A NEW BLACK COMEDY

Fucking Genius

TJARNARBÍÓ
PREMIERE: 30th March 2023

“I am an artist. I’ve heard you need one.”

Djöfulsins snillingur / Fucking Genius is a black comedy portraying the clash between an artist's identity and an immigrant's reality. Uriela, a newcomer in Iceland, aspires to audition at the National Circus. Instead of finding her place within the cultural elite, she falls into a circle of tricky application and authentication processes, evaluated by the self-checkout robotic system of Kronan.

The play is a multilingual fusion of textual, physical, visual, and musical arts, inspired by Dante's "Inferno" and "Babette's Feast" by Karen Blixen.

Djöfulsins snillingur / Fucking Genius is our fourth theatre production, created with professional theatre talents who bring first-hand experience of moving to Iceland and navigating migration as artists.

TJARNARBÍÓ
PREMIERE: 30th March 2023

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT TIX.IS

Group reservations: reykjavikensemble@gmail.com

Playwrights: Ewa Marcinek and Pálína Jónsdóttir

Actors: Jördis Richter, Heidi Bowes, Jordic Mist,
Paul Gibson, Snorri Engilbertsson

Artistic Team:
Director: Pálína Jónsdóttir
Production and Costume Maker: Klaudia Kaczmarek
Production and Costume Assistant: Wiola Ujazdowska
Lights: Ólafur Ágúst Stefánsson
Sound and music: Íris Thorarins

Project Team:
Stage Manager: Nanna Gunnars
Set Builder: Dawid Reiss
Seamstress: Bożenna Kubś
Production & Promotion: Ewa Marcinek, Nanna Gunnars, Pálína Jónsdóttir
Promotion and Production Assistant: Kaamos Metsikkö
Graphic design: Snæfríð Þorsteins, Klaudia Kaczmarek
Photography: Klaudia Kaczmarek
Theatre Technician: Áslákur Ingvarsson
Producer: Heimsleikhúsið in collaboration with Tjarnarbíó.

Supported by Reykjavíkurborg, Performing Arts Fund,
Nordic Culture Point, and Nordic Culture Fund.

Special thanks: angela rawlings, Auður Snorradóttir, Gudrita Lape, Jason Mechmel, Melinda Wunderbar, Nadia Zadorozna, Rauði krossinn, Robert Zadorozny, Þjóðleikhúsið

Performers:

Jördis Richter

Jordic Mist

Heidi Bowes

Snorri Engilbertsson

Paul Gibson

Production & Creative Team:

Pálína Jónsdóttir

Director & Writer & Producer

Ewa Marcinek

Writer & Producer

Nanna Gunnars

Stage Manager & Marketing Assistant

Kaamos Metsikkö

Production & Promotion Assistant

Klaudia Kaczmarek

Production & Costume Maker, Graphic Design & Photography

Wiola Ujazdowska

Artistic Assistant to Production & Costume Design

Ólafur Ágúst Stefánsson

Light Designer

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Mar 16, 2023

The Reykjavik Grapevine: The Fucking Genius of Reykjavík Ensemble

Mar 16, 2023

“It’s a piece that actually reflects the immigrant experience of coming to this country and what it takes also to be an artist immigrant in this country,” Pálína explains of the production — the company’s fourth in as many years.

Mar 16, 2023

Feb 17, 2023

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Feb 17, 2023

Þorvaldur S. Helgason writes: Ewa Marcinek and Pálína Jónsdóttir are building “Djöfulsins sinillingur” performance on the shared experience of going through the application system as a foreigner in a new country and fictional stories.

Feb 17, 2023