"Iggy - reality strikes back" is based on Edy Poppy's novel "Iggy", which was published in 2024 to very good reviews. The performance is directed by Julian Blaue and performed by both. It's about Edy, her three men and an abortion. Blaue plays all the male roles, including himself, while Poppy takes the lead role.
The performance asks uncomfortable questions about identity, creative power and the choices we make - or are forced to make - in art and life. In a radical way, the aborted "Iggy" is reborn, not as a child, but as a work of art, an embodiment of all the ambivalence that comes with choosing art over a conventional life. No, this is not a flirtation with biological reproduction, but a flirtation with life, an exploration and a self-discovery.

Maka Dolidze, review in Dagsavisen (excerpt)

Exploring the limits of the individual's self-exposure in the service of art is the duo's theatrical mission. Their work often challenges capitalism's influence on art, while at the same time problematizing the artist's participation in the system they attempt to criticize. Through performance that mixes self-examination with sharp social criticism, they offer a deeper reflection on the role of art in today's economic and social reality.

Blaue & Poppy appear as a powerhouse within experimental theater art, where they confront both the audience and themselves with paradoxes. Their performances are often a form of social study, spot on at the borderland between individual and society.

Through "Iggy - The reality strikes back", the duo has once again proven that with their intense and introspective performances, they draw the audience into a sphere where questions of identity, the role of art and the structures of society are put under the microscope. For those who want to immerse themselves in the point of contact between art and reality, this is an experience that will linger long after the last line has been said."

Maka Dolidze, review in Dagsavisen (excerpt)

"The novel "Iggy" is written with a fierce and fascinating drive, it is existential and intense."
Guri Hjeltnes, VG (Dice roll: 5)

"There aren't a lot of Norwegian novels about horny, whiskey-drinking women writers who also discuss longing for children. Author Edy Poppy plays with and challenges both art and life in a whirlwind of a novel."
- Hanne Kristin Wolden, Klassekampen

"There is something playfully light and seductively bold about Edy Poppy's 'Iggy'. The novel offers enjoyable reading, steamy sex and some sad but true realizations. Words like shameless and boundless can be added.”
- Turid Larsen, Dagsavisen

Duration: About 100 min
Language: Norwegian
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More info:

https://rosendalteater.no/program/iggy