosendahl Chemnitz

Props/costumes:

Catherine Bunton

Sound Design:

Rasmus Overgaard Hansen

Lighting design:

Jacob Rasmussen

Assistant Instructors:

Tabitha Friis Kristensen

Ida Marie Bille

Producer:

Anne Sophie Fogedby

FIX&FOXY, NOVEMBER 2012

“Art and politics are separate dimensions and what I did was in the world of art”

Leni Riefenstahl

With “Triumph of the Will” we are trying to recreate one of film history’s great but deeply problematic masterpieces: Leni Riefenstahl’s Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will. As a gifted, pioneering woman, Riefenstahl came in 1934 to destroy art’s relationship to beauty. With her poetically filmed and eminently edited film Viljens Triumf, she made art’s relationship to optimism and community a rotten banana.

The Triumph of the Will is a masterpiece about freedom, community and optimism.

A work of art which, with its beauty and sublime aesthetics, managed to give its audience the feeling of hope and the will to change the world. The Triumph of the Will, the actors and its audience changed the world with a power and effect that few works of art before or since have had.

Can art be the bearer of political messages and in the name of art disclaim responsibility for its subsequent effect.

Cast: Anders Mossling

Concept and instruction:

Tue Biering and Jeppe Kristensen.

Scenographer:

Sille Don’s Heltoft.

Video designer: Jonas Jongejan.

Lighting designer

Kristine Hamann Rasmussen.

Sound designer: Jes Brander Theede

Performance manager:

Pernille Kabell.

Assistant Instructors:

Johan Sarauw, Franziska Koller.

Set Designer: Joy Sun-Ra Pawl Hoyle.

Press and marketing: Janne Schnipper.

Producer and production manager: Søren Normann Hansen.

The performance is supported by: The Arts Council’s Performing Arts Committee

Copenhagen Municipality’s Performing Arts Committee

THE ROYAL THEATER, MINISTRY OF EVENTS, OCTOBER 2013

On stage are seven completely ordinary people. They are not actors. They have become related to each other through their children. They do not know each other’s stories and expose their life stories on stage to find out who they have ended up in the family with.

With this performance, they are all together for the first time. It turns out that they have already crossed each other’s lives over the past 60 years by chance.

On stage, we hear the story of the butcher’s daughter who bathed in sausage roll water and regrets that she never became a gogo dancer, the girl from the Indremission home who didn’t dare to follow her dreams, the man who has read the Encyclopedia twice and can prove his own immortality, the dyslexic boy who ran away from home, got a girl in every port and later suffered memory loss, the man who became 15 cm shorter in one day and learned to fly by the power of thought, the girl who wanted to see the whole world and met Amdi Petersen and the woman who got letter from Mick Jagger and has watched all 5243 episodes of Glamour.
Family investigation, a show about the coincidences of life, about the dreams and expectations of the youth for the future and the absolutely fantastic in the life of every single, completely ordinary person.

Concept, staging, scenography: Tue Biering and Marie Rosendahl Chemnitz.
Dramaturg: Jeppe Kristensen
Performance photos: Natascha Thiara Rydvald

Dance teacher: Hanne Klausen
Singing teacher: Jeanett Albeck

Cast: Biering and Rosendahl Chemnitz’ own parents with new and old partners: Ulla Chemnitz, Jacob Branner, Bente Biering-Sørensen, Gorm Biering-Sørensen, Ninna Stryhn, Stig Rosendahl and Susanne Blom.

AARHUS THEATER FEBRUARY 2013, CAFE THEATER MARCH 2013

Three young people are traveling through Europe. They have reached the German metropolis, Dresden, which was bombed over two days in 1945 by the American and British air forces.

In their hotel room they are bored. They don’t understand why Germans are so preoccupied with their past. In their thirst for action, they start playing neo-Nazis – and along the way meet a talking deer and a storyteller who helps them build a Nazi park.

“The Germans are non-Germans. After the war, they discovered that the national is just a shirt you put on. The non-German wakes up every morning in his bed and feels like an effervescent tablet thrown into a glass of water.”

“But what are all those neo-Nazis doing?”

Cast: Ene Øster Bendtsen, Kristoffer Fabricius, Jacob Madsen Kvols Director: Tue Biering. Playwright: Christian Lollike. Set designer: Nicolaj Spangaa

About the silent film, its heroes and a new world of moving images

Nørrebro Theatre, Frederiksberg stage 23 March – 20 April 2013

About a world that was once black and white and where the masters of slapstick were the true heroes of the time.

The performance is a declaration of love to the equilibrists of the silent film who, with the most daring slapstick the world had seen, put their lives on the line for the audience’s laughter.

With B/W, Flyvende Grise uses their visual and technical universe to imitate the masters of the silent film in their dangerous art.

Actor: Thomas Corneliussen Direction: Tue Biering Scenography: Nicolaj Spangaa Script: Thomas Corneliussen and Tue Biering Composers: Mark Solborg and Maja Romm Lighting design: Andreas Buhl Sound design: Janus Jensen Producer: Søren Normann Hansen

The performance is supported by the Danish Arts Council’s Performing Arts Committee and Copenhagen Theatre.

HUSETS THEATRE, JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2012

With the SEX AND VIOLENCE freak show, Fix & Foxy takes the entertainment to extremes. Without fine sensibilities and morals, the show presents the sex and violence and real misfortune that is the favorite entertainment of the time. This gives the audience the opportunity to laugh at the ugly, the strange and the unsympathetic – and their poor lives.
The stage is populated with five giant dolls from the dark side of life. They express themselves best through abuse and neglect, so here comes a musical, pornographic and violent show where the dolls make themselves available for basic research into the darkened areas of the human soul.

SEX AND VIOLENCE is the Muppet Show for adults featuring a group of ugly, stupid and uninhibited giant puppets ready to go to any length to entertain their audience. Dolls fall outside the criminal code, so there is nothing they are not allowed to do. And luckily, it’s not real people, getting hurt!

With: SIGRID HUSJORD, NANNA BØTTCHER, DANIEL NORBACK, JACOB LOHMANN and KRISTOFFER FABRICIUS
Concept and staging: TUE BIERING and JEPPE KRISTENSEN
Doll universe: REBECCA ARTHY

Music: ANDREAS UGORSKIJ
Lighting design: MADS VEGAS

Sound design: JES THEEDE

The performance is created by the team

The performance is supported by the Arts Council’s Film and Performing Arts Committee and has been created as a co-production with Husets Teater

FREDERIKSBERGSCENEN, NØRREBRO THEATER, MARCH – APRIL 2012

Darkness is a poetic, visual and physical performance by Flyvende Grise – the ensemble behind the Reumert Prize-winning performance The Story of Everything.

You turn off the light, you close your eyes, and you let the dreams take over you…

We all have an idea of our dream job, dream trip or the perfect dream life. But not all dreams we wish come true.

Darkness sends you on a journey into the darker layers of the alternate realities of fantasy and dreams. Here, nothing is what it first appears to be. And what do you do when you can’t trust what you think you’re experiencing?

Behind this visual and strongly physical performance is the only ensemble in Denmark that – in addition to the almost weightless actor Thomas Corneliussen – also has a habit of having robots in the cast.

Darkness splits the reality you’re watching into multiple layers of animations, live video manipulation and newly composed music. Here, nothing is what it first appears to be.

The press wrote:

“an incredible performance. (…) Scary and funny at the same time. And as theater craft considered absolutely eminent.” Jyllands-Posten

“‘Flying Pigs’ has once again performed one of those performances that storms the barricades in the sand castles of our welfare society at breakneck speed. With Corneliussen as one man on stage, and all the others at pumps, wrenches, sound generators and light and video organs for to create the kind of total theater that has its roots in people like Chaplin and Jacques Tati.” Gregersdh.dk

“The brilliant Thomas Corneliussen is alone on stage in a perfectly orchestrated interplay with a sublimely disturbing soundscape, with the light that comes and goes, with projections, TV screen, refrigerator and the animated monsters, which become a not-so-slightly creepy part of his existence.” Berlingske Tidende

“Thomas Corneliussen is a magical performer. He can stand with his jointed shoulders in a flapping suit and look like any banker in the world. But as soon as he glances at the audience and raises as much as a knee, his radiance turns on as if he had built a lighting system into his body – and then you can’t help but stare at him until his performance is finished .” Information

“Rapid scene changes. Sounds and movements in fast forward or slow motion that poetically and inventively show the increasing insanity (…) brilliantly funny.” the policy

Actor: Thomas Corneliussen Direction: Tue Biering Scenography: Nicolaj Spangaa Script: Thomas Corneliussen and Tue Biering Composers: Mark Solborg and Maja Romm Lighting design: Andreas Buhl
Sound design: Janus Jensen Producer: Søren Normann Hansen

The performance is supported by the Danish Arts Council’s Performing Arts Committee and Copenhagen Theatre.

THE KGL. THEATER, MINISTRY OF EVENTS OCTOBER 2011 – MAY 2012

You, dear audience, are invited to a tour of the backstage at The Royal Theatre. But not a normal tour. A tour right into the soul of the theatre. So stay close together so that you don’t get separated from the group, because you could easily witness something that you basically can’t deal with at all.

The tour begins on the busy third floor – called the command bridge. The stage manager, dramaturg, costume designer and scenographer work here. And here the actors have their wardrobes, where they read, practice and sleep – and what follows from that. Time has stopped up here. Until in the evening, when the curtain is pulled down on the stages downstairs. When the audience pours into the blood-red seats in the dark. Then the real life begins – with tears and laughter, with life and death. The soul of the theater lives here. Here lives life itself.

But why are large parts of the theater blocked off? And why are there strange dark men walking around the corridors and stealing? Directors and actors are killing each other in the dressing rooms. The young tour guide becomes more and more confused as you open door after door into the inner room of the theater. And suddenly he’s gone. You are really only on a tour, but now you are part of life at the theatre. The carpet will go in a moment. The performance must begin. You can’t let the audience down. They trust you. There is no way out.

Now you are the theater.

Direction and concept: Tue Biering, Mia Lipschitz and Anders Lundorph

Cast:

Niels Martin Eriksen

Daniel Norback

Preben Kristensen

Mogens Pedersen

etc.

Production: Rikke Hedeager Matthiesen

Costume assistant: Anne Sofie Bruun

The Ministry of Events is supported by the Bikubenfonden.

4 + 11 + 18 + 25 FEBRUARY 2011
NYAVENY, in collaboration with Mammutteatret

All get smacked is a furious satirical marathon, where the texts are produced from Monday morning and throughout the week, parallel to the stories appearing on the newspaper front pages. During the week, actors and guest artists are connected, and on Friday evening at 10 p.m., it’s all shot off in a bang by a weekly political review. This is neither VKO nor SF, it is SM satire – everyone gets slapped!

Up-to-date satire and fixed serials will go hand in hand, we will see crazy monologues and economic tango seasoned with breaking and indispensable news from Frederiksberg and the world around us. Nothing mentioned, nothing forgotten – every Friday at NYAVENY_ will be unique!

Information writes: “Kamikazekomik…It’s a revue without a safety net, which dares to bet in front of its audience. It’s live theatre, fart and ballad with a splash of political criticism…Yes, now Nyaveny has played hot and turned theater into a martial art.” Read the full review

Cast: Tina Gylling Mortensen, Christian Hetland, Nanna Bøttcher, Sigrid Kandal Husjord, Egill Pálsson, Laus Høybye and Rasmus Hammerich with guests
Texts: Claus Flygare, Henrik Prip, Henrik Lykkegaard and Nanna Bøttcher
Director: Tue Biering

Instructor assistant: Ane Bank
Set designer: Trine Haastrup
Production Manager: Mammad Aliabadian
Stage Master: Aston Kay
Costumes: Camilla Lind
Performance manager: Pernille Kabell
Director: Eva Thagaard
PR: Janne Schnipper
Producer: Signe Allerup and Anny Dirchsen

NYAVENY, 2010

A live theatre performance and sit-com recording in front of a live studio audience

For 10 seasons the all time favourite sit com Friends aired all over the world. A show about ordinary people with ordinary problems, trying make it work in New York. Trying to get a job, a place to live, maybe get a girlfriend, or try to get rid of one.

This theatre performance casted some other ordinary people who just wants to make their lives work. A group of asylum seekers living in the asylum camps around Copenhagen starred in the roles as the six friends.

For 13 episodes they where hanging out in Central Perk instead of the camps in a serial performance. It was just like real friends, just like real life. Just a little bit funnier.

FRIENDS – The One With The Asylum Seekers And Some Rejected Ones played at NyAveny_ from May 8th to May 22th 2010.

CREDITS/

Performers:

Host: Egill Palsson

Directing & Concept: Tue Biering, Jeppe Kristensen

Co.-directing: Egill Palsson

Set-design: Siri Vilbøl

Videodesign: Jonas Jongejan

Lightdesign: Antonio Rodrigues Andersen

Sounddesign: Aske Hoeg

Stagemanager: Mette Bisgaard

Productionmanager: Hanna Grue

Assistant: Anders Brendstrup

Posterphoto: Per Morten Abrahamsen

Band: Søren og Anders

SPONSORS/

Danish Arts Counsil, Bikubenfonden

FLYING PIGS

FREDERIKSBERGSCENEN, NØRREBRO THEATER 2012

JOMFRU ANE THEATER 2010, THEATER GROB, 2012

INDEX: A both funny and complex notion of man’s eternal need to put things in larger contexts; told with live technology, video and animations through the past, present and future.

An entertaining and relevant performance about man’s eternal urge to grasp and understand all kinds of phenomena

THE STORY OF EVERYTHING is something as ambitious as a monologue that will tell the story of EVERYTHING. Nothing less! A tribute to those who have helped to gather all the knowledge we had no idea existed, and which we may not even know if we will ever need.

Wanting to know everything naturally contains a built-in impossibility. Understanding and concluding on the world’s infinite information is precisely about “calculating” and “adding up” and thus about throwing information away in favor of a holistic experience. THE STORY OF EVERYTHING is therefore also the story of failing, of not being able to understand and contain the whole world, and of those who can content themselves with embracing it all in a single idea – or in a kiss.

Flying Pigs mixes technique, poetry, animations, video.

AWARD/

Best performance, Årets Reumert 2010 for small big performance.

NOMINATION/

Best director 2010

CREDITS/

Performers: Thomas Corneliussen

Directing: Tue Biering

Text: Tue Biering, Thomas Corneliussen

Set design: Nicolaj Spangaa

Light design: Andreas Buhl

Sound design: Janus Jensen

Music composers: Mark Solborg, Maja Romm

Flash animation: Nicolaj Spangaa

Produced by Flying Pigs, Jomfru Ane Theatre

SPONSORS/

Danish Arts Council

***** “To hell with space travel!” the policy

***** “Deeply fascinating” Gregers. read more here

***** “A rare solid little gem of a performance” Berl. Time. read more here

*****

“Witful and virtuoso” JP. read more here

*****

“Exudes presence and humor and is certainly one of the finest gems of the theater season” Byenkalder.dk. read more here

*****

“Impressive performance! I was entertained from the start, especially by the beautiful and well-thought-out changes with lighting, sound, acting and stunts… The play made me think about which episodes in my life should be included if it passed the revue.. .” Kulturkongen.dk. read more here

KUNSTHALLEN BRANDTS, 2009

The old lady has been living in her house for hundreds of years without a drop of coffee. Here she lives with all her yellow birds trying to keep the rooms together all day long. She nits and crochets, she hammers and sews – because someone has been dreaming of the house. The house changes, transforms and is almost disappearing. Far away in the forest there was a small house – never have I seen such a strange little house…

A house between dream and reality

This year’s Sensory exhibition for children Kunsthallen Brandts has created a house of dreams. The artists Marie Rosendahl Chemnitz and Tue Bjering have been inspired by the borderline between dream and reality. They challenge common sense and create new worlds. The setting in this year’s sensory exhibition is an awry strangely house consisting of 14 different rooms. All of the rooms are recognisable but as you enter an adventure starts and you will discover unusual things – has somebody been having a party in the wardrobe?

Koncept: Tue Biering og Marie Rosendahl Chemnitz

THE ROYAL DANISH THEATRE, 2009

Poul Reumert is dead, long live Poul Reumert! Imagine if the very King of the Royal Theater in the 20th century once again had the opportunity to let his ore-filled voice be heard.

In Reumert Remix, Poul Reumert rises from the dead. Actor Thomas Corneliussen puts his mouth to Reumert’s many outpourings and Lip-synchs himself through portraits of great men, lumpy characters, guys in love and grumpy old patriarchs. As if his mouth were a loudspeaker for Reumert’s words. On the other hand, Thomas Corneliussen’s body does not always want the same as his mouth. And that can well cause a bit of dramatic tension.

The Ministry of Events in Skuespilhuset has set itself a formidable task – to give Reumert a magnificent comeback in the 21st century. Over 100 hours of sound recordings with Poul Reumert have been cross-cut and scratched, looped and filtered to create a completely new story about the enigmatic actor. For who was he really inside the Caesar costume and the heavy white make-up?

The name is undoubtedly Reumert, Poul Reumert. The man behind the name is sent for a ride in the boxing ring against himself and barely has time to speak before the gong gong challenges him to play a new role. And it’s honestly a bit confusing for the old man to have to keep up with today’s pace. But suddenly the devil takes over Reumert, and he rattles off roles at a pace as if he were on a diet of mescaline and finely chewed laurel wreaths.

Director Tue Biering has put together the story together with Thomas Corneliussen, Jes Theede is the sound man and Event Master Rikke Hedeager Matthiesen is responsible for the production and the laurel wreaths.

HALMTORVET, NOVEMBER 2009

A performance that dealt with and made use of the powerfull psycologies of buying an other person/selling your self for money.

The performance was a staging of the Hollywood blockbuster ‘Pretty Woman’ where we bought a prostitute each night to perform the role of Julia Roberts Vivian, and professional performer Anders Mossling performed Richard Geres role Edward, thus recreating the money and powerbased starting point between Vivian and Edward that movie has. It took place in three construction site containers placed on the central prostitution square in Vesterbro.

9 woman from the local drugprostitution scene performed in the play. In the performance they where given stage directions and lines through an in-ear loud-speaker.

The resulting performance was a very fragile and intense being-together between audience, actors and the prostitutes inside the containers. As it happened in the film, you very quickly forgot that Vivian was a prostitute, instead hoping for the romance to happen.

We like to see theatre as a form of friendship. In this case very strange but intense and warm relations was created between actors, audience and prostitutes. Outside the containers the performance raised a great deal of debate on the subject prostitution, inside the containers it gave the audience the possiblity to meet the persons behind the debate without ever letting them speak other lines than the strict dialog of the ‘Pretty Woman’ movie.

CREDITS/

Performers: Anders Mossling, Egill Palsson, 9 prostitutes

Directing: Tue Biering, Jeppe Kristensen

Set-design: Christian Friedlænder

Productionmanager: Anders Sylvest

Videodesign: Jonas Jongejan

Lightdesign: Antonio Rodrigues Andersen

Sounddesign: Aske Høeg

Stagemanager/props: Siri Vilbøl

Assistant director: Sanna Albjørk

Production Manager: Anders Sylvest

Posterphoto: Per Morten Abrahamsen

SPONSORS/

Danish Arts Counsil

NOMINATION/

Best director 2009

– THE HUNT FOR A DANE IN NY

COMING UP SOMEWHERE SOON…

A Danish artist takes on the quest for finding Sune Wagner in the American jungle, called New York.  Wagner has chosen to unite with the unknown and live out the American dream.  Our man has been sent out to retrieve Wagner and bring him back to the Danish civilization, yet again.  The journey through Harlem, Fifth Ave, and China Town is an encounter with the American culture, and a search for answers to how this city captured the Dane by the heart.  At the same time, it is a journey into a European soul that still is very much alive and breathing in NYC, and a reunion with ghosts from the past.  In the quest for Sune Wagner, our man meets other artists. The American on the streets of New York, and the Dane who has settled down in NY.  Through these encounters, the film debates cultural heritage, belongingness, and the myths and pre-assumptions we have about each other.

an election campaign for community spirit

In 2007, we wanted to make a performance in connection with the general election. As the official election campaign progressed, we became more and more uncomfortable with the way all political parties catered exclusively to majority groups, who were promised better economic conditions and more welfare.
Together with performer and activist Ellen Nyman and TV-GLad, a TV station run by disabled people, we therefore led an election campaign for three disabled employees at TV-Glad – Nikolaj, Vibeke and Amir.
Their campaign was about speaking on behalf of all minorities, who were otherwise overheard in the election campaign of the major parties.
Thanks to a great effort by a group of volunteers, Nikolaj, Vibeke and Amir managed to collect enough signatures to actually appear on the official ballot.

The incident took an unexpected turn when the three candidates were censored from Deadline on DR.

CONCEPT & PROMOTIONS/
Jeppe Kristensen, Ellen Nymann, Tue Biering, Lars Werner Thomsen, Jesper Michelsen, Mikkel Holmbäck, Henrik Marentius, Amir Becirovic, Nicolai K. Mittet, Vibeke Baden Laursen


AT THE ROYAL DANISH THEATRE, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

Performers and musicians are recreating the old murdermystery radio theatre play “Murder Melody”. Like in the days of live radio they are using all kinds of geräuch, to create the right atmosphere for the scenes. The live performance is interacting with the old recordings of “Murder Melody”.

CREDITS/

Idea: Rasmus Botoft, Rikke Hedeager Mathiessen, Tue Biering

Concept: Tue Biering

Performers: Tina Gylling Mortensen, Jens Jacob Tychsen, Lisbeth Wulff and Rasmus Botoft

Musicians: Mikkel Hess and Jens Bjørnkjær

Text: Tavs Niiendam

Directing: Tue Biering

Productionmanager: Rikke Hedeager Mathiessen

Produced by The Royal Danish Theatre

PRESS RELEASE SHORT (DANISH)

I Mordets melodi stifter vi bekendtskab med den grusomme men også lattervækkende historie om seriemord på lillebyens Sonjaer. Alle mordene er ledsaget af afsyngningen af en henrivende lille fransk vise. Kan det være sanglærken Maria Valdini, der står bag nedslagtningerne? Trop op på molen og hør om det lykkes for de snarrådige politihjerner i evigt selvsving at opklare de lumske melodimord, inden alle byens Sonjaer er døde.

Skuespillerne Tina Gylling Mortensen, Jens Jacob Tychsen, Lisbeth Wulff og Rasmus Botoft lægger krop og sjæl i at betjene vindmaskine, tordenplade, ringeklokker, kaffekopper, telefoner, højhælede sko, piber, spande og glas for at skabe den rette lydflade. Musikerne Mikkel Hess og Jens Bjørnkjær svinger guitar, trommesæt og keyboard, så hele historien emmer af gys, melankoli og musikalitet.

THE ROYAL DANISH THEATRE, 2005

‘The Europeans’ was a collage of mayor european classicals concerning war, starting with Aischylos. The collage was set in a garden, translating the classical conflicts to danish everyday life. During the play quotes from modern politics were continously interwowen into the texts, blurring the distance between classical and modern. At that time Denmark was for the first time in a very long time engaged in war.

CREDITS/

Performers: Helle Fagralid, Ditte Gråbøl, Lars Mikkelsen, Mads Wille, Kristian Holm Joensen, Morten Eisner

Musicians: Mikkel Hess, Jens Bjørnkjær

Text: Aischylos, Shakespeare, Strindberg etc.

Dramaturgy: Jeppe Kristensen, Benedikte Hammershøj, Tue Biering

Directing: Tue Biering

Set-design: Christian Friedlænder

Music composer: Mikkel Hess

Lightdesign: Antonio Rodrigues Andersen

Sounddesign: Sebastian Lund

Produced by The Royal Danish Theatre

by Schiller

The Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen 2006

CREDITS/

Performers: Henning Jensen, Mads Wille, Carsten Bjørnlund, Thomas Bendixen, Thomas Corneliussen, Nukaka Coster Waldau

Text: Schiller

Directing: Tue Biering

Set-design: Nicolaj Spangaa

Lightdesign: Ulrik Gad

Sounddesign: Sebastian Lund

Stagemanager: Eva Præstiin

Produced by The Danish Royal Theatre

DAS BECKVÄRK, GLADSAXE THEATER 11 January – 15 February 2003.

About the idealistic architect who wants to build a world parliament where all people can have an equal say. Who will build it? The people, of course! Unfortunately they demand money…

Secretly, the Architect gets the necessary money from the Currency Trader, who has just made 70 billion from China’s economic collapse. Construction begins, but the Architect and the Workers do not understand each other. He wants an open house, while the people want a fortress that can keep the strangers out. The vision of world democracy develops into a bloody tragedy. The only one who understands the Architect is the country’s Princess, who has run away after a car accident and dreams of being a human being like everyone else.

Cast:

Lars Mikkelsen, Mads Wille, Ellen Nyman, Ulver Skuli Ryberg, Claus Beck-Nielsen

Text: Claus Beck-Nielsen

Instruction: Tue Biering

Set designer: Nicolaj Spangaa

a consumer comedy Jacob Weble.

It’s never nice to be locked up. Not at all if it’s after closing time in a supermarket.

Not at all if it’s in the toilet. And definitely not if you’re locked in with people you can’t stand. Nevertheless, this is the situation for four people on a Saturday afternoon just before closing time in an unusually large shopping center. In the men’s toilet under the shopping center we meet the young idealistic amateur writer (Jens Gotthelf), the bitchy consumerist woman (Berrit Kvorning), the self-sacrificing cashier (Mette Marckmann) and the buttoned-up businessman (Henrik Køhler) with a mysterious attache folder.

It quickly turns out to be no ordinary supermarket. There are big and small mistakes everywhere.

One of the more serious mistakes – if it is a mistake? – is of course that the place locks its customers after closing time in the unattractive toilet. Here, customers can then wonder

why the hand dryer makes noise like a DC-9 taking off. And why a woman’s voice on the loudspeaker keeps announcing more and more bizarre offers when the place has closed. And about who the strange person is, crawling around the place’s ventilation ducts wearing diving clothes and with price tags on the clothes.

As the weekend progresses, the scenario develops with both claustrophobia, territorial warfare and a

little bizarre toilet romance as a result.

Supermarket is an absurd, terrifying and comic piece about an abnormal consumer company that has set itself on everything and everyone. And perhaps – depending on observance –  a protest against a consumption-fixated and consumer-dominated world.

Instruction: Tue Biering

Scenography: Rasmus Jangaard

COMPANY FLYING PIGS AT THE SCHOOL FOR PERFORMING ARTS, 2000

Actor: Thomas Corneliussen

Manuscript: Thomas Corneliussen

Processing: Nicolaj Spangaa, Martin Strange Hansen

Director: Tue Biering

Set designer: Nicolaj Spangaa

Lighting design: Andreas Buhl

Sound design: Janus Jensen

Composers: Maja Romm & Mark Solborg

Dramaturg: Anne Gerd Sindballe

Produced with support from Workshopscenen, 1999