The result is both sympathetic, nostalgic and theatrically intelligent... Verk Produksjoner have yet again shown that they are among our most important creators of contemporary theater.
"Opening Night investigates different times, approaches, historical traditions, ways of understanding, seeing and thinking about the art of acting and theater. It seeks to show us the art of theater, but also its inadequacy. The actor always returns, like a junkie he does not let go the feeling the theater has drilled into his body, he will always return, dig deeper, into, down into the matter, forward, up, further on stage, in the rehearsal rooms, in the room with the others. Opening Night is both festive and sad , light and heavy, it thinks as much as it does, thinks further, and thinks with us, thinks of the pandemic, thinks what is the theater able to, what is the art of acting in 2021, how should this body continue to drill through layers to approach the flame, the beating flesh.”
Verk Productions has staged a number of performances at Black Box teater through their more than twenty-year work, most recently the critically acclaimed The Big Dream in the fall of 2019. The company tours both at home and abroad, receiving warm responses from both press and audiences. Among other recognitions, they have received the Hedda Award twice.
