The Radio Theater has launched its winter program last Saturday on Channel 1.
The Radio theater has played an important role in its activities since the early days of RÚV and performed new and recent plays on Saturdays at 14:00.
This year’s winter program began with a performance of “An Important Man” by Bjarni Jónsson.
The play is about middle age, where he tries to realize his past and circumstances after an accident that makes him incapacitated and adds to the complications, by recording a podcast. The play will be available until October 19 on RÚV internet radio player.
RÚV describes Bjarni Jónsson as a leading Icelandic playwright and also a member of the theater group Kriðpleir, which has staged the works Bónusferðin and Litla jólin at the Radio Theater in recent years with great popularity.
In October, Útvarpsleikhúsið, in collaboration with the theater group Ignition warning, will present the work “Welcome Home”, which is based in part on a play of the same name by María Thelma Smáradóttir, Kára Hergils and Andrea Vilhjálmsdóttir. The play weaves together stories of María Thelma, the first actress of Asian descent to graduate from the Iceland Academy of the Arts, and her mother, Vala Rúnar, who was born in Thailand in the middle of the last century and discusses themes such as the meaning of origin, different cultures, prejudices and humanity.
It is also reported that at Christmas, the Radio Theater will premiere a new chapter in the story of the actress and screenwriter Jóhanna Friðrika Sæmundsdóttir. The work is based on the stories of two teachers who live in different times, one in 1900 and the other in 2000, and deals with having children, what it is like not being able to have children and what it is like to have children without necessarily intending to.
The second part of the program will be an innovative documentary called “Potatoes”. It is based on the stage work of the troupe CGFC and was nominated for The Icelandic Theater Prize last spring. In this work, the past and the present meet in a discussion about the humble but important phenomenon of the potato that has saved the nation from scurvy and kept it afloat through the centuries and also praised a play group of interesting characters.
Source: The Nordic Page