{"id":104809,"date":"2025-03-10T21:02:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T21:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/the-legend-of-narnia-the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe-at-the-national-theater-reviews-and-recommendations\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T21:02:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T21:02:57","slug":"the-legend-of-narnia-the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe-at-the-national-theater-reviews-and-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/the-legend-of-narnia-the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe-at-the-national-theater-reviews-and-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Legend of Narnia – the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” at the National Theater – Reviews and Recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Maybe there is one thing in time, this with Narnia? Tr\u00f8ndelag Theater has made great success with its theater performance based on CS Lewis’ fantasy universe, and “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig is in the process of a new adaptation of Netflix’s story. At a time when war is part of the news picture, the Narnia universe gets a renewed topic. In the National Theater’s version, which rolls out to cultural houses throughout the country this spring and autumn, it is a lot about what it is like to be a child at war. Portal Fantasy: A magical world is in the wardrobe, and soon Lucy (Albertinge Lundgren), Peter (Jawad Aziz), Edmund (Sebastian Leegaard England) and Susan (Camilla Klaudiussen) on the way in there. Photo: Signe Fuglesteg Luksengard \/ Riksteatret Through the wardrobe “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” is one of the big portal fantasy stories for children. The year is 1940, and the four children Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are sent from London’s bomber to security in the countryside. In the big house they are going to live in, they find a wardrobe, and it turns out to be the entrance to the country Narnia. In Narnia, the witch reigns white with ice -cold hand. She keeps all beings in the country in an iron grip, making it always winter, but never Christmas. In Narnia, the four children become part of an old divination to be fulfilled so that the witch can be deposited and peace and order can be restored – but it does not happen without complications. For one of the four, Edmund, the witch’s side chooses. The opposite of the witch is the lion Aslan. Afraid: The war has made its mark on the four children sent out from London’s bombing for a safer life in the countryside. From left: Sebastian Leegaard England, Albertine Lundgren, Jawad Aziz, Camilla Klaudiussen. Photo: Signe Fuglesteg Luksengard \/ Riksteatret Adventure: But another world awaits them, here represented by a large and beautiful teasing that constitutes the adventurous of the scenography. From left: Jawad Aziz, Sebastian Leegaard England, Albertine Lundgren and Camilla Claudiussen. Photo: Signe Fuglesteg Luksengard \/ Riksteatret Clear feelings The Narnia story is a powerful adventure story, but it is also a story of dealing with being children at war. The four have to learn to go in the battle, to help others, despite putting themselves at risk, and Peter (Jawad Aziz) first gets ready for the task that awaits him in Narnia after he has committed his first killing (which he makes Keitee and with big rumors in the National Theater’s performance. But he grows on it). Hilde Brinchmann’s acting director shows big and clear emotions, not least the four children are strongly marked by the fear of war when the performance starts. The clear feelings help the children in the audience into the story. Especially Edmund (Sebastian Leegaard England) is a clear communicator of the matches he is fighting on the inside. Fear: The terrifying witch white (well played by Janne Starup B\u00f8nes) soon has Edmund (Sebastian Leegaard England) in his hollow hand. It gets fatal. Photo: Signe Fuglesteg Luksengard \/ Riksteatret Hard and white “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” is both adventurous and old -fashioned. The story contains great battles and deep secrets. The music is distinctly cinematic and plays up to something spectacular. The scenography is not able to match it. The stage blanket hints at the French unicorns from the Middle Ages, which is also glimpsed in some Harry Potter films. The scene itself is covered with large white fabrics. It creates something hard and white. The function is both to showcase the winter landscape in Narnia and to be a curtain for the fantasy world that exists behind them. The challenge is that the white feels massive and hard despite the softness of the textiles, which means that it takes time to get into this as a real adventure landscape. In many cases, the scene seems a little too flimsy for the big story it will hold. Powerful: The white fabrics are soft, but the overall impression is at the same time massive. The possibilities for figure games and shadow theater are utilized to some extent, but the scener room is also experienced cramped and a little hard. Later in the performance this changes. Photo: Signe Fuglesteg Luksengard \/ Riksteatret Photo: Signe Fuglesteg Luksengard \/ Riksteatret Photo: Signe Fuglesteg Luksengard \/ Riksteatret “Respawn” The play is good, especially at the witch white, the lion Aslan and – most of all – most of all – with the leverage Beveren (Christina Sleipnes). Sleipnes’ comedy games bring hope, humor and somewhat wonderfully incorrect into this great story of good and evil. That, as well as the children’s clear feelings, means that there are enough shades that the audience sees that hero stories are also complicated. Director Brinchmann gets a good time. Comic Relief: Christina Sleipnes as the beaver is the children’s companion in the play. A fun and important role. To the left of Sleipnes: Jawad Aziz and Camilla Klaudiussen. Photo: Signe Fuglesteg Luksengard \/ Riksteatret But the running point in the Narnia story is punctured by the children’s culture as it is today. The crazy victim Aslan does when choosing to be killed by the witch white for Edmund to live, experiencing pale than expected. It may have something to do with the narrative structure of today’s children’s culture, and especially through the prevailing narratives in various computer games, has created a kind of displacement. If you die in a game, there are often great opportunities to respaw. You are not necessarily done if you die. And that’s something I seem to sense in the hall during the premiere of “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” – an expectation that Aslan will respaw. As he does, it degrades the surprise moment. Aslan: Numa Edema Norderhaug plays a nice Aslan in the National Theater’s “Legend of Narnia – L\u00f8ven, the witch and the wardrobe”. Photo: Signe Fuglesteg Luksengard If the performance had spent a little more time on Aslan being actually dead, the change could become more valid. Respawne is nothing new, but in the theater everything happens in real, played out of living people. And then death is basically final. War is not playful in war, many are sacrificing for a bigger case, and death is final. In Narnia, Aslan’s return to all laws of nature – including the inner laws of the fantasy universe in Narnia has set for itself. The deeply humanistic of sacrificing himself for another also fades when the children can think in Respawn as a real or obvious opportunity for the story. Right enough: At the National Theater it is awful when Aslan is killed. The seriousness of the war is certainly present – war is not a play in Narnia. “The lion, the witch and the wardrobe” are not theater suitable for the smallest or delicate children. And it is still a nice, exciting and heroic story about who we choose to be when everything is at stake. About the play: Title: “The legend of Narnia – L\u00f8ven, the witch and the wardrobe” By: CS Lewisdramatized for Theater By: Hilde Brinchmann Premiere: Nydalen, Oslo 6 March, March 6, 2025 Tour premiere: Drammen, March 11, 2025 555555555555555. Contributors: Jawad Aziz, Janne Starup B\u00f8nes, Sebastian Legaard England, Rasmus Ofstad Feidje, Albertine Lundgren, Numa Edema Norderhaug, Camilla Klaudiussen, Svein Harry Sch\u00f6ttker-Hauge, Christina Sleipnes and Martin Karelius \u00d8stens Wenche Viktorsdatter Paulsen Scenographer: Signe Gerda Landfald Costume designer and mask designer: Helena Andersson Light designer: Martin Flack Composer: Eirik Myhr Sound Designer: Morten Haug Serigstad Dramaturg: Mariken Lauvstad Kampkoreograph: Kristoffer J\u00f8rgensen. 16.03
\n

\n
ttn-69 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maybe there is one thing in time, this with Narnia? Tr\u00f8ndelag Theater has made great success with its theater performance based on CS Lewis’ fantasy universe, and “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig is in the process of a new adaptation of Netflix’s story. At a time when war is part of the news picture, the Narnia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1867,17857,23230,252,225,224,3570,5819,14065],"class_list":["post-104809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-legend","tag-lion","tag-narnia","tag-national","tag-recommendations","tag-reviews","tag-theater","tag-wardrobe","tag-witch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}