id - Identity of the Soul is a work of performance art produced by Martine Rød and directed by

Thomas Hoegh Thomas Hoegh is a Norwegian artist, investor and entrepreneur who oversees a portfolio of high-growth businesses in the creative sectors. Thomas directs films and theatre under the name Torstein Blixfjord. He was born in Oslo in 1966. Career Ho ...

. The first version of this work, Terje, was performed in Yokohama, Japan in 2006 with Paal Ritter Schjerven as Co-Director and Director of Cinematography. and the latest version premiered in Palestine in 2008. In 2009 the show then toured to Doha, Qatar in May and to th
Teater Ibsen
in Skien, Norway in June. The Studio version of id (a smaller, more portable version of the production) had its English premiere at the Cambridge Film Festival on 17 September 2009 and is currently touring the UK. Based on Norwegian playwright

Henrik Ibsen Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playw ...

's poem '

Terje Vigen ''Terje Vigen'' is a poem written by Henrik Ibsen, published in 1862. Much of the story and setting is from the area around the town of Grimstad in southern Norway where Ibsen lived for a few years in his youth. It describes the dramatic saga o ...

' and Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish's "A Soldier Dreams of White Lilies"All Time Is Unredeemable blog
/ref> id is a combination of music and poetry along with film projected onto five separate screens. The soundtrack was composed by Paul Noble and Dan Berridge, and is a fusion of traditional Scandinavian and Arabic music with contemporary electronic rhythms.
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World Tour

id has been performed in several cities since 2006, and continues its world and UK tour

References

External links

Film Maker Website

Arts Alliance

id - Identity of the Soul Website

id - Identity of the Soul local Website

Varden Newspaper Telemark Norway

Qatar Tribune's review of "id - Identity of the Soul"

Report from Aman in Norwegian daily - Aftenposten

The Official Cambridge Film Festival Website

From Banipal Magazine of Modern Arab Literature

Review from Cambridge Film Festival
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