FREEDOM 2006 is a sharp and amusing insight into fundamental fears and what they are doing to our freedom. A one-way trip to freedom. Do you dare buy a ticket? (“Freedom 2006” poster)
We sit down in the small theatre and the light slowly fades. It is getting quiet. You can almost feel the excitement in the air, like it is before any play. It’s like a hush of expectation lying in the room. The audience are waiting impatiently but pleasant, and now it is only a matter of time before the bubble bursts. You can almost hear the nervous breath of the actors backstage thinking “Here we go”.
It starts. The drop of water that makes the surface-tension break. And out comes a flood of humour, frustration, speculation, sarcasm, panic, suspicion, power, and not least the question of freedom.
The three characters represent three different ways in reacting in a panicked situation: The formal politician (Ian Burns), the imper-
tinence journalist (Christina Hildebrandt), whom get an excellent chemistry in the play, and the less talented advertising man (David Bateson). Their common flight to London is late, caused of a terror threat. The speakers command them to throw themselves into wicked situations, like the unwanted demand of undressing in the middle of an airport, or a game of Twister on the spots on the floor, witch keeps the politician and the journalist from ripping each other apart. These extremely amusing happenings is not only supported by the well-played characters, like the commercial guy trying to reach a signal with his wireless telephone, but also by the fact that they all follow the ridiculous orders without a doubt. Here we can ask ourselves the question: in a particularly free world we are living in, is the freedom we think we have, the same as the freedom this play shows us we haven’t?
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