MUSEUM OF MEMORIES

”Finally when I saw the warm and tragic performance Museum of Memories I realized, why I still go to the theatre: NIE have an integrity

and drive that goes beyond most of the companies I know!”Dagens Nyheter Stockholm - Pia Huss

Minutes, maybe hoursof your own existencethat you have forgotten,but I remember.You live a secret lifein another person’s memory. Tor Ulven

We cannot completely rely on our memories, and yet, there is no other reality than the one that we carry with us in memory. Each moment we live gets its importance from the past. Present and future would lose all meaning if the past was erased from our consciousness. Between ourselves, and nothing, is our ability to remember.

NIE has made its own movable museum building. Made up out of 70 m2 of rusty drawers. Inside this room five people reconstruct a life that has ended. Two brothers, a neighbour, a teacher and a lover. With warmth, humour and music, they tell stories about the one they have lost. A brother, a student, a neighbour boy, the first love.

The audience sits close together inside the intimate venue, that resembles an archive, and experience‘s the actors and stories closely. After the performance, the rusty drawers open to reveal an exhibition. The space turns into a small museum, a room for reflection with different sensory experiences that can awaken associations for our own lives and own memories.

MUSEUM OF MEMORIES

“The exceptional ensemble combines exquisite, highly physical acting and wonderfully integrated live music... deeply moving and genuinely memorable”

The Daily Telegraph

“This production was made out of a need and a wish to make a piece of art that addressed the difficult themes of death and suicide inside a frame that could give an extended space for reflection. Both these themes are in many societies and cultural contexts looked upon as taboos. My aim has been to open up these taboos, and to create a physical and mental space where it‘s ok to laugh and cry, to be a spectator and participant.”

Kjell Moberg Director

Director/concept: Kjell Moberg

Actors: Helder Deploige/David Hlaváč, Kieran Edwards, Guri Glans/Charlotte Grundt, Iva Moberg, Dagfinn Tutturen/Tomáš Měcháček/Arturo Tovar

Music: Helder Deploige

Design: Katja Ebbel Frederiksen

Production: Iva Moberg, Guri Glans, Uta Gildhuis

Co-director: Alex Byrne

Technical team: Vojtěch Švejkar, Jan Sháněl

Performance length: 65 min + approx. 10–15 min exhibition

Age: 15+

MUSEUM OF MEMORIES

“A lifetime of laughter and tears packed into 70 minutes-utterly wonderful.’” Onstage Scotland

New International Encounter (NIE) is an international company that makes  theatre performances through a mix of physical theatre, multiple languages, live music, storytelling and a European and international ensemble. Established in 2001, NIE rehearsed its first three shows in the old Sokol gymnastic hall in Mšeno, a small town in the north of the Czech Republic. Those three shows – My Long Journey Home, Past Half Remembered and The End of Everything Ever –won numerous awards and performed all over the world, from Norway to Mexico City, from Edinburgh Fringe Festival to New York, London, Shanghai and Seoul. Since 2001 NIE has gone on to create new shows in co-production with venues and theatre companies from across Europe, including site-specific work and theatre for younger audiences.

Over the past 14 years NIE has created 22 shows, performed over 4,000 times in 1,000 places to audiences across 4 continents in 32 countries.

In January 2016 NIE aims to return to New York and New Victory Theatre with their installation performance MUSEUM OF MEMORIES.

ABOUT NIE THEATRE

“A joyful feat of theatre.” Three Weeks

Museum of MemoriesThe End of Everything EverAround the World in 80 DaysHanna & HeinzBerlin 1961Hansel & GretelMy Long Journey HomePast Half RememberedMy Life with the DogsPim & TheoRun

Find more info on: www.nie-theatre.com

NIE repertory

“Potent storytelling, the comedy and tragedy running neck and neck.” The Times

2014 – Museum of Memories nominated for Gullsekken Award, Norway2011 – Gullsekken Award, Norway2011 – Norwegian Association for Performing Arts Award for Artistic Bravery 2011 – ASSITEJ Honorary President Award, ASSITEJ World Congress Malmö, Sweden 2011 – Grand Prix Award, TIBA Festival, Belgrade, Serbia 2011 – ASSITEJ Jury Award for Best Artistic Achievement, TIBA Festival, Belgrade, Serbia2010 – Jury Prize for Best New Work ASSITEJ Festival, Kristiansand, Norway 2009 – Best Practice Award from the EU Youth in action programme (NIE Seminar)2006 – Herald Angel Award and the Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Fest., UK 2005 – Jury Award for Best New Work, TIBA Festival, Belgrade, Serbia 2005 – Award for the Best production in 2005, Østfold, Norway 2004 – Jury Award for Best New Work ASSITEJ Festival, Kristiansand, Norway 2004 – Nominated as Best Visiting Production, Toronto, Canada2004 – Jury Award for Artistic Creativity, TIBA Festival, Belgrade, Serbia2004 – Nominated for Edinburgh Fringe Festival Best Ensemble Performance in

The Stage Awards2002 – Jury Award Days of Youth Theatre Festival, Mostar, Bosnia

NIE awards and nominations

CONTACT: www.nie-theatre.com

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Photo: Jiří N. Jelínek, Vojtěch Švejkar, Tobias Metz

Design: Přemysl Bukovský