Norway.Today
by Igor Bauersima Translation by Anna Kohler

Canadian Premiere

September 5-21, 2008
Opening Night September 9 - Reception at Tarragon Included!
Tarragon Extra Space
Buy tickets online here or call Tarragon Theatre at 416.531.1827

Starring: Steven McCarthy and Ieva Lucs

“This bitter-sweet tragicomedy, about suicide, life, the universe and nothing, is an experience no serious theatregoer should miss.” – Steven Davenport (Indaily Australia)

Theatre Smash presents the Canadian premiere of the critically-acclaimed global sensation, Norway.Today. Since its premiere in late 2000 at the Düsseldorf Play House, Norway.Today has been staged more than 200 times around the world and has been translated into 25 languages.

Based on a true story, Norway.Today is an existential romantic comedy about two lost souls searching for the meaning of life in death. Julie and August meet when Julie announces her intention to take her life in an internet chat room – and issues a challenge for someone to join her. August responds and they meet atop Pulpit Rock, a 2000 ft. cliff in Norway. On this last evening of their lives, the lines of life and virtual reality are blurred, and they discover that some things in life might just be scarier than jumping off a cliff.

Bauersima won the Audience Award in 2001 for best playwright at the Mühlheim Theater Days Festival, and was named best new dramatist by Theater Heute. Critic Svenja Klaucke declared: “Bauersima has caught the feelings of the web generation with precision. Almost like a Beckett for today - artful and complex, simple and humorous.” (Süddeutsche Zeitung).

Creative Team:
Director: Sarah Baumann
Producer: Ashlie Corcoran

Set & Costume Designer:  Robin Fisher
Lighting Designer:  Michael Walton
Sound Designer:  Michael Laird
Video Designer:  Romeo Candido
Composer:  Joshua Van Tassel
Stage Manager:  Kinnon Elliott
Production Manager:  Kate Ann Vandermeer
Technical Director:  Stefan Lenzi

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