Short Description of Experiment 2

Fact, Fiction and Text

The second experiment of the Laboratory’s season 2005 – 2007 was initiated and led by the young theatre company called “Teater Polen”, who premiered with their first show, the monologue “Sleeps Well at Night” at the theatre Plan B (Copenhagen) in 2004. Among others, Theatre Polen consists of actor and dramatist Troels Thorsen, dramaturge and director Anne Müller, and dramaturge Jacob Brønnum.

The experiment “Fact, Fiction and Text” inspired the group to start with the rehearsals of Theatre Polen’s performance “Little bits of Kiwi”, premiering at Bådteatret in February 2006. Troels Thorsen has written the manuscript and performs in the show along with Pil Egholm. Anders Lundorph is the director, and Jacon Brønnum is the dramaturge.

The Laboratory hosted a week of experimenting, where the manuscript was sent through a testing machine! Since the manuscript used different fiction layers and the group was interested in using methods to fracture fiction, the experiment revolved around these issues.  
The dramaturgy and story of the play was also taken through a development and counseling session.

Troels Thorsen was given the opportunity to work in a sort of “intermission”/intermediary space between writing and rehearsing, in which he has been able to function as a dramatist and actor at the same time. The Laboratory’s process analyst and manuscript-aid was Barbara Simonsen.