Go Figure Extra: Dragged Out

Varun Narain (UK/N)

Friday May 31st: 9.00 pm
SALT, PYRAMIDEN

Age guidance: 20+ Language: English

Join us for a spectacular celebration of diversity, creativity, and fabulousness! In collaboration with Oslo Drag Festival, we are showing Dragged Out at SALT, and we promise you a thrilling extravaganza like no other.

Varun Narain is an Indian puppeteer who explores the intersection of drag, identity, and puppetry. Varun is a part of Safemuse, an organization that works for artistic freedom and safe working conditions for persecuted artists worldwide. We are showcasing the performance as a kind of vorspiel, or prelude, to this year’s festival, which opens on June 2nd.

“My queer journey out to ocean of Drag began as a child, as I played with dolls and fantasized. In this performance, located at the intersection of puppetry and drag, I return to that world (after about 40 years) to understand what happened, and to see what further happens. The performance is a celebration of Disco life in the closet during the early 1980’s. The world of my dolls has manipulated me, as I have manipulated them, to cross over the boundaries of gender, reality and art. In an ancient text in India, it says that ‘a puppeteer is a soul in search of a body, and a puppet is a body in search of a soul’. I may be a ‘has been’ but my dolls/puppets are still drag queens. The question however is whose dog show is this? Mine or theirs??”
Varun Narain

By and with: Varun Narain
Photo: Private and Karina Rønning

Welcome to Go Figure!

This is the festival for all of those who love puppet theatre, for those who know what puppet theatre is, but are unsure if they like it, and for those who have never experienced a single puppet theatre performance in their life. During Go Figure, you will find experiences that can crack you up, allow you to immerse yourself in sensory expressions, and that might challenge your own perspectives. Welcome!

Økohelter

Sticky (N/UK)

Sunday 2nd of June: 1.00 pm
Monday 3rd of June: 6.00 pm
KLODEN TEATER

Suitable for children 4+ and their families

Relaxed programme: Økohelter

Sticky (N/UK)

Sunday 2nd of June: 3.00 pm
Monday 3rd of June: 12.00 pm (closed performance)
KLODEN TEATER

Age: For all of those who prefer a more “relaxed” atmosphere in the theater space, or for those in need of various types of accommodation.

Animal R.I.O.T

Wakka Wakka (N/USA)

Tuesday 4th of June: 7.30 pm
Friday 7th of June: 7 pm
KLODEN TEATER

16+ Language: Mostly English

Concert with Trio Oro

Trio Oro

Wednesday 5th of June: 12.00 pm
Thursday 6th of June: 12.00 pm (school concert)
KLODEN TEATER

For everyone. Language: Mostly Norwegian

Relaxed programme: Concert with Trio Oro

Trio Oro

Wednesday 5th of June: 6.00 pm
KLODEN TEATER

For everyone

The Immortal Jellyfish Girl

Wakka Wakka (N/USA)

Wednesday 5th of June: 7.30 pm
Thursday 6th of June: 7.30 pm
TRIKKESTALLEN, OSLO NYE TEATER

12+ Language: English

Dead as a Dodo

Wakka Wakka (N/USA)

Saturday 8th of June – 7.30 pm
Sunday 9th of June – 9.00 pm
TRIKKESTALLEN, OSLO NYE TEATER

8+ Language: English

Déjà

The Krumple (N/F/DK/USA)

Sunday 9th of June – 7.30 pm
KLODEN TEATER

15+ Languae: No language

Langt Ute Og Lengst Inne

Bananaz - Forening for Scenekunst (N)

Saturday 8th of June: 10.00 am / 10:45 am / 11:30 am and 13.00 pm / 13.45 pm / 14.30 pm and 16.00 pm / 16.45 pm / 17.30 pm
Sunday 9th of June: 10.00 am / 10:45 am / 11:30 am and 13.00 pm / 13.45 pm
SENTRALEN, GYMSALEN

13+ Language: No language

EERIE DESCENT

Nordpolen Figurteater

Free
Pop-up near the event locations

For everyone. Language: Without language

Et dukkehjem

Plexus Polaire (N/F)

Wednesday 12th of June – 7 pm
Thursday 13th of June – 7 pm
BÆRUM KULTURHUS

14+ Language: English

Skipbrudden

Kompani Oval

Friday 14th of June – 5 pm
Saturday 15th of June – 6 pm
TEATER MANU

13 + Language: No language

Avslappa program Pling i bollen

Teater Krummelanke (N)

Avslappa program/Relaxed programme. School performances.

For everyone. Language: Norwegian

Shifting Focus

Workshop with Rene Baker

CONCLUDED
When: 25th and 26th of April 2024 – 09.30 am – 16.30 pm
Oslo Teatersenter

Registration: send an email with name and contact information to: info@gofigure.no