Rage (2017)

Fury by Elfriede Jelinek

In collaboration with the literary festival Ordkalotten, we at Ferske Scener have been given rare permission to do a reading of Jelinek's latest text. Three actors and a percussionist will tackle the text in an improvised and musical live stage text performance in front of the audience. This is the first time Raseri has been performed in Norway.

Rage (written in 2015) takes its starting point from the attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and the Jewish market in Paris in January 2015. What lies behind such destructive rage? Jelinek responds with a collective of voices and goes to the Greek myths, to the Iliad but also to the rage of today's jihadists, Europeans and finally herself. Where did it start? Who is the right god? Do we need one?

Jelinek's text is wild, uncomfortable, transcendent and direct. It is an acknowledgement that rage exists within us all and that we need these powers.

The event is based on Mia Tellander's Swedish translation of the play for the production at Borås City Theatre in March 2017, the only production in the Nordic countries so far.