HAPPY GORILLA
Happy Gorilla is a young Bergen-based theater company I teamed up with during their project Point of No Return in 2012. Today the company is mainly run by myself and the historian Kjartan Andersen and we team up with other artists for our various productions. We develop, write and perform our pieces and do not limit ourselves to one genre or kind of space as each production is highly influenced by the process and artists involved. Exit Strategies, commenting on the economical situation of Europe, was specifically aimed to be performed in empty shop facilities and it bred the one-on-one experience-piece Happy Gorilla Power Nap Shop which explore the value of sleep in various public spaces. Then Turning Golem and dog ma'am god took a different direction with their focus on inherent rules of accepted systems; in this case expressed through a metal-concert, a blackbox theater piece and the short-film Dogma. In this way we seek to express not only through our performances, but also through our choice of collaborations and context.
