«Nora Nora Nora»

On 14 June 2019, more than half a million women in Switzerland will take to the streets to demonstrate for equality between men and women. In the Corona year 2020, women's work is suddenly systemically relevant, and in 2021 we "celebrate" the introduction of women's suffrage in Switzerland, which was long overdue 50 years ago.

Reason enough for the Grenzgänger theatre group to rework Ibsen's work and to ask urgent questions: Is the systemically relevant work of women rewarded? Is the man taking on new responsibilities at home in times of home office ? What happens to the distribution of roles when it is suddenly said: "Please stay at home"? Why is it so difficult to break up old role models?

Why haven't we made any progress on the issue of gender equality? And why is it so reluctant to talk about it or do something about it? In collaboration with the author Eva Rottmann, the theatre evening "Nora Nora Nora" was created.

Rottmann took up the story of Henrik Ibsen's Nora and continues to tell it in the present day . Three women meet and want to know who Nora was, which is why she left, leaving her husband and children behind. The women deal with their life plan, their own demands and expectations.

What does "Nora Nora Nora" stand for? Women, opportunities, perspectives? The layers shift until they are resolved. The sought-after miraculous shows itself as a new narrative, as visionary thinking for today's society.

"Nora Nora Nora" analyses and reflects on a possible or impossible escape of three women from their family idyll. The breaking up of existing structures brings to light the unimagined or confirms what has long been suspected. In the field of tension between the moral demands of the environment and one's own wishes, personal and social demands collide and want to be satisfied. One's own position, relationships and view of one's own life are put to the test.

Does this create the opportunity for a completely new life plan?

A border crossing production.

Staging, artistic direction: Bettina Glaus
Play text: Eva Rottmann
Cast: Vera Bommer, Kathrin Veith, Fabienne Trüssel
Stage: Barbara Pfyffer
Implementation of stage design: Phil Wagner
Costumes: Medea Karnowski
Lighting/Technology: Marc Hostettler
Soundtrack: Giancarlo Della Chiesa
Mediator: Anaïs Grütter
Eye from the outside: Anne-Christine Gnekow
Assistant: Julia Arnold
Photos: Dominik Wunderli
Graphic: Sarah Infanger
Production: www. grenzgaenge.ch

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