Guest performance: TORVALD – Ibrahim Fazlic (NO).

TORVALD – a masculine mancave monologue from a middle-aged man in a midlife crisis

From a basement, this interactive monologue performance celebrates and explores masculinity, care and male space. The project is based on the character Torvald from A Doll’s House and places him in the present. In the evenings, when he is alone in his villa, he steps down into the basement and unleashes his masculinity.

In this project, Ibrahim Fazlic searches for the constructively masculine. In the name of representation and inclusion, the role is played by a white, heterosexual, middle-aged, cis-male actor without functional variation, who is read by others as, and is, only Norwegian.

What can we learn about the man behind “the white man who turns fifty”? And, not least, what can he teach us? When the audience enters Torvald’s basement, they make his irrelevant voice relevant again.

More information (Swedish)