Written and directed by Rolf Alme

Performed by Piotr Misztela and Christian Hestø
Based on “The Darkness” by Barbara Wilson and Rolf Alme, W&A, www.wilson-alme.com

In this performance two young actors, Norwegian Christian Hestø and Polish Piotr Misztela, perform Shakespeare’s tragedy while constantly adding to the narrative real stories of impossible or criminalized love from our time. All the stories are sad, the themes are serious, but the form of the performance is humorous. The tragedy of all these love stories is so evident and overwhelming that we can only relate to them with the theatrical means of humor. If not, we will probably lose our will to live and our will to love whoever we want to love.

The performance is part of a visual art project: “THE DARKNESS” where the artists W&A have developed different works related to Shakespeare’s tragedy. The performance starts with an art video. It presents fragments of these performative, visual, and text-based artworks.

Duration: 1h