Join a masculine mancave monologue from a middle-aged man in crisis, created by Festspillene’s former emerging artist Ibrahim Fazlic.
From a basement room, this interactive monologue performance celebrates and explores masculinity, caregiving, and male spaces. The performance is based on the character Torvald from A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, placing him in the present day. In the evenings, when he is alone in his villa, Torvald descends into his basement room and unleashes his masculinity. As the audience enter his basement, they make his irrelevant voice relevant again.
In this project, Ibrahim Fazlic searches for the constructively masculine. In the name of representation and inclusion, he has cast a white, heterosexual, middle-aged, cis-male actor without disabilities, who is perceived by others as, and is, exclusively Norwegian.
What can we learn about the man behind "the white man pushing fifty," and more importantly, what can he teach us?
TORVALD has received a scholarship from Ibsen Scope, and the jury writes, among other things: "Over the years of the Ibsen Scope jury, hundreds of applications have been received to stage various versions of the story of Nora's liberation from male dominance and oppressive gender roles. It is therefore a very welcome surprise that the Norwegian actor and playwright Ibrahim Fazlic in this project has focused on the male protagonist of the dollhouse, namely the abandoned husband Torvald."
Ibrahim Fazlic is a performing artist and playwright. He was a house playwright at the Dramatikkens hus from 2019 to 2023 and has previously created the performances Prty Lyfe, A Muslim Afro-Joik in Swedish in Norway, and Mommy Masochist.