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September 08. WHITE BRAIN WASH in Copenhagen. From left: Johannes, Hans, Øvin, Hakan, Arfinn, Line, Paolo, Lasse, Havard, Are, Ole.
August 08. Waiting for the audience at the Teatro Vittoria in Pennabilli. One of the smallest and most charming I have ever worked in.
August 08. Group photo at the end of the workshop held in Pennabilli from the 21st to the 27th .
June 08. Beijing, Dong Hua Men market.
June 08. Beijing. Rain in front of the Forbidden City.
June 08. Instructions for hand-washing in a bathroom at Beijing University.
June 08. Out there, Shanghai, with its 18 million people.
June 08. Shanghai. One notices the new China everywhere.
Parents arrange marriages by describing their children’s best qualifications on slips of paper in a park in Shanghai. The practice is no longer binding for the sons and daughters.
June 08. Shanghai. One of our billboards.
June 08. Shanghai. Old City. A stone samurai cannot cut a living plant.
June 08. Shanghai. The scenery of ART OF DYING looks like a miniature copy of the scenery at the Lyceum Theatre.
June 2008. Shanghai. Dismantling the set after the show at the Lyceum Theatre.
May 08. In Korea with Kristjan Ingimarsson. Each of these bills is worth 50 cents. We are there to play ART OF DYING at Chuncheon Int. Mime Festival.
Chuncheon, Korea. Kristjan helps me with the noodles. My stomach is not quite suited to Korean cooking, which is largely based on fermented vegetables. After 4 days I turn to hamburgers.
January 08. Tomàs Kubinek enjoys my hand made tortellini during one of the many meals eaten over the course of the 4 months of rehearsals for DON’T LET ME DOWN.
December 07. Tomàs and Louise during an improvisation for DON’T LET ME DOWN.
November 07. Tomàs and Louise become best friends from the very first minute of rehearsals for DON’T LET ME DOWN. This was taken during a break.
October 07. A street in Porto, Portugal. We are here performing ART OF DYING.
October 07. Woman in a café in Porto, Portugal.
July 07. Touring in Ireland with THE LETTER.
July 07. Touring in Ireland. The National Rugby team “welcomes us to Shannon”...
July 07. In home of the great clown Slava Polunin, each object is a work of art.
June 07. It is exactly midnight when I land at the Narvik airport. We are performing WHITE BRAIN WASH at the Harstad festival.
May 07. It is past midnight in Stamsund, northern Norway, past the Arctic circle. We are rehearsing WHITE BRAIN WASH.
Stamsund. With Luca Ruzza, friend and set designer for WHITE BRAIN WASH. We are celebrating after hours of battle to configure the email program on my new Mac. It will later turn out we were wrong.
February 07. In Narvik meeting the team of WHITE BRAIN WASH. In the photo with me: Jan Erik, head technician; Julie, costume designer; Line, actress; Preben, producer.
February 07, Narvik. Incredible! The dried codfish contains 81.8 grams of protein.
April-May 06. On the Camino de Santiago with my son, who at the time is thirteen. We walk almost 800 km in a month.
During the Camino I come up with the main idea for DON’T LET ME DOWN, and often stop to write.
April-May 06. On the Camino de Santiago, in a small square in Leon.
April 06. Adana, Turkey. At the end of THE LETTER, I show a sign: “I apologize for the caricatures”. Everyone stands up applauding. Many cry. I have a very hard time keeping the tears back.