What remains

What remains

by André Lassemo

A park. A night. A place that will soon disappear. Before the machines arrive, before the lights are switched on and everything is cleared away, two men meet in the stillness. Their conversation begins cautiously, almost matter-of-fact, about order, safety and the future. But beneath the language something unsettled is pressing through. The memories are in the ground, in the air, in the pauses between words.

What Remains is a concentrated and charged drama where the political and the personal slide into one another. A meeting that gradually develops into a psychological confrontation about responsibility, guilt, and what happens when what we have tried to forget refuses to stay silent. As morning approaches, it is no longer only the place that is at risk, but the people standing there.

The performance is a two-hander written by André Lassemo, inspired by the ongoing public debate in Kristiansand about urban space, safety, and who is allowed to be visible in the city centre. In the tension between urban development, clean-up and the desire for control, the play explores what happens to both places and people that do not fit in.

What Remains will have its world premiere in one of the former warehouse buildings at the CB Brewery. The audience is placed close around the action, inside the space where the confrontation unfolds, becoming witnesses to a night in which silence can no longer be cleared away.