GORILLA
Premiere 2012
Herning New Theater, Herning Denmark
Re-premiere 2015
Svalegangen, Århus Denmark
Five top male managers meet at their company’s country lodge to complete what they think is a weekend workshop on team building and gender-related issues, run by the company’s female coach. Instead, they are confronted with their team’s poor financial results. When an unexpected visitor shows up, they are slowly forced to see that greed and personal ambitions have driven some of them to this devastating dead end in their careers and private lives.
Written by: Rhea Leman
Directed by: Anne Zacho Søgaard
The Cast: Jesper Hyldegaard, Rolf Hansen, Paw Henriksen, Hans Henrik Clemmensen, Asbjørn Agger and Dorte Hansen-Carlsen
Set-design and Costumes: Thomas Ravnsgaard
Light: Søren Lydersen
Sound: Morten Birk
Written by: Rhea Leman
Directed by: Anne Zacho Søgaard
The Cast: Jesper Hyldegaard, Rolf Hansen, Paw Henriksen, Hans Henrik Clemmensen, Asbjørn Agger and Dorte Hansen-Carlsen
Set-design and Costumes: Thomas Ravnsgaard
Light: Søren Lydersen
Sound: Morten Birk.
Photos: Axel Schütt
“ … one of the most welcomed and moving performances of this season.”
“The inner gorilla comes to life faster than you can imagine in Rhea Leman’s excellent play about the financial crisis and five men’s fear of getting fired.”
Anne Middelboe Christensen, Information
*****
“Rhea Leman has written a beautiful text. It waves a flag of parody, fiercely ridiculing our private emotions that are generated under the falsity of corporate empathy.”
Kirsten Dahl, Århus Stiftiende
“Successful Danish office comedy about the jungle in a large, engineering company that’s threatened financially. A witty and realistic comedy”.
Henrik Lyding, Jyllands Posten
“… good theater that’s performed so well that it gives you both something to laugh at and something to think about – maybe while you’re looking in the mirror.”
Vagn Buch, Herning Tidende
“Even though the performance never resorts to the feel-good-trap, it’s very entertaining. So go and see it before your HR boss does.”
Dorte Kolding, Herning Ugensavis
