Odin Teatret by Ledger Adam J

Author:Ledger, Adam J. [Ledger, Adam J.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781137284471
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Monographs
Published: 2012-05-03T16:00:00+00:00

This blurs the actor and the character, as if Nagel Rasmussen speaks to the past and the dead through the shaman, a figure who can warp time and speak to other worlds.

Elsewhere, Nagel Rasmussen’s account of her performance as the mute Kattrin in Brecht’s Ashes mirrors her own ‘muteness’ when first joining Odin Teatret. Near the conclusion to the performance, Nagel Rasmussen wonders, ‘since I, as an actor, started to feel myself as a whole, I apparently lost the ability to speak. Was that the price I had to pay to find my own language?’ (Itsi Bitsi). Despite her long work on voice, this reveals Nagel Rasmussen’s troubled relationship with speech, something she describes in the solo performance White as Jasmine, too.

The performance is especially clear and strong visually. Nearly all of Nagel Rasmussen’s text is allied to dynamic score material, and one long sequence uses a blindfold with long pieces of cloth that allow Ferslev to ‘control’ Nagel Rasmussen during her own story:

We were heading towards a new open society. Away with weapons. Forward with fellowship and warmth in the community. The post-war political ice was melting. We were so many and we breathed and breathed on that glacier to help it give birth. And it did give birth – to the flower children, to folk music, to beat music, to new ways of dressing, to new words. (Itsi Bitsi)

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