The Man with the Flower in His Mouth

The Man with the Flower in His Mouth (2007) by d-moor, text by Luigi Pirandello. The Man with a Flower in His Mouth was a theatre production opening with two men meeting each other for the first time. They are in a café open during night hours, and begin to talk about seemingly trivial things. During the conversation unease spreads slowly and a woman show up to provoke bitter confessions and racy revelations.

Information

(Objekt ID 883)
Object type Production
Premiere October 9, 2007
Produced by D-Moor Productions
Based on The Man with the Flower in His Mouth by Luigi Pirandello
Audience Youth, Adults (from 14)
Language Norwegian
Keywords Theatre, Dance, Chamber play, Tragicomedy/Seriocomedy
Running period 2007  
Website D-MOOR Company: tidligere produksjoner

Requirements to venue

Rigging time 180 minutes
Downrigging time 60 minutes
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The Man with the Flower in His Mouth is a one-act play by Luigi Pirandello. It was translated to Norwegian for the occasion by director Jørn Riegels Vimpel.

Besides the well-known Six Characters in Search of an Author, it is not often that we see Pirandello's texts performed on the Norwegian stage. Director Jørn Riegels Vimpel has returned to Norway after seven years in Italy, and has brought with him a new translation and dramatisation of Pirandello's play The Man with the Flower in His Mouth from 1923.

This one-act is a compact and direct theatre performance in which one can clearly sense Pirandello's penetrating existential voice. This dramatisation of the piece balances on the border between reality and the beyond. The situation is clear - it is a triangle drama with one woman and two men - but it is far from realism. The dialogue can be called realistic, but what we see could never have taken place. Yet even so, this piece points towards a reality we all recognize.

The Man with the Flower in His Mouth was supported by Arts Council Norway, The Audio Visual Fund, The Italian Cultural Institute in Oslo and The Fund for Performing Artists.

Source:

d-moor, dmoor.com, 15.11.2010, http://dmoor.com/past_prod.php?lang=no

Contributors (6)
Name Role
Luigi Pirandello – Playwright
Robin Riegels – Translation
Robin Riegels – Direction
Electa Woodbridge Behrens – Actor
Rasmus Jørgensen – Actor
Nils Petter Mørland – Actor
Performance dates
Navember 14, 2008Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) Show
February 24, 2008Lille scene (Marstrandgata), Black box teater Show
February 23, 2008Lille scene (Marstrandgata), Black box teater Show
February 22, 2008Lille scene (Marstrandgata), Black box teater Show
February 21, 2008Lille scene (Marstrandgata), Black box teater Show
Navember 8, 2007St. Croix-huset, Fredrikstad Show
October 19, 2007Asker Kulturhus Show
October 18, 2007Asker Kulturhus Show
October 9, 2007Amfisal, Nøtterøy Kulturhus Opening night