Sommerscene2001
For more than 20 years Copenhagen International Theatre has presented international performing
arts throughout Denmark. More than 700 ensembles from the whole world with new movements in
dance, epoch-making cultural expressions, the development of traditional drama and other new
works, has given an atmosphere of international performing arts in Denmark. Year 2001 will be no
exception. The 6th Sommerscene festival will present 2 major themes with 32 different events:
Shakespeare at Kronborg and Solo2001.
Produced by and general info:
Copenhagen International Theatre
Vestergade 5, 3.
DK - 1456 København K
Tel. (+45) 33 15 15 64
E-mail: info@kit.dk
www.kit.dk
Venues:
Kanonhallen
Østre Fælled Torv 37, Cop. Ø
Boxoffice: 3543 2021 – mon-fri 12am –4pm
MusikTeatret Albertslund
Bibliotekstorvet 1-3, Albertslund
Boxoffice: 4364 0244
Café Theatre
Skindergade 3, Kbh. K
Betty Nansen Theatre
Frederiksberg Alle 57, Frederiksberg
Vega
Enghavevej 40, Cop. V
Kronborg
Kronborgvej 20, Helsingør
Boxoffice: 4920 0811
Rosenborg Castle
Gothersgade, Cop. K
Dansescenen
Øster Fælled Torv 34, Cop. Ø
Boxoffice: 3543 2021 – mon-fri 12am-4pm
General Ticketoffice:
BILLETnet
7015 6565 – every day 10am-9pm
www.billetnet.dk
Shakespeare at Kronborg
In August, the annual Hamlet Summer Festival will present four Shakespearean productions at
Kronborg Castle, organised in co-operation with Copenhagen International Theatre. Two major
Hamlet productions will take place at a specially constructed stage at Kronborg Castle, and two
productions inspired by Shakespeare will take place in the Great Hall of the Knights.
Nekrosius & Meno Fortas (LT): Hamlet
The Courtyard of Kronborg
August 1 2 3 & 4 at 7 pm
Director Eimuntas Nekrošius returns to Denmark with a new adaptation of his Hamlet specially prepared for
the yard at Kronborg Castle. This is a Hamlet, which was hailed as the best theatre production in Europe in
1998. Nekrošius transforms Shakespeare’s text into a physical ordeal for both characters and actors in a very
sensual way. A timeless adaptation in a mixture of both dark middle age and science fiction. A drama in
which the struggle for the Danish crown becomes a magnificent symbol of the existential challenges of man.
Ticketprices: D.KR. 110-285
Steven Berkoff (UK): Shakespeare’s Villains - a masterclass in evil
The Great Hall of Knights
August 8 & 9 at 8 pm
Iago, the Macbeths, Shylock, Richard III… characters who are inherently evil, others whose
situation leads them to evil deeds, others at the mercy of an evil society. The master’s monologues
spiced very hot with incisive insights of Shakespeare’s most villainous characters by one of the
UK’s most formidable and maverick talents, Steven Berkoff.
Ticketprices: D.KR. 185-250
Birmingham Repertory Theatre (UK): Hamlet
The Courtyard of Kronborg
August 11, 12, 13 & 14 at 7.30 pm
A classic British Hamlet in which acting performance is centrally placed in a cogent, plain setting.
Nevertheless, the adaptation is a modern interpretation due to its visual strength, beautiful lightning and
auditive background, directed by former artistic leader of BRT and RSC director, Bill Alexander. Richard
McCabe is praised by The British press for his strong performance as Prince Hamlet; he convincingly makes
the well-known words sound new, bringing complexity, humanity and unpredictability to the character.
Ticketprices: D.KR. 110-285
Steven Berkoff (UK): The Secret Love Life of Ophelia
The Great Hall of Knights
August 17 & 18 at 9 pm
“The Secret Love Life of Ophelia” is Berkoff’s new dramatic piece. Here he goes beneath the
surface of Shakespeare’s text and studies the love of Ophelia and Hamlet, the sexual undertones and
premonitions of the tragic end of the two lovers.
Berkoff himself has directed the two actors on stage accompanied by a harpist. Shown in Denmark
immediately before moving to the Edinburgh festival.
Ticketprices: D.KR. 185-250
Solo2001
Solo2001 will bring you back to the very centre of performing arts. In a mainstream period of huge
productions, huge structures and events throughout almost every art forms, Solo2001 search for the
creative source: the performing artist.
Billions of people have turned the world into a mass society. Mass information, mass production,
mass destruction and mass entertainment have become everything. To stress out the relation
between the individual and the world, Solo2001 focuses on the unique performer, alone and
“naked” in front of his audience, finding his way to the motivation, the power, the knowledge and
the artistic skills he has to use: turning artistic ideas into performance.
Solo2001 will be one intense month presenting divas, the masters, the young-, the erotic-, the
provocative-, the funny- and the overwhelming performers at both outdoor and indoor venues.
Tightrope walker Didier Pasquette (F)
Rosenborg Castle
August 2 at 6 pm
After 175 years another tightrope dancer, the French Didier Pasquette will walk on the line from the
castle yard of the Royal Life Guard to the highest tower of Rosenborg Castle. This will be the
opening of Solo2001, a festival pointing out the artist who solely is in focus of the audience with his
artistic skills to show. Last time it happened the dutch tightrope dancer Roat didn’t survive…
Free entrance
Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne (CH): Max Black by Heiner Goebbels (D)
Kanonhallen
August 2 at 9 pm
A fascinating visit in the laboratory of a mad music-alchemist. Thoughts are literally flying like
fireworks through the air. The composer and music-performance artist, Heiner Goebbels has created
a unique piece of performing art out of Russian linguist, Max Black’s philosophy. André Wilms
plays a Faust look-a-like, who makes all the odd, magic and eminent images develop on stage.
Ticketprices: D.KR. 55-155
Ann Crosset (USA/DK): Orange, orange, orange… orange you glad we were thinking
in green!!!! By Robyn Orlin (South Africa)
World premiere
Kanonhallen
August 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 at 6 pm
The colourful and cutting edge performer, Ann Crosset will take you on the ride of your life.
Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen, Danny Kaye and Isadora Duncan, one of the world’s up ‘n’
coming stars of performing art, South African Robyn Orlin, has directed this trip to the land of
alienation and escapism.
Ticketprices: D.KR. 40-110
Susana Rinaldi (Argentina): Sin Etridencias
MusikTeatret Albertslund
August 3 & 4 at 8 pm
It is enough to listen to Argentinian tango diva, Susana Rinaldi to convince oneself, that the
essential spirit of the tango still exists, untouched. Mrs. Rinaldi – the National Monument of
Argentina” and Mrs. Tango herself in Finland – is one of the leading exponents of tango in the
world today. She is taking her audience with a heartbreakingly storm.
Ticketprices: D.KR. 55-195
Maya Krishna Rao (India): The Job - Based on a Bertolt Brecht short story
Dansescenen
4. & 5. august kl. 20.00
One of the great surprises of the Dancin’ World biennial last year, the Indian dancer and actress
Maya Krishna Rao is now back in Copenhagen with an interpretation of Brecht’s short story ”The
Job” - a story about gender, the depression in Germany and human knowledge. A forceful
performance based on movement, sound and text makes this piece by Maya extraordinary.
Ticketprices: D.KR. 40-110
Animal Magnetism: Cabaret Verboten
Kanonhallen
Saturdays August 4, 11, 28 & 25 at 11.30 pm
A more ”dangerous”, sensual and stimulating part of solo performance where everything can
happen – erotic night cabaret arranged by Animal Magnetism. The former princess of the land of
fairytales, Hanne Stensgaard will show what was hidden behind, when she presents both Danish and
international performance artists on stage.
Ticketprices: D.KR. 40-110
Marie Chouinard (CAN): The Solos 1978-1998
Kanonhallen
August 6 & 7 at 8 pm
Canadian Marie Chouinard has created a unique piece based on 11 solos of her from the period
1978 to 1998. Giving a dance lesson of 100 years of dance history, her magus-like wisdom of dance
gives a magical experience for the audience. The New York Times wrote: ”a Tornado of inhibited
imagination… Chouinard has brought back her marvellous menagerie of mythic beasts and orgiastic
rites in 20-year retrospective solos.”
Ticketprices: D.KR. 55-155
Citizens Theatre (UK): Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
CaféTeatret
August 7 & 9 at 8 pm
Is it pure sexual desire that makes the older respected writer so obsessed, or is it something far more
complex? Director and actor Giles Havergal makes a heartbreakingly precise and significant portrait
of a man – and a civilisation – intelligent enough to understand the link between creativity and
desire.
Ticketprices: D.KR. 40-110
Hanna Schygulla (D): Quel que soit le Songe – Texts by Fassbinder, Baudelaire a.o., music
by Jean- Marie Sénia
MusikTeatret Albertslund
9. august kl. 20.00
The Diva Hanna Schygulla is finally to be found on stage in Denmark. She sings her choice of
Brecht/Weill songs in ”Brecht here and now” and lyrics by Fassbinder, Baudelaire amongst others
to music by Jean-Marie Sénia in ”Quel que soit le Songe”. This is a must for everybody who wants
to be seduced by one of the greatest female stars of cinema history.
Ticketprices: D.KR. 55-195
Nigel Charnock (UK): Fever – with livemusic by Michael Riessler (D)
Kanonhallen
August 9 & 11 at 9 pm
Founder and former DV8 dancer Nigel Charnock performs in a speed of 220 km/h, when he as
body-poet and word-dancer turns the sonnets of Shakespeare into an all mingled up stand-up
comedy, dance and theatre performance. When the string quartet and saxophone hit the first blue
note of the acid jazzed wallpaper of the performance, Charnock starts an hour of stage madness as
wild as young feverish blood. Die Welt wrote: ”He was feverish for an hour, all the time driven
and pushed forward by the Sonnets of Shakespeare”
Ticketprices: D.KR. 40-110
Hanna Schygulla (D): Brecht here and now - songs by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill
MusikTeatret Albertslund
August 10 at 8 pm
The Diva Hanna Schygulla is finally to be found on stage in Denmark. She sings her choice of
Brecht/Weill songs in ”Brecht here and now” and lyrics by Fassbinder, Baudelaire amongst others
to music by Jean-Marie Sénia in ”Quel que soit le Songe”. This is a must for everybody who wants
to be seduced by one of the greatest female stars of cinema history.
Ticketprices: D.KR. 55-195
Franko B (I/UK): You Make My Heart Go Boom Boom
World premiere
Dansescenen
August 11 at 8 pm
World premiering Franko B’s coming performance, Solo2001 will present a unique event in
Copenhagen, when the naked Live-Art performer will paint a stage image with his blood dripping
from his arms on a special designed bed of light.
Ticketprices: D.KR. 40-110
The Red Room (UK): The Bogus Woman
Betty Nansen Theatre
August 15 & 16 at 8 pm
From a war torn African state to conflict in a British Detention Centre, The Bogus Woman following a young African journalist and poet seeking asylum – is a gut-wrenching testimony to the
abuse of human rights. A human document brilliantly performed. Rarely theatre generates crying
people among the audience. This does!
Ticketprices: D.KR. 55-155
PS122 Field Trips (USA): NYC Uncovered
Kanonhallen
August 15, 16 & 17 at 9 pm
Performance artist Lucy Sexton and Dancenoise will be the host and present a wide flutter of
performance, media, theatre, dance and spoken word artists from New York. Solo2001 curator and
artistic director of P.S. 122 for 15 years, Mark Russell has created a whole evening cabaret with the
best of the young artists, who have been staged at his Performance Space.
Ticketprices: D.KR. 40-110
Sarah Jones (USA): Surface Transit
Café Theatre
August 16 & 18 at 22 pm
Taking both Downtown and Broadway with a storm, the young comet Sarah Jones comes to
Copenhagen with “Surface Transit” - a series of riveting, hip hop influenced performance sketches
of ordinary people. This multi-talented performer is a major star on rise. Be sure to catch her now!
Ticketprices: D.KR. 40-110
Steve Colman (USA): A Stevening of poetry
Café Theatre
August 17 at 22 pm & August 19 at 20 pm
Hip-hop slam poet Steve Colman is straightforward and entertaining in his crossover activist and
rhythmic based performance. As director of The Nuyorican Touring Company he started out giving
the stage art a new dimension performing words that usually are to be found at libraries.
Ticketprices: D.KR. 40-110
Khan (SF/TR/USA) Feat. special guest Julee Cruise (USA)
Vega
August 18 at 9 pm
”I built this machine that will play my machines for me….” The Provocateur, Khan is one of
ambient’s most innovative producers today after several techno smash hits. As Diamanda Galas
says: ”Turkish brother homopsychotic Khan is very disturbed – all the better for our mutual
enemies.” In his usual cabaret style he presents ”Me and my minidisc” with special guests just after
touring his latest CD release ”No Comprendo”, bringing together artists like Diamanda Galas and
Twin Peaks siren Julee Cruise as lead vocalists.
Ticketprices: D.KR. 55-155
Cesc Gelabert (E/D): Im (Goldenen) Schnitt I – by Gerhard Bohner to music by Bach
Dansescenen
August 18 & 20 at 8 pm
As Bach went through the keys in his ”Well-tempered Clavichord”, Bohner went through the body
from head to toe, using the spatial arrangements of visual artist Vera Röhm in order to grasp the
elemental possibilities of bodily and dancerly action. The choreography struck Gelabert enormously
when he watched Bohner dance the piece himself. Now Gelabert has recreated “Im (Goldenen)
Schnitt I” as homage to the dead master.
Ticketprices: D.KR. 40-110
Staceyann Chin (Jamaica): Unspeakable Things
Café Theatre
August 22 & 24 at 22 pm
Theatre meets poetry in an explosion of politics within the personal, when Staceyann Chin enters
the stage with her hardcore lesbian and half vegetarian one-woman show. She is now on her way
with her memoirs at the Penguin Press.
Ticketprices: D.KR. 40-110
Taylor Mali (USA): Teacher! Teacher!
Café Theatre
August 23 & 25 at 22 pm
After he has won his third National Poetry Slam Championship, slam-king Taylor Mali has now
created a one-man show called ”Teacher! Teacher!” To watch Mali is to watch a full-body poetic
assault – with humour as his central weapon.
Ticketprices: D.KR. 40-110
William Yang (Kina/Aus): Friends of Dorothy
Kanonhallen
August 24 & 26 at 8 pm
Yang is an eminent social and cultural commentator and one of the most respected artists in
Australia. “Friends of Dorothy” is a powerful story about the development from sexual freedom in
the 70ies to the paranoia of the 90ies. His insightful monologues and slide projection based
performance in “Blood Links” exposes his journey around the world getting to know the hugely
extended family, that he became aware of at his mother’s funeral.
Ticketprices: D.KR. 40-110
William Yang (Kina/Aus): Blood Links
Kanonhallen
August 25 & 27 at 8 pm
Yang is an eminent social and cultural commentator and one of the most respected artists in
Australia. “Friends of Dorothy” is a powerful story about the development from sexual freedom in
the 70ies to the paranoia of the 90ies. His insightful monologues and slide projection based
performance in “Blood Links” exposes his journey around the world getting to know the hugely
extended family, that he became aware of at his mother’s funeral.
Ticketprices: D.KR. 40-110
Jan Fabre (B): Double bill
Kanonhallen
August 29 30 & 31 at 8 pm
Double bill created and choreographed by the Belgian performance artist Jan Fabre for a female and
a male dancer, stressing out the brutish nature of human beings and civilisation.
Erna Omarsdottir (Iceland): My movements are alone like streetdogs
As the Collector needles up the capture for studies, Fabre rips open a Western culture and brings it
into play through Icelandic dancer Erna Omarsdottir’s amazing street dog of a character. Watched
by a timeless clock – or is it the eye of an insect - she is searching for spirituality between sexual
rashness and bulimia.
Wim Vandekeybus (B): Body, body on the wall
The relation between a male dancer and a photographer is the metaphor for the relation between the
performer and the audience telling about the body and the consciousness of being consumed.
Written and directed by Fabre himself in close collaboration with dancer and choreograph,
Vandekeybus, this piece is a strong finish of an evening in the name of Fabre. A meeting of two
modern masters.
Ticketprices: D.KR. 55-155
Hollandia (NL): Voices
Venue to be announced at www.kit.dk
August 30 & 31 at 20.00
Actor Jeroen Willems delivers a mesmerising performance in this internationally acclaimed
production based on writings of Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini and extracts from speeches
by Cor Herkströter, former chairman of Shell International.
Ticketprices: D.KR. 40-110