Memoria

Abstract

Annelis Kuhlmann: “Memoria. A theater performance about war as present memory” This article throws light on how the theater performance, Memoria, by Odin Teatret, Denmark, deals with trauma from World War II as material, so that the actors in the theater production create a complex form of memory act on stage. The explicitly analogue form of Memoria becomes a strength through the bodily presence between actors and spectators. The increasing absence of speech forms a symbolic thread in the witnessing of the war.