THEM
Tour Pack 2024–2025
- The Edinburgh Reporter
– Broadway World UK
– Heimildin, Iceland
– Edinburgh Festivals Magazine
– The Queer Review
Photo: Anna Maggy, Design: Louis Crevier
Photos: Anna Maggy, Design: Louis Crevier
How can you live, when a huge part of you is repressed?
THEM presents the pain of not fitting in, the thrill in finding your strength, the shame of misusing it and the sorrow of not knowing how to cry. It is a performance about men dealing with toxic masculinity and women dealing with men – everyone trying to have the right to be, just be.
Four women from Iceland and Finland dive into the world of men and share their stories about love, fathers, sexuality, pride and the fear of being a burden. By visiting someone else’s life, the actresses try to understand their own condition living in a world that’s not designed for them.
The audience will experience men fighting against being vulnerable and finding out why they need to be.
This award-winning physical theatre performance, based on dozens of interviews with male identifying people from different countries, as well as the creators’ own personal stories, has been in the making since 2016. It has taken on many different shapes and forms since, with audiences in Iceland, Finland, Sweden and the UK, and received great reviews.
The performance is in English and is 60 minutes long.
Suitable for ages 16+
Trigger warnings: Strong language including sexual violence, misogyny and homophobia
PRESS
**** Icelandic newspaper Heimildin
“It is a pleasure to see a young company with such consummate ‘total theatre’ skills.”
– Total Theatre Magazine / UK
“THEM is a feminist performance where masculinity is portrayed as a social construct – – nowhere so they reduce men or belittle men – – There is a social imbalance between (all) the genders and it is not only our duty to address that reality – in the hands of Spindrift Theatre that duty becomes both sweet and uplifting experience.”
– Heimildin / Iceland
AWARDS
Nominated for Choreography and stage movements – Icelandic Stage Arts Awards Gríman 2023
Audience’s Choice – Gothenburg Fringe Festival 2022
Best ensemble – Reykjavik Fringe Festival 2022
Nordic Fringe Network Award – Reykjavik Fringe Festival 2020
Photoo: Anna Maggy, Design: Louis Crevier
WHAT WE OFFER
1-hour physical theatre performance about toxic masculinity
Q&A upon request
Devising workshop upon request
Technical requirements
Sound
Sound system connected to a computer with Q Lab
Preferably one hand microphone
Other
Table - dimension in cm: h:80 x w:245 x d:64 (can be ordered from IKEA and delivered to theatre)
Theatre haze
Set
Smooth, black floor
The whole set will fit in 5 suitcases
There will be costumes (men’s suits) hanging from the ceiling
Black or white box theatre, end on performance
Dimensions: Ideal: 10x10x7 / Minimum: 6x6x4
10h tech time, minimum 3h
30 min setting up & break down
Number of people: four actresses and a technician
Lights
Light console: ETC or GrandMA3
Basic light rig
6 floor lights
5–7 light bulbs (the company will provide)
Lighting plot needed prior to arrival, lights will be readapted at each venue
CREATIVE TEAM IN 2021
PRODUCER
Nanna Gunnars & Spindrift Theatre
DIRECTOR & CHOREOGRAPHER
Unnur Elísabet Gunnarsdottir
DRAMATURGE
Audur Bergdís
ACTRESSES
Bergdis Julia Johannsdottir
Anna Korolainen Crevier
Marjo Lahti
Tinna Thorvalds Önnudottir
CO - AUTHOR
Sólveig Eva Magnúsdóttir
COMPOSER
Ragnheiđur Erla Björnsdóttir
LIGHTING DESIGN
Juliette Louste
SET DESIGN
Sara Hjördís Blöndal
PAST PERFORMANCES:
7–14.3.2023 Tjarnarbio, Reykjavik, Iceland
7–9.9.2022 Teater Trixter, Gothenburg Fringe Festival, Gotenburg, Sweden
22.6–3.7.2022 Tjarnarbio, Reykjavik Fringe Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland
23.4.2022 Jacksons Lane Theatre, London, UK
05.12.2021 Dansverkstaedid, Reykjavik, Iceland (R&D)
11.7.2020 Tjarnarbio & online, Reykjavik Fringe Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland (R&D)
10–14.10.2017 Teater Viirus, Helsinki, Finland (R&D)
Photo: Anna Maggy, Design: Louis Crevier
SPINDRIFT THEATRE
Spindrift Theatre is an all female award winning Nordic theatre company consisting of seven women from Finland, Norway and Iceland. We create from a curiosity about human behaviour. We turn ideas and truthful experiences into compelling theatre through physical devising. We focus on perspectives and how they influence the human experience. We question socially normative behaviour through stories devised from the bodies on stage, or in collaboration with visiting artists we admire.
CONTACT
spindrifttheatre@gmail.com
Anna Korolainen Crevier +358 50 575 0650
Marjo Lahti +358 50 590 8751
Tinna Thorvalds Önnudottir +354 865 9462
Bergdís Júlía Jóhannsdóttir +354 848 6513
The performance is created in collaboration with Reykjavik Fringe Festival, Nordisk Kulturkontakt, Tjarnarbió Theatre, Dansverkstæðið, Sláturhúsið Culture House, Nordic House in Reykjavik, Feminist Association Unioni, Teater Viirus and Lyse Nætter festival, Rannís, Reykjavíkurborg, The Icelandic-Finnish Cultural Foundation, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Finnish Cultural Foundation, From Start To Finnish, Icelandic Embassy in London and Actors’ Union Iceland
