Reviews Culpa! in a state of emergency

Actor Kevin Mbugua in Culpa! in a state of emergency

Morgenbladet: Theater in your pocket

Kilden teater has moved the youth performance Culpa out of the schoolyard and onto Youtube. It creates a whole new theater experience.

What I'm fascinated by is the form that language and 360-degree technology together create.

Read the full review from Morgenbladet here.

Dramatists Association: Not made to be seen alone

What does the corona crisis do to those of us who are passionate about film and performing arts?

Mariken Lauvstad highlights Kilden Theatre's new production Culpa! as a good example of successful digital theater.

Read the full review from Dramatikerforbundet here.

Performing arts: The unity of time, place and action

The performing arts field is staggering along the Corona road while chanting the frightening, incomprehensible mantra digitalization, digitalization, digitalization. Culpa! I state of emergency is a valiant attempt to find a form that matches the situation.

(...) Culpa! In a state of emergency is nevertheless an exciting formal innovation that attracts attention from country to country. There is something heroic about the project. It is characterized by a fighting, desperate energy that penetrates the digital barriers, even to me, who is some distance away from the target group.

Read the full review from Scenekunst here.

Stage conversations (podcast)

In episode 6, the theme is performing arts and the lockdowns during corona.

How have we dealt with the closed theaters? Culpa! in a state of emergency is cited as an example.

Listen to the podcast here.

Klassekampen: Street theater in the can

Intense and driving with good text, but not quite up to scratch technically.

Inspired by Bjørneboe's 1966 poem "Mea Maxima Culpa" (My Great Guilt), director Mine Nilay Yalcin got slam poet Taro Vestøl Cooper to write a new and modernized text for young people in the first half of their teens.

Read the full review in Klassekampen here (abo).

Norwegian Shakespeare Journal: I could have done the usual browsing on my tablet

Actors Ann Ingrid Fuglestveit, Jenny Ellegård, Kevin Mbugua and Fredrik Høstaker come around the camera corner in Teletubbies colors, in what will be the half-hour version of the youth performance "Culpa! in a state of emergency". And there will be exceptions.

Read the full review on Norsk Shakespearetidsskrift here.