METEOR 2025 | Performance

MONOMANIA

by Heiki Riipinen (NO)

Date

Time

Venue

Date

Time

Venue

Friday 14. November 2025

21:30 – 22:45

Visningsrommet USF

Sold out

Accessibility Accessible with wheelchair No blackout No stage smoke or scents No strobe lights Seated or seating options With Norwegian text/speech

A monologue by Heiki Riipinen. Monomania is an outdated psychiatric diagnosis. However, obsession with a single truth, fixed ideas, and unreasonable reasoning is epidemic in our time. In a chaotic and complex world, we seek unified thinking – and the cure is unknown. MONOMANIA is the story of the hero without a goal. It’s an hour spent in a soft world. MONOMANIA is ME-ME-ME, US, ASHES, BLOOD and COCA-COLA. The work is part of Riipinen’s multi-year investigation of retro culture as a phenomenon and problem, and the second performance to use a medical term as an arena for collective togetherness.

This performance is sold out. Really want to see the performance and feeling adventurous? Show up at the door and get on the waiting list. N.B.: Waitlist tickets at the door have a flat price of NOK 250.

Bio

Heiki Riipinen works context-sensitively with theatre as an expanded practice. He alternates between working as a director, actor, playwright, dramaturge, costume designer, set designer, drag artist and curator. His work blends pop-cultural aesthetics with poetic speculation and political undertones – exploring themes of identity, power, failure, and the aesthetics of coexistence. He questions power structures, norms, gender, sexuality, social identity and herd mentality through fiction and speculation. Heiki is currently on the artistic advisory board for VælkommINN – a new festival and guest performance series by Teater Innlandet and Porsgrunn Internasjonale Teaterfestival.

Credits

Concept, direction, text, dramaturgy: Heiki Riipinen
Music: Dragongirl a.k.a Nikoline Ursin Erichssen
Sound Design: Dragongirl a.k.a Nikoline Ursin Erichssen
Light Design: Ariel Efraim Ashbel
Costumes: Damien Avejon
Stage manager: Karin Mustvedt-Plüss
Production: Karin Mustvedt-Plüss
Tour Management: Karin Mustvedt-Plüss

Supported by Arts and Culture Norway in collaboration with Spriten Kunsthall Skien.

Extra Information

This performance contains references to suicide.

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