We have finally succeeded in bringing theatre group Susie Wang’s fantastic horror theatre to Bergen. The stage is set for a museum visit from hell. Margit is heavily pregnant and waddles about in search of the child’s father. Encouraged by the museum guard, she pokes her finger into something very old. The past grabs the opportunity, and attacks.
Using the female body as an excavation site, Susie Wang practices a kind of reverse archaeology, where the past finds the human being and pulls her under. And while the body moves at the speed of death, consciousness has taken a detour. Either way, it’s not about getting there first, but about doing the splits without splitting.
Mumiebrun premiered in 2018 and is the second part of Susie Wang’s horror trilogy about human nature. It received the Norwegian Critics’ Prize for Best Theatre Performance in 2019.