FINALLY, KISSED will get to meet the youth of Norway! This week, the performance is back in Kristiansand to meet over 400 students from 9th grade, through The Cultural Schoolbag. We’re very much looking forward to it, and hope for many nice meetings and moments with the students in the south!

Next week we’ll be back on board S/S Hestmanden, and this time we’ll take secondary school student along with us on a journey back in time. 450 students from the 9th grade will get to experience THE LUCKY SHIP, our depiction of life on board, and the true story of Hestmanden in its most dramatic period from the Second World War.

Yesterday, Friday 09 September, we were finally able to show the public our war sailor story “The lucky ship”. The premiere went beyond all expectations, and with good reactions and feedback from the audience, we are now looking forward to a further five performances.

After a long and thorough pre-production, we’ve finally started rehearsals for “THE LUCKY SHIP”. We’re working at Slåtta Scene, on director Åsmund-Brede Eike’s farm in Lunde in Telemark. During the weeks at Slåtta Scene, we will set the stage-direction so everything is ready for technical rehearsals and adaptation to the room when we finally go aboard the ship S/S Hestmanden, just a few days before the premiere.

This autumn, Kanon Produksjon is ready with yet another play for Kristiansand and surrounding areas! The company’s ninth production, “The Lucky Ship” is written by Jon Erik Myre and André Lassemo, and deals with two war sailors during World War II. The play has been under development for the past two years, in collaboration with the Norwegian War Sailor Museum at the Vest-Agder Museum. The script-work has been supported by Agder County Municipality, Fritt Ord, Bjørneboet at Cultiva and Scenekunst Sør.

In the autumn of 2022 and the spring of 2023, KISSED will be on a tour in The Cultural Schoolbag (TCS) in both Kristiansand municipality, Troms and Finnmark county and on Svalbard. The performance has been included in Scenekunstbruket – The Norwegian Network for Performing Arts repertoire, and we hope it will continue to reach a large audience in its most legitimate target group.

Finally KISSED will have its live premiere! And finally Kanon Produksjon is coming to Oslo! On Saturday September 11th, KISSED will be played at Sentralen in Oslo, as part of Assitejs TeaterlørdagUNG. The performance will be played at 12:00 and at 14:00. Just a couple of weeks later, we set course for Teateret in Kristiansand. The performances here will be played on September 24th and 25th at 18:30.

20.-22. of August Jon Erik plays, together with Ina Maria Brekke, the performance SCREAMS OF A BIRD… in Posebyhaven in Kristiansand. This year it’s 150 years since Vilhelm Krag was born in Kristiansand. Krag is known as “The southern poet”and was also the one who christened the region, which was previously part of Western Norway. His poetry is also the starting point for what became the first Southern folk songs. Based on Krag’s texts, a new theatre performance has been created with accompanying new songs.

The rehearsals are currently underway for the show VORBEREITET, which will be performed at Kilden Theatre and Concert house during the brand new dance festival SØaR. The festival will take place in Multisalen 13.-14. August, with three different world premieres per night. VORBEREITET will have its premiere as the last performance out, on Friday 13th of August.

We were very much looking forward to finally showing you KISSED this week, but the current infection situation in Kristiansand means that this is no longer possible, as the municipality has banned all physical events. Everyone who has bought a ticket has been contacted by email for more information, and for those of you who want to buy a ticket to the stream, you will find information about this on Facebook and the performance page of KISSED.