It was november (2008)

It  was November is a performance based on the motive of the collector.  What do we regard as the most important collector's object? Not only to  us as individuals but also to mankind, in other words in an overall  perspective.

What do our lives evolve around: sounds, objects,  movements, - memories? Within the frame of a seven days' intense and  fragile gathering the people seem to not get out of the situation they  are in. In an almost Tsjekhovian atmosphere of longing for a change the  characters are apparently communicating with each other, but the  dialogues are monologues in disguise. We are all holding our breath and  hoping for something to happen, which is underlined by the music,  monotonous in an energetic way, making everything sad and beautiful, and  almost calm.

The whole thing starts off with a disturbing solo  performed blindly. What does she see? Something beyond the limits of  the room? Some secret that will tear every illusion apart? One of the  characters seems to be more aware of the freedom of entrapment, the  possibility of multiple personalities: the lost child, the playmaker,  the sympathizer and in the end the escapist. "I am leaving now. It’s my  exit!"

Siren Leirvåg
Lecturer in Theatre Studies,  University of Oslo