Original Play
Performed at
Husets Teater
Premiered
2015


NY Theatre Wire "The details of this tale are gradually revealed through the questioning of the Judge who functions as the Narrator while the other characters testify, narrate, remember, deny, and undergo the emotional trauma by partially reenacting or reimagining events of their entanglements. The language vacillates between courtroom matter-of-fact statements and poetic reflections that evoke the Icelandic seascape and the psychic landscape of passion. The Narrator/Judge, now old, re-visits this case over which he had presided as a young man, owns the poetic reflections and closes the play with a beautiful... elegy. Throughout the play, he utters a repeated phrase (with minor variations): “Everything merges with nature, men, sheep, birds…” The dramatic irony of the play is that the characters remain largely isolated from one another, physically on stage, as well as psychologically, despite their terrible entanglement."