Reviews – Light and Love (Susie Wang)
Reviews – Light and Love (Susie Wang)
PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR 2020
Dagsavisen:“Critics’ Favorites from the 2020 Theater Season”
Norwegian Shakespeare Journal: “Performances of the Year 2020”
PERFORMING ARTS: HOSTS WHO WON'T LEAVE
A HOUSE, A GARDEN, A SHINING SUN. IT'S A FRESHLY COMBED NIGHTMARE. AND SUSIE WANG CREATES MAGNIFICENT THEATER.
“Few things can seem more frightening than the almost-normal—that slight deviation from a regulated, safe reality that can make you doubt everything. And it is in this gap between what we see and what we feel that Susie Wang allows her performance to take shape.”
Read the full review in Scenekunst here (subscription required).
THE CLASS STRUGGLE: THE DISCOMFORT OF EXISTENCE
AN ENTERTAINING AND ALMOST UNNERVINGLY MANIPULATIVE EXPLORATION OF WHAT PEOPLE ARE CAPABLE OF IN EXTREME SITUATIONS.
“Even more compelling is what they manage to do to us as an audience in such a short time, when, after just over an hour, we accept and allow ourselves to be entertained by what is, in essence, completely unimaginable.”
Read the full review in Klassekampen here (subscription required).
Read the full review here without paywall (reviewer's blog)
DAGSAVISEN: WHEN PARADISE STRIKES BACK
DO YOU MISS BEING ABLE TO GO ON VACATION TO THE SOUTH? SUSIE WANG’S NEW THEATER PRODUCTION, “LICHT UND LIEBE,” WILL QUICKLY CURED THAT LONGING.
“Licht und Liebeis a world premiere from one of Norway’s most stylistically sophisticated theater companies, which extensively combines the familiar with the eerie, and beauty with the shameful and repulsive.”
Read the full review in Dagsavisen here (subscription required).
UNIQUE: IT DRAWS YOU INTO AN ABSURD WORLD YOU WISH YOU HAD NEVER SEEN.
SUSIE WANG SUCCESSFULLY DRAWS YOU INTO HER WILD UNIVERSE; YOU’LL FEEL EMBARRASSED, UNCOMFORTABLE, AND UNCERTAIN ABOUT WHETHER TO LAUGH, CRY, OR THROW UP.
“The most impressive thing has to be the actors’ stage presence. Their intense immersion makes the audience experience this bizarre illusion as a form of reality.”
Read the full review in Unikum here (open article).
NORWEGIAN SHAKESPEARE JOURNAL: THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS
SUSIE WANG AT KILDEN LIKE A SLASHER MOVIE. NOT JUST BECAUSE OF THE HORROR, BLOOD, AND GALGENHUMOR, BUT ALSO BECAUSE THE PERFORMANCE CREATES AN ILLUSORY UNIVERSE JUST LIKE IN THE MOVIES. WHEN THE BREAK COMES, WE SEE THE ABYSS IN THE ILLUSION IN EVERY WAY.
Read the full review in *Norsk Shakespearetidsskrift* here (subscription required).