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WAR (you should have been there) // 1st ed.

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The Hørve-Edition

July 2013

A village between a vanished youth and the charming getaway cottages of Copenhagen’s creative class, neatly billowing wheat fields of the agricultural industry and dust-covered shop windows lining the thoroughfare, where people gather in the supermarket parking lot to exchange news and children are allowed to run wild in the communally built sports center, and where the Danish military draws the largest number of recruits for its foreign wars.

The voices of a war photographer, a sniper, and a military chaplain permeate Hørve while visitors are witness to increasingly bizarre phenomena that deviate from the realm of the possible…

by & with

arne andersen, karen andreasen, signe andreasen, marie jackie aronsson, benjamin aronsson, tobias burø, peter christiansen, christen christensen, magnus dam, marc dam, viktor gratswohl, iben hansen, mads galatius hansen, michael hansen, inger irene herskind, marianne holm, susanne johansen, sten kaspersen, knud knudsen, martin kristiansen, tessa kyllesbeck, per skou larsen, stig larsen, alfred lykkeager, rita madsen, benjamin mpambano, madeleine m. mpambano, mignone mpambano, moise a. mpambano, anders nielsen, arne og ingerlise nielsen, hanne munk nielsen, charles potts nordgerd, odsherreds touring club, andreas olsson, rasmus olsson, frederik s. pedersen-ebbe, emil petersen, simone petersen, anna-louise herskind porretrune pramvig, peter rasmussen, freddy sebastian, janne sulkjær, birthe & simon sørensen, lars sørensen

 

based on interviews with

karsten høeg, military interpreter; jan grarup, photographer; jimmy solgaard andersen, sniper; jørgen christian madsen, military field-priest, u.v.a.

 

team

sanna albjørk (assistant for research & directing), miriam frandsen (research & dramaturg), katrine gjerding (scenopgraphy), anne jeppesen (soundedits), karina dichov lund (productionmanagement), jörg lukas matthaei (director), gry raaby (productionmanagement)

 

produced by

odsherred teater, odsherred kulturfestival, waves festival vordingborg & viborg festuge

 

supported by

statens kunstråd – scenekunstudvalget & huskunstnerordningen, nordea fonden og fonden aarhus 2017. vordingborg kommune, region sjælland, a.p. møller og hustru chastine mc-kinney møllers fond til almene formaal, konsul georg jorck og hustru emma jorcks fond, augustinus fonden og oda og hans svenningsens fond, vordingborg handelsforening, vordingborg bank, rsm plus, jyske bank, danish malting group, j.c. jensen a/s & holberggård, odsherred kommune