Plays & Everything Theatre
07. May, 2026.
I’m currently finishing up a full length play, which means, if it’s staged, the run time will be around two hours – with an interval.
It’s a modern tragedy exploring the tension between duty, artistic ambition, brotherhood, and betrayal. All against the backdrop of an unnamed war. Like most of my writing, it’s heavy in symbolism. I can’t help it, it just happens. There are roses, a military general, a stern mother, a capitalist, death, and biblical names.
It’s self-indulgent in the sense that the story took me wherever it wanted to go. A few rewrites later, and it became a tragedy. Mary is still sad, but she won’t tell you about it.
04. April, 2025.
A rough concept drawing for the staging of Within These Walls. Sketched at early development. This is how I imagined the staging. It’s a short play where everything happens in one setting. The positioning of the props is arbitrary. The most important element, of course, are the antlers, and their dominance over the room.
25. March, 2025.
For the symbolism in Within These Walls, I was mostly inspired by the Finnish indie film He Ovat Paenneet (They Have Escaped) from 2014. I was intrigued by the animalistic elements used to portray their loss of innocence. The film itself is pretty abrasive, but the symbolism employed is direct and satisfyingly menacing. From this, the idea of using reindeer antlers was solidified.
Plays
Synopsis
After his father’s death, Lars invites his childhood sweetheart Alice to his house on Christmas Eve. But when a young missionary arrives unexpectedly, reality begins distorting. Repeated encounters and fractured stories turn the house into a site of ritual and control. As Lars struggles to distinguish between reality, belief and desire, the boundaries between past and present collapse. Within These Walls is a cyclical play about inheritance, faith, and the quiet violence of an unresolved past.
Sammendrag:
Etter farens død inviterer Lars barndomskjæresten Elise hjem til seg på julaften. Men når en ung misjonær uventet dukker opp, begynner virkeligheten å sprike. Gjentatte møter og fragmenterte fortellinger forvandler huset til et sted preget av ritualer og kontroll. Mens Lars kjemper for å skille mellom virkelighet, tro og begjær, bryter skille mellom fortid og nåtid sammen. Mellom Veggene er et syklisk stykke om arv, tro og den kvelende volden som eksisterer i en uløst fortid.