Reykjavík Fringe Festival

Buy tickets here.

Cave Dogs live shadow performance, Liquid States, explores land and water as physical substance and metaphoric allusion. This work focuses on land and water use in its many physical states and cultural circumstances, narratives, histories, memories and journeys. The performance forms a collective narrative that addresses mankind’s complicated relationship to essential natural resources.

Liquid States, consists of innovative, large-scale shadow projections cast onto a screen from a variety of props, puppets, costumes and the human body. Shadows move in concert with projected video, animation, spoken narrative, and an original soundtrack.

We create multiple, richly layered visual tableaus, and produce effects that conjure both the dreamlike quality of early experimental film and the humor of contemporary animation.

It’s magical, like watching dreams cross into the conscious world.

We teach trees to dance and whales to sing.

Liquid States, is both abstract documentary and fictionalized realism. The show weaves together imagery and sounds to create a stimulating experience that documents, and celebrates important cultural voices, social identities and environmental perspectives.

Viggo The Viking is a silent comedy show blending clown, physical comedy and mime.
In this wordless story we meet two characters, a sensitive Viking and a brutal Viking man, who clash together facing the expectations of what it means to be a real Viking.


After the premiere at Det Andre Teatret/The Other Theatre in Oslo and a sold ut run at the Brighton Fringe in the UK this new show from Gaulier-trained Norwegian clown Viggo Venn comes to Reykjavik!

Buy tickets here.


On Viggo´s earlier shows:

WINNER: Best Comedy, Brighton Fringe 2016
NOMENEE: Best Comedy, Brighton Fringe 2017
NOMINEE: Best Comedy, Perth Fringe World 2018

'My cheeks were aching with laughter' ***** (FringeGuru.com)

'I laughed so much my face hurt' ****1/2 (Latest)

"Venn has a classical physical comedy in the vein of Monty Python" (TheaterInTheNow, New York)

Folk tales play an important part in Nordic culture. Issun Boshi is the first known folk tale in Japan. We meet an old couple who live in the countryside of Japan. Their greatest wish is to have a child. When they do, he does not grow any bigger than a doll.

At age fifteen, the boy wants to explore the world and sets for adventure despite his parent's concern that he is so small. With the aid of the piano and clavichord (a wooden piano) we invite the audience into a magical landscape where little ones can do great things, and to be different becomes a strength.

Buy tickets here.

Folk tales play an important part in Nordic culture. Issun Boshi is the first known folk tale in Japan. We meet an old couple who live in the countryside of Japan. Their greatest wish is to have a child. When they do, he does not grow any bigger than a doll.

At age fifteen, the boy wants to explore the world and sets for adventure despite his parent's concern that he is so small. With the aid of the piano and clavichord (a wooden piano) we invite the audience into a magical landscape where little ones can do great things, and to be different becomes a strength.

Buy tickets here.

Viggo The Viking is a silent comedy show blending clown, physical comedy and mime.
In this wordless story we meet two characters, a sensitive Viking and a brutal Viking man, who clash together facing the expectations of what it means to be a real Viking.


After the premiere at Det Andre Teatret/The Other Theatre in Oslo and a sold ut run at the Brighton Fringe in the UK this new show from Gaulier-trained Norwegian clown Viggo Venn comes to Reykjavik!

Buy tickets here.


On Viggo´s earlier shows:

WINNER: Best Comedy, Brighton Fringe 2016
NOMENEE: Best Comedy, Brighton Fringe 2017
NOMINEE: Best Comedy, Perth Fringe World 2018

'My cheeks were aching with laughter' ***** (FringeGuru.com)

'I laughed so much my face hurt' ****1/2 (Latest)

"Venn has a classical physical comedy in the vein of Monty Python" (TheaterInTheNow, New York)

In the middle of the Mojave Desert, dozens of miles from the nearest pavement, a lone phone booth stands on a dirt road. One evening, in the mid 1990's, the phone starts ringing…

~~
Buy tickets here.
~~

The Mojave Desert Phone was an isolated payphone in the middle of the Mojave Desert that became the world’s first viral phenomenon in the mid-1990s. It was discovered by Goddfrey ‘Doc’ Daniels who read about the payphone in the back of a zine. After writing about the phonebooth it became a worldwide sensation.

At its peak the once silent phone would be ringing off the hook, with people calling the number from all over the world. Soon it attracted travellers who would drive deep into the desert, led by the desire to talk to whomever happened to be calling. In an age before the internet, it became a place where being miles away from the nearest sign of civilisation was the only way to feel connected.

Our production tells the true story of the Mojave Desert Phonebooth, using a combination of fluid movement sequences, projected video output, verbatim conversation and a live DJ score. It was created from spools of archival information; interviews with Doc, transcripts of phone conversation, pirate radio broadcasts and e-zines and woven into a narrative by a talented ensemble of theatre makers. The show is on one hand a humorous character study of early nineties internet culture, on the other a nostalgic commentary on human connectivity.

Folk tales play an important part in Nordic culture. Issun Boshi is the first known folk tale in Japan. We meet an old couple who live in the countryside of Japan. Their greatest wish is to have a child. When they do, he does not grow any bigger than a doll.

At age fifteen, the boy wants to explore the world and sets for adventure despite his parent's concern that he is so small. With the aid of the piano and clavichord (a wooden piano) we invite the audience into a magical landscape where little ones can do great things, and to be different becomes a strength.

Buy tickets here.

Buy tickets here.

Cave Dogs live shadow performance, Liquid States, explores land and water as physical substance and metaphoric allusion. This work focuses on land and water use in its many physical states and cultural circumstances, narratives, histories, memories and journeys. The performance forms a collective narrative that addresses mankind’s complicated relationship to essential natural resources.

Liquid States, consists of innovative, large-scale shadow projections cast onto a screen from a variety of props, puppets, costumes and the human body. Shadows move in concert with projected video, animation, spoken narrative, and an original soundtrack.

We create multiple, richly layered visual tableaus, and produce effects that conjure both the dreamlike quality of early experimental film and the humor of contemporary animation.

It’s magical, like watching dreams cross into the conscious world.

We teach trees to dance and whales to sing.

Liquid States, is both abstract documentary and fictionalized realism. The show weaves together imagery and sounds to create a stimulating experience that documents, and celebrates important cultural voices, social identities and environmental perspectives.

Darkness covers the land, the people fear for their lives, hope is all but gone. There is one thing the people cling to: a legend. A legend of a great hero who will rise up and vanquish the darkness. A hero who will be remembered forever in as the savior of our world.

That hero, is you!

The Saga of the Shining Emblem is a one-of-a-kind improvised story-telling experience. Each night, one audience member is selected to be the hero of that night’s story. They are guided through a fantastical adventure with one actor serving as the narrator, supporting characters, and anything else our hero should encounter.

Our intrepid hero has one goal; to seek the Shining Emblem! an object of unimaginable power capable of granting one wish to whomever should find it!
How they find it (or if they even bother to quest it at all) is totally up to them! It's like Dungeons & Dragons, only way less dice and way more silly. All accompanied by a live score!

Will you return the light to this world? Or join with the darkness? The choice is yours!

Buy tickets here.

In the middle of the Mojave Desert, dozens of miles from the nearest pavement, a lone phone booth stands on a dirt road. One evening, in the mid 1990's, the phone starts ringing…

~~
Buy tickets here.
~~

The Mojave Desert Phone was an isolated payphone in the middle of the Mojave Desert that became the world’s first viral phenomenon in the mid-1990s. It was discovered by Goddfrey ‘Doc’ Daniels who read about the payphone in the back of a zine. After writing about the phonebooth it became a worldwide sensation.

At its peak the once silent phone would be ringing off the hook, with people calling the number from all over the world. Soon it attracted travellers who would drive deep into the desert, led by the desire to talk to whomever happened to be calling. In an age before the internet, it became a place where being miles away from the nearest sign of civilisation was the only way to feel connected.

Our production tells the true story of the Mojave Desert Phonebooth, using a combination of fluid movement sequences, projected video output, verbatim conversation and a live DJ score. It was created from spools of archival information; interviews with Doc, transcripts of phone conversation, pirate radio broadcasts and e-zines and woven into a narrative by a talented ensemble of theatre makers. The show is on one hand a humorous character study of early nineties internet culture, on the other a nostalgic commentary on human connectivity.

Folk tales play an important part in Nordic culture. Issun Boshi is the first known folk tale in Japan. We meet an old couple who live in the countryside of Japan. Their greatest wish is to have a child. When they do, he does not grow any bigger than a doll.

At age fifteen, the boy wants to explore the world and sets for adventure despite his parent's concern that he is so small. With the aid of the piano and clavichord (a wooden piano) we invite the audience into a magical landscape where little ones can do great things, and to be different becomes a strength.

Buy tickets here.

Buy tickets here.

Cave Dogs live shadow performance, Liquid States, explores land and water as physical substance and metaphoric allusion. This work focuses on land and water use in its many physical states and cultural circumstances, narratives, histories, memories and journeys. The performance forms a collective narrative that addresses mankind’s complicated relationship to essential natural resources.

Liquid States, consists of innovative, large-scale shadow projections cast onto a screen from a variety of props, puppets, costumes and the human body. Shadows move in concert with projected video, animation, spoken narrative, and an original soundtrack.

We create multiple, richly layered visual tableaus, and produce effects that conjure both the dreamlike quality of early experimental film and the humor of contemporary animation.

It’s magical, like watching dreams cross into the conscious world.

We teach trees to dance and whales to sing.

Liquid States, is both abstract documentary and fictionalized realism. The show weaves together imagery and sounds to create a stimulating experience that documents, and celebrates important cultural voices, social identities and environmental perspectives.

Viggo The Viking is a silent comedy show blending clown, physical comedy and mime.
In this wordless story we meet two characters, a sensitive Viking and a brutal Viking man, who clash together facing the expectations of what it means to be a real Viking.


After the premiere at Det Andre Teatret/The Other Theatre in Oslo and a sold ut run at the Brighton Fringe in the UK this new show from Gaulier-trained Norwegian clown Viggo Venn comes to Reykjavik!

Buy tickets here.


On Viggo´s earlier shows:

WINNER: Best Comedy, Brighton Fringe 2016
NOMENEE: Best Comedy, Brighton Fringe 2017
NOMINEE: Best Comedy, Perth Fringe World 2018

'My cheeks were aching with laughter' ***** (FringeGuru.com)

'I laughed so much my face hurt' ****1/2 (Latest)

"Venn has a classical physical comedy in the vein of Monty Python" (TheaterInTheNow, New York)

Darkness covers the land, the people fear for their lives, hope is all but gone. There is one thing the people cling to: a legend. A legend of a great hero who will rise up and vanquish the darkness. A hero who will be remembered forever in as the savior of our world.

That hero, is you!

The Saga of the Shining Emblem is a one-of-a-kind improvised story-telling experience. Each night, one audience member is selected to be the hero of that night’s story. They are guided through a fantastical adventure with one actor serving as the narrator, supporting characters, and anything else our hero should encounter.

Our intrepid hero has one goal; to seek the Shining Emblem! an object of unimaginable power capable of granting one wish to whomever should find it!
How they find it (or if they even bother to quest it at all) is totally up to them! It's like Dungeons & Dragons, only way less dice and way more silly. All accompanied by a live score!

Will you return the light to this world? Or join with the darkness? The choice is yours!

Buy tickets here.