The Great Outdoors

At the website of Bergen International Festival the following, among other things, is written about The Great Outdoors**:

"Is the digital world becoming humankind's new planet?
With this love letter to a world in flux, US director Annie Dorsen takes us on a journey through inner space, inside an inflatable planetarium. A lone performer reads texts culled from internet comments from blogs, social networks, chat and video sites, fed through an algorithm, giving voice and body to the thoughts of countless individuals tapping away at their keyboards.

Like the stars, the comments make a certain kind of meaning on their own, and another kind entirely in constellation with others. Dorsen invites us to imagine the internet's infinite mind, and the comments as its Freudian id - unrestrained and protected by anonymity.

As the actor reads, we gather around a digital campfire under the computerized night sky, watching and listening as the world slowly winds down. Perhaps the digital landscape has its own kind of sublime potential, like nature does. After all, both are overwhelming, uncontrollable and remind us of our fragility in the face of all that is out there."

SOURCES:

Bergen International Festival, 06.04.2018, www.fib.no, http://www.fib.no/en/Programme/?TLp=1284789

BIT Teatergarasjen, bit-teatergarasjen.no, 05.04.2018, http://bit-teatergarasjen.no/program/forestillinger/annie-dorsen-the-great-outdoors/ 

Import from the Scenekunst.no list of openings 05.04.2018

**The Norwegian language text and the English language text from Bergen International Festival differ some. In this entry, Sceneweb.no quotes each text as it is on the Bergen International Festival webpage. As a result, the Norwegian and the English text do not correspond in full.