Kilden Kultur presents Susie Wang's Burnt Toast
BURNT TOAST
After the success of Licht und Liebe produced here in Kilden, Susie Wang is back to entertain and challenge us with her elegant and grotesque theater fiction. This time we find ourselves in a hotel lobby somewhere in the South...
Betty is at reception, Violet is waiting for her luggage and Danny is asking for a map. Everyone is longing for love.
- We are here, says Betty and draws a circle around the hotel.
- Not so fast, says Danny.
(pause)
- And this is the zoo.
- Oh.
- Would you like to go there?
- How did you know, says Danny.
- Body language, says Betty.
Of course it's great to be human, but just because we have consciousness doesn't mean we don't have nature. Culture has got it wrong when it tries to run away from nature. The faster we run, the harder the crash when we meet. And what we left as the Garden of Eden is now coming towards us as a true hell. Perhaps it's best to play dead. Susie Wang plays both dead and alive, as naturally as she can.
In just a few years, Susie Wang has established itself as one of Norway's most distinctive theater companies. They come from a performance-oriented and so-called reality-based performing arts, but with Susie, their work has taken a dramatic turn -they have broken with prevailing trends and created a completely unique form of theater fiction with exciting storylines and impressive illusions.
Burnt Toast premiered at Black Box Teater in 2020 to rave reviews.
"Susie Wang's latest horror production "Burnt Toast" is something as rare as existential B-movie splat theater for adults."
-Afternoon post
"This has never been shown on a theater stage before!" I heard several people say independently in the crowd after the performance. (...) There is something timeless, old-fashioned about the expression, a combination of something grotesquely transgressive and finely tuned theatrical. All elements and details fit together like perfectly tuned pieces of a puzzle."
-Scenekunst.no
"Susie Wang repeats and exemplifies at her sharpest until there is only breath and pulse left to hear."
-Shakespeare Journal
