A Conversation with Aphrodite
The theatre production “A Conversation with Aphrodite” is an attempt to say something still unsaid about the relationship between men and women. #MeToo has made it risky to come up with new thoughts about the theme. We needed an outside perspective. So, we made a YouTube talk-show with the ancient Greek Goddess of sexual love, Aphrodite. She seemed an appropriate guest regarding her esteemed competence in sex and love. What she says surely provokes the young talk-show host. At some point the French camerawoman filming the talk-show intervenes with some extremely cruel comments about the sexual competence of Norwegian men and women. Not from the perspective of time as Aphrodite, but from the perspective of another culture. It is not easy to be a male host in this show.
Fortunately, at the very end of the performance the Goddess manages to seduce and sexually assault the young host by the means of fresh juicy strawberries and whipped cream…
Rolf Alme
The play set out to be a staged “talk show” and premiered at Nordic Black Theatre in Oslo on the 3rd of September 2021, performing at Vinterlysfestivalen at Nordland Teater and Sentralen in Oslo in 2022.
Director and writer: Rolf Alme
Cast: Elisabeth Dahl, Christian Hestø and Maud Monceyron Jonassen
Producers: Elisabeth Dahl and Christian Hestø
Production assistant and marketing: Maud Monceyron Jonassen
Running time: 75 minutes
Funded by Fritt Ord and SPENN
NSC & Mythos - an artistic research collaboration between director Rolf Alme and actors Christian Hestø and Elisabeth Dahl, commenting on current events, “overwriting” the myths of Antiquity
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