FORES(T)EMPEST comes to Copenhagen

Name: FORES(T)EMPEST comes to Copenhagen
Start: 2025-11-07T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Bådteatret

Schedule

Fri, 07 Nov, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Bådteatret | Copenhagen , SK

Fores(t)empest is a lyrical, stylised adaptation of Shakespeare's Tempest. It performs in Copenhagen for 2 days after performing in Paris and Malmö in 2025. The play first premiered in Sweden in 2023.
Fores(t)empest is inspired by Nordic and Argentinian folktale, using two experienced, strong Swedish/British character actors, 1 dancer and hand-held props, to create an original, powerful and beautiful story of movement, magic and adventure. The theatre form also uses dialogue but focuses on story-telling, object theatre and elements of puppetry and mask.
Fores(t)empest is a performance written, choreographed and directed by Mariana Araoz, international theatre director and Professor of Mask and Puppetry, who has created a unique theatrical style based on her renowned mask-based theatre technique, the ©In-Balance Method for actors, dancers, theatre-makers. Mariana teaches her method in national drama schools the world over, including as Professor of Mask at Teaterhögskolan Malmö, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, l'École du Jeu (Paris), The Conservatoire de Paris, Columbia University in New York, (previously) Boris Shchukin’s Institut in Moscow, Hong Kong Theatre Academy and more.
Theatre In-Balance is a Swedish/French theatre company with branches in Malmö Sweden and Paris France, est. 2016, its own theatre space in Paris and affiliated to renowned mask company Collectif Masque Paris.
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ABOUT THE PLAY
Fores(t)empest
Did you know that 40 million years ago the Öresund was a forest of birch trees, that today lies trapped under the sea between Sweden and its neighbours?
Follow the tale of Miranda, herself trapped on a remote, magical island, with an overbearing father Prospero and a lump of precious amber, as she deliberates between 2 princes – one of them Prince Caliban. Follow Miranda below the waves where she meets an alter ego Anahi, trapped inside a tree on the polluted seabed for the last 500 years…
Discover a tale of drowned slaves and self-liberation, a power struggle between nature and artifice, where only re-awakened memories and the discovery of a shared language will - perhaps -prove the way forward.
Fores(t)empest carries the audience on a dramatic thematic journey between land and sea, using Shakespearean text, Latin American traditional fairy tale and modern dialogue blended with puppetry, mime, physical theatre, sound and movement, to create a folktale of our time.