We are mammals - Burträsk

HAIRY MAMMALS

A musical about being human in our time, based on music by Annika Norlin (Säkert). About being a little on the sidelines, a little off, a little skewed. About uncharming everyday situations with spaghetti under socks and fish sticks for lunch boxes, about juggling everything that needs to happen at once – young children/teenagers, career, and wanting a well-functioning adult life. About the relationships that crack and clutter. About being in the middle of life, between young and old, noticing how one ages while simultaneously seeing one's parents grow old, become ill, and die.

About being contrary. About everything behind the polished surface, about wanting to stretch the efficient norm society. About the skinless and unpolished and about the mystique of everyday life – spaces that suddenly open up, abysses that become visible. About being sensitive, alive, frail, and afraid. About being human in our time.

Annika Norlin's musical universe meets Ada Berger's sharp contemporary analyses in this skinless and unpolished performance about being human in our time. The performance is a co-production between Västerbottensteatern and Riksteatern.

We live in a time where the view of humanity is very mechanical. One should be smooth, functional, and useful, easy to understand and easy to fix if broken. In this performance, we will experience something beyond utility and function. There is room for the complex, mysterious, incomprehensible, unconscious, and enigmatic that we have pushed aside and chased away. Everything should fit here – even the imperfect, that which is broken, clipped, and fragile.

The encounter between Ada and Annika, two current, writing individuals, is a new and unique collaboration that lays the groundwork for an exciting performing arts experience as Ada Berger, with her sense of humor, existential questions, and sharp contemporary analyses, has taken on writing a script based on Annika Norlin's musical universe. Annika's music and lyrics have never before been dramatized for the theater stage, and in We Are Hairy Mammals, the audience will finally meet her sincere, comedic, and revealing texts in a visual form.

The sound design and music arrangement are by Annsofi Lundin/ANSO, and the performance is directed by Johanna Salander, the artistic director of Västerbottensteatern.

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