The Grand Final

How to survive Doomsday

The Grand Final by Teater Fusentast (Scatterbrain Theatre) is a theatre production about doomsday. When the Apocalypse hits the idyllic town Skjønnesund (literally: Beautystrait) and doomsday is a fact, not all the citizens are as prepared.

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(Objekt ID 7121)
Object type Production
Premiere October 21, 2010
Produced by Teater Fusentast (Scatterbrain Theatre)
Coproducers Rosendal Teater, Sus i serken
Audience Adults, Youth (from 10)
Language Norwegian
Keywords Theatre
Running period Navember 11, 2010  

Requirements to venue

Blackout Yes
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The Grand Final by Teater Fusentast (Scatterbrain Theatre) was the performance celebrating the company’s 20th anniversary.

Who will be sent to heaven? Who will go the opposite way? The main character, photographer Belcampo, is captured by acute panic thinking of his somewhat untidy life.

Beautiful projecting apparatuses and a very earthly story about the citizens of Skjønnesund the very last of days make up the theme for The Grand Final. The story is revealed the way of a phantasmagoria created through Laterna Magica apparatuses from the 1800s and early 1900s, classical slide projectors from the 1950es and live broadcast via video projectors from the 2000s. The projections are combined with pre-Christian shadow theatre, contemporary puppetry and real live actors. The Grand Final is based on the short story Het Grote geburen by the Dutch writer Belcampo. But the production is played as poetry (i.e. rhyming) in Norwegian.

For 20 years the prize-awarded Dutch-Norwegian Teater Fusentast (Scatterbrain Theatre) from Trondheim has toured Norway and several other countries. Through an expression in which half forgotten puppetry techniques from earlier times are connected with subjects of current interest, the company tells its stories.

The Grand Final by Teater Fusentast (Scatterbrain Theatre) was supported by Arts Council Norway, the children and youth art initiative Kunstløftet, The Audio Visual Fund, The Fund for Performing Artists, the Torstein Erbo fund, the municipality of Trondheim, the county of Sør-Trøndelag.

The company also wants to thank the Laterna Magica expert Annet Duller, Kristin Thallaug, Teater Musiscoop by Marie Raemakers, Rob Logister and Rop Severien.

Sources: Autumn program 2010, Avant Garden.

Teater Fusentast (Scatterbrain Theatre), 2010. 

Performance dates
October 27, 2013Oslo Nye Trikkestallen, Oslo Nye Teater (Oslo New Theatre) Show
October 20, 2013Teaterhuset Avant Garden Show
October 19, 2013Teaterhuset Avant Garden Show
October 18, 2013Teaterhuset Avant Garden Show
October 17, 2013Teaterhuset Avant Garden Show
October 28, 2010Teaterhuset Avant Garden Show
October 27, 2010Teaterhuset Avant Garden Show
October 26, 2010Teaterhuset Avant Garden Show
October 24, 2010Teaterhuset Avant Garden Show
October 23, 2010Teaterhuset Avant Garden Show
October 22, 2010Teaterhuset Avant Garden Show
October 21, 2010Teaterhuset Avant Garden Worldwide premiere
Festivals (1)
Fri Figur October 27, 2013
Press coverage

Amund Grimstad, 25.10.2010, Klassekampen,  http://amund.info/2010/10/pa-dommens-dag/ 4/11-10:
"When they celebrate their anniversary they do it with the most ambitious production they have ever made, and that is not a small thing."