In  Works and Days,  experiences from a trip to ancient Greece are mixed with fragments of a fifteen-year-old performance. With humor and seriousness, Gunilla Heilborn attempts to figure out how all the disparate episodes she has collected are connected and whether it is really possible to understand the world better by reading both the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Works and Days  consists of two parts. In one, we are met with magnificent tableaux with names like  “A place that is terrible in winter, harsh in summer, never pleasant”  and “ The Rose-fingered Dawn ”. Through fog, mist and music, two dancers move; let’s call them Foam-eyed Sophie and Many-worded Ludvig. With fleeting ease, they stroll across the stage and ask themselves and the audience questions. Do you get seasick easily? Would you describe me as a typical Renaissance person? That I have many strings on my lyre? Do you know what it feels like to drift around in a ship that has frozen solid in the ice?

Kim Hiorthoy

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Works and Days – an epic · Norrlandsoperan

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