Actor and director hard at work in Trondheim

The rehearsals are now on their way before the performance of "the Blessed" in Trondheim. The actor Fredrik Hermansen and the director Trond Peter Stamsø Munch are hard at work at Prropellen Theaters rehearsalspace at Bispehaugen.
  Through this the text is back where it was developed - together With Propellen Teater, and we are looking forward to it meeting the audience in this sunday.
  Photo: Trond Peter Stamsø Munch.

"the Blessed " is ready for Trondheim

In Collaboration with the Palestine Commity in Trondheim we will perform "the Blessed" at Kulturtorget at Trondheim Folkebibliotek at 19.00 on the 16th of September.
   After the performance, Peder Martin Lysestøl, will present the latest news on Israely lageslations and the impact it has on the people living in East- Jerusalem.
  This spring the performance drew a full house and warm ovations at Rådstua Teaterhus in Tromsø.
 The Picture is of the houses that the conflict this performance centres around. Two Israely settlements on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. The Picture is taken by Lisen Lie the autumn of 2017.
  All though the performance "the Blessed" is fiction i fiction, it is inspired and partly based on a real murder that took Place in Jericho in 2006.
  After this - the performance will travel to Oslo and the festival MOTforestillinger where it will be performed this spring.

Full house and ovations at the opening night of "the Blessed"

The house was sold out and the ovations was warm for the first showing of "the Blessed" at Rådstua Teaterhus in Tromsø.
  The performance was followed by an introduction into the situation in Jerusalem at the moment, and a conversation between the NOOR Production team, represented by playwright Tale Næss and director Trond Peter Stamsø Munch.
  The next performance will take place in Trondheim in September.
  Lots of thanks to Our wonderful audience, to Rådstua Teaterhus and to our co-producers, Vennskapsforeningen Gaza-Tromsø.
  In Trondheim we will collaborate With the Palestine Comitee. We are looking forward to the collaboration.

You can read Knut Boruds talk about the situation in Jerusalem here. His speech was in Norwegian.

Hvem eier Jerusalem – Hvordan er situasjonen i dag?

Til innledning av samtale etter «Den Velsignede» 6. april 2018.

Tickets available for "the Blessed"

 

 

You can now buy Your tickets for the performance "the Blessed" in Tromsø at 18.00 - on the 6th of April at Rådstua in Tromsø.

Use this link:http://www.raadstua.no/arrangementer/den-velsignede

There is a limited amount of tickets.

Photo from the rehearsels by Sabina Jacobsson.


With reasent support from the Norwegian organization supporting freedom of speech

- Fritt Ord and the arts fund Fond for Lyd og Bilde, - is NOOR produksjoner now fast apraoching the first stages of production of the monologue "the Blessed".
  The opening night will be in Tromsø on the 6th of April, during the anual Gaza week.
  Fredrik Hermansen will act the part, and the scenographer, video designer and artist Sabina Jacobsson will be respondible for the visuals.
  The photo in this post is hers`.
  For more see: http://www.sabina.no/

Today NOOR produksjoner joins the protest against Trumps recogition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in Trondheim

NOOR produksjoners Tale Næss has written this poem, here in a rough English translation. And it was read at a protest gathering in Tordenskjoldparken today, at 13.30 in Trondheim by NOOR produksjoners Trond Peter Stamsø Munch.

JERUSALEM

 

There is no claim to ownership

for that who belong to us all

If your walls tumble

Jerusalem
prayers will raise from the ground in Aramaic

in Arabic

in German and French

Poem protesting Trumps recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel

JERUSALEM

 

Ingen kan eie deg

Om murene faller

vil bønner skyte opp fra grunnen

på tysk, på arabisk og arameisk

 

After three days of intense workshopping and a sensitive and strong reading at Oslo National Academy of the Arts yesterday on the 8th of November in Oslo - the festival MOTforestillinger writes (in Norwegian): "Tusen takk til alle involverte for en nydelig og sterk lesning og samtale på KHiO i går! Vi gleder oss til lesningen fra tekstene dramatikerne har skrevet i løpet av Collective Workshop på førstkommende lørdag kl.14.15, Egal teater i Munkedamsveien 80.
   We in NOOR produksjoner feels priveledge for once more to be able to collaborate With MOTforestillinger - and for the opportunity to hoste this artistic meetingplace and think-tank between Palestinian and Norwegian writers. Thanks also to the actors for joining us on the last day for the reading
  We will post extracts from this texts on this blog - and if anyone are interested in Reading more, please do not hesitate to contact us.

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MOTforestillinger

Yet again NOOR productions collaborate with the festival MOTforestillinger that will take place in Oslo on the weekend of the 11th and 12th of November.
Today the poster for the festival is ready.
It is made by Chris Reddy

The festival will take place at Egal Teater, Munkedamsveien 80.
It offer readings, performances and NOOR will be arranging a collective writing workshop for Palestinian and Norwegian playwrightes at Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
  The workshop will be lead by NOOR productions Tale Næss.

New production on the way for NOOR productions

Today we are one step closer to making our next production "the Blessed" a reality. With support from Fond for Lyd og Bilde and Tromsø City Counsil, we hope to be able to have our opening night this winter. The production is a monologue based on true events: A murder of a palestinian man from east Jerusalem that took place in Jericho in 2006. The murder happened after he sold his land on the Olive Mount to Jewish settlers. How could he sell this land? Why was he murdered? And why did he go to Jericho when he knew this could mean danger? Even a treath on his life?
The monologue is written by NOOR productions playwright Tale Næss (picture to the left) and is about family roots, love and betrayal.

The team will consist of Fredrik Hermansen (picture to the right) who will play the title role. Visuals will be handled by Sabrina Jacobsson, and NOOR productions Trond Peter Stamsø Munch will direct the play.

The play will be produced in collaboration with Gaza Week Tromsø and the festival MOTforestillinger, and we hope to be able to perform in Tromsø, Oslo and Trondheim

So far the production has been financed by Fond for Lyd og Bilde and Tromsø City Counsil.

Poems with settings from the Middle Eastern conflict on stage in Bogota

From the 3rd til the 9th of May NOOR productions Tale Næss was one of two guests at the specially focused edition of Bogota International Poetry Festival.
  The focus followed to strands. One was the topic of peace - and the other on contemporary norwegian poetry.
  Næss`poetry was written after several journeys in the Middle East and reflects the conflict there and the strain it lies on the individuals sovereignty over her own life and her abillity to express herself.
  Underneath is an interview by Næss, written for the festivals web page and magazine. The interview is en spanish and english.

Which relationships do you think there are between poetry and peace?

I consider peace the foundation that all public life. It`s what free citicenship is built upon.
Considero que la paz es la fundación de toda vida pública. Sobre la paz está construída la libertad ciudadana.
It’s the space from where freedom can be built. The freedom to feel, to raise ones
La paz es el espacio desde el cual la libertad puede ser construída. La libertad de sentir, de expresar la opinion de cada uno, de expresar los sentimientos de uno artísticamente en tiempos de Guerra d

Tromsø Counsil supports NOOR productions

Tromsø Counsil supports NOOR productions projects "Sweatshop" and "the Blessed".
  We hope to raise enough fonds to start rehearsels next spring.
  Sabrina Jacobsen is now a part of the team on "the Blessed" as a light designer and scenographer. Fredrik Hermansen will play the main part and we are cooporating with Gaza week in Tromsø and the anual festival MOTforestillinger.
  The photograph is from the garden of getshemane in Jerusalem.
 

14th of december and a 1000 lights

On the 14th of December 2016 people all over Norway took to the streets to show their support for refugees all over the world. In Tromsø Amnesty and Redd Barna was two of the organizers and they asked NOOR productions Tale Næss to write a text for the occation.
  The text was read by the actor Marius Lien.
 

 

"Sweatshop" - a fruitful workshop at KHiO

This autumn the project "Sweatshop" received funding for project development.
  The project is based on true events.
  On the 6th of january the english newspaper Guardian wrote :
Turkish police have uncovered a factory producing fake lifejackets, shining a light on a booming cottage industry that has emerged as a byproduct of the refugee crisis and heightened the risks for those hoping to reach Europe by sea.
Police allegedly seized 1,263 lifejackets filled with non-buoyant materials from an illegal workshop in Izmir that employed two Syrian children, according to Agence France-Presse and Dogan news agencies.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/06/refugee-crisis-turkish-police-find-factory-making-fake-lifejackets-izmir
  Since then NOOR productions dramatist Tale Næss has been working on a script telling the story about the life wests and the girl producing them.
  Næss is a Research Fellow at Oslo National Academy of the Arts the Theatre Department, and this november a workshop was held on the text she is developing inspired by the events in Izmir.
  Three dancers, a director and three actors took part in the workshop that explored the meetingpoint between theatre and dance, storytelling and situations, playacting and recitation.

"Where the children sleep"

NOOR productions Tale Næss has been invited to present a reading of her short play "Where the children sleep" at the SAND-festival in Kristiansand.
  Playwright and dramaturge Tale Næss has written a dramatic and lyrical text based on Magnus Wennman’s photo report about refugee children. As the text is being performed, the performers seek to address the audience in a direct and open fashion – hoping to establish a room where the audience, the performers, the text and the facts it represents will come together as a common experience. Not as a text being performed in front of an audience, but as shared experience by a communal “we”. The project Der barna sover/Where children sleep is a part of Tale Næss work as an Artistic Research Fellow at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, the Theatre Department.
  

The reading is performed in Norwegian.

NOOR produksjoner presents their project at MOTforestillinger

NOOR produksjoners Trond Peter Stamsø Munch presents NOOR's plans and productions. He explanes it as art as activism and activism as art.

MOTforestillinger is a festival that celebrates artivism – activist art and the art of activism – a force that can never be silenced. It offers a stage for artists who through their work express a necessary critique of Zionist ideology and government, its military policies and the occupation of Palestine.
The festival explore different ways art and activism confronts the occupation regime. It asks: What can we in civil society do in the struggle for a truly just solution in the Israel/Palestine conflict?
  MOTforestillinger was held for the first time in January 2015, as a response to the Norwegian National Theatre’s participation in the project “Terrorisms”, in which the Israeli National Theatre, Habima, also took part. Habima performs regularly in illegal settlements in the West Bank.
  NOOR produksjoners Tale Næss participated as a moderator and her poetry was presented. Here she reads her own poem "to Gaza on the 31st of July", together with the palestinian author Akram Musallam. The poem was read in english and arabic.

NOOR produksjoner cooperates with the festival MOTforestillinger

MOTforestillinger was held for the first time in January 2015, as a response to the Norwegian National Theatre’s participation in the project “Terrorisms”, in which the Israeli National Theatre, Habima, also took part. Habima performs regularly in illegal settlements in the West Bank.
MOTforestillinger is a festival that celebrates artivism – activist art and the art of activism – a force that can never be silenced. It offers a stage for artists who through their work express a necessary critique of Zionist ideology and government, its military policies and the occupation of Palestine.
We explore different ways art and activism confronts the occupation regime. What can we in civil society do in the struggle for a truly just solution in the Israel/Palestine conflict?
The participants address issues that never were included in the so-called peace process and the Oslo Accords: The occupation and ethnical cleansing of Palestine (Nakba), the refugees right of return, the human rights situation and Israeli apartheid.
  NOOR productions participates in the festival in many ways. To see the full program go to: https://motforestillinger.wordpress.com/

"Where the children sleep" at Scenetekstivalen and at Vega Scene

On the 27th og April NOOR productions Tale Næss' short play "Where the children sleep" was performed as a part of the festival for new playwrighting, Scenetekstivalen in Tromsø.
  The play was performed in a sircular space with four adult and four child actors.
  The play has as its startingpoint a photograpic reportage in Aftonbladet, that entails pictures of refugee childrens asleep during their travels into Europe, and short interviews with children on the run. See: http://darbarnensover.aftonbladet.se/ . The photo is from Aftonbladet.
  The short play is to be produced  by Norwegian boradcastings Radioteateret, and was invited to be read at Vega Scene on the 14th of May.
  The reading involved actors and children and were a part of the establishment of Vega Scene as a new independent stage for arthouse movies and contemporary playes. Performances, debates and showing with urgent topics at its core will be at the heart of the activities for Vega Scene.
  These photos are from Tale Næss' reading.

NOOR productions` Tale Næss opens the exhibition "Uprooted"

On the 23rd of May 2016 Tale Næss opened the exhibition "Uprooted" at Perspektivet Museum in Tromsø with her poem "Welcome".
  The exhibition is produced by Magnum photo ans shows pictures of refugees trailing a period of over 60 years, from the people of Finmark fleeing their villages and towns at the end of world war 2, til the massive refugee crises today.
 

NOOR productions Tale Næss` poem to be published in a Gaza anthology

The poem Gaza 31st of july is now translated into arabic - and is to be published in an anthology in Gaza in 2016:

لأجلك يا غزة

٣١ من تموز ٢٠١٤

ليس حجم التابوت ما يهم

ولا حجم القلب

ولا يهم حجم الحذاء

أو الجوارب

ولا القدم التي ترتديهما

هذه الأذن

وتلك اليد الصغيرة

وكل ما تلامسه:

العشب

الطوب

الغبار

ليس حجم التابوت ما يهم

ولا الجسد الذي يحويه

ولا الطريقة التي يخفض بها للدفن