IBSEN Museum & Theater: Fucking Foreigner - I Love You

F*cking foreigner – I love you By and with Kadir Talabani. Direction and music: Øyvind Osmo Eriksen. What does it mean to belong? Where do we call home when part of us is always somewhere else? F*cking foreigner – I love you is a film-like work about living between two worlds – and about the brutal, beautiful journey back home. Film projections, documentary recordings, and scenic presence are woven together in a visually poetic expression. An adult man returns to the childhood room, to the memories, the family, and the stories that have shaped him. The past and present meet in a personal narrative about identity, heritage, and belonging. What do we carry with us from the place we come from? What happens to us when we try to find our place elsewhere? Is it possible to belong to multiple places – without feeling entirely at home in any of them? In November, the performance will gain a new space at the IBSEN Museum & Theater. In the house where Henrik Ibsen lived the last eleven years of his life, the questions of who we are, where we belong, and what we carry with us, get a new resonance. This is not a performance with simple answers, but an open door. A story about homecoming, lost generations, love, humor, and pain. After full houses at Vega Scene and a glowing review in Scenekunst, F*cking foreigner – I love you returns to the stage in Oslo. For everyone who has felt the distance between where they come from, where they are, and where they feel they belong. IBSEN Museum & Theater The performance is suitable for ages 12 and up. A smoke machine will be used during the performance. Duration: approx. 1 hour 40 minutes. Playwright and actor: Kadir Talabani Director, composer, and sound designer: Øyvind Osmo Eriksen Multimedia and audiovisual design: Peter Baden Costume designer: Ingjerd Meland Scenographer: Nora Furuholmen Lighting design: Phillip Isaksen Audiovisual contributors: Kyrre Hellum, Seda Witt, Øyvind Osmo Eriksen, and Tonje Thwin Film director: Sigurd Bleken Film photographer and grader: Lukasz Zamaro Post-production film and still photographer: Victor Quach Drone photographer: Rebin Rashid Text dramaturg: Mari Moen Producer: Tonje Thwin Hagen