Talking in the rain - an entertaining story about the weather
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Talking in the Rain – An Entertaining Show about the Weather is a remote performance and there is no physical contact with the audience. The performance takes place in a Zoom meeting. You will receive the link after you have ordered a ticket. The performance will also send you text messages and contain a package. Therefore, you must fill in when you want to receive the package, your address and your phone number when purchasing a ticket.
Tickets must be ordered at least two days before the performance.
The language of the performance is English. Duration approximately 1.5 hours.
A remote performance by Ferske Scener (Tromsø, Norway), Reality Research Center (Helsinki, Finland) and Vestlandsforskning (Norway).
“This is what melting ice feels like. This is how hot it gets in the palm of your hand when it's 54 degrees Celsius, and here's the smell of a forest fire. Fresh Scenes offers a very physical experience of climate change. Even though the performance is completely digital.”
Dice roll 5. Anki Gerhardsen, Northern Lights
Talking in the Rain – An Entertaining Show about the Weather is a performance in your living room, where the weather gets under your skin. The performance consists of a package delivered to your door, text messages and a joint Zoom meeting, where the package is opened and the contents are put to use. It is like a talk show where the feel-good format is disrupted by wet feet, black coal and strong wind.
The idea behind the performance is simple: we relate to the weather in a personal and bodily way, while our relationship to climate is often intellectual and abstract. Talking about the weather is a grateful topic for small talk. Talking about climate and the climate crisis is a step into a war zone with predetermined political positions. With this performance we try to avoid the verbal trenches and create something that can be felt – and shared.
“It is close and engaging, it is alive and exciting, and the interaction between actors and audience also creates a community that defies and erases the physical distance we actually have between us.”
Anki Gerhardsen, Northern Lights
Artistic team:
Maria Oiva (Reality Research Center, artistic director)
Kristina Junttila (Ferske Scener, artistic director)
Kristin Eriksen Bjørn (Fresh Scenes)
Bernt Bjørn (Fresh Scenes)
Jussi Salminen (Reality Research Center)
Salla Salin
Topi Kohonen (Reality Research Center)
Ragnhild Freng Dale (Vestland Research)
Lari Palander (technical design)
Siri Hallingby Børs-Lind (producer)
Rune Nilssen (marketing)
Additional material about the performance: Backstage photos and videos, mini-essays, reflections on methodology, articles about the meeting between research and performing arts and more: can be found HERE
Talking in the rain. An Entertaining Show about the Weather is part of a multi-year collaborative project between Ferske Scener, Reality Research Center and Vestlandsforskning . The project has so far created various shows in Hammerfest (2019), Sogndal (2019) and Helsinki (2020). Now in March 2021 we are repeating the Helsinki version for a Norwegian audience. The show premiered at the international dance festival Moving in November and was supported by the Norwegian Arts Council, the Norwegian Finnish Cultural Foundation, the Norwegian Embassy in Finland, the Research Council of Norway, Helsinki City and The Promotion Center of Arts Finland.
The performances in March 2021 are supported by Tromsø Municipality.
The photos below are from Helsinki November 2020 (photo Jan Ahlstedt), Hammerfest in April-19 (photo: Ziggi Dan) and from Sogndal in September-19 (photo Christian Blom)
