We are the story – by Tomas Lagermand Lundme

A story about people in the city – about the city in people

TOOK PLACE:
Thurs. 8 Sept. 17.00 / Assistens Cemetery
Fri. 9 Sept. 17.00 / Ørstedsparken
Sat. 10 Sept. 15.00 / Skydebanehaven

DURATION: 1 hour

 

Every day we walk past each other on the street. We live close to each other. We sneak glances at each other in the supermarket queue. But what do we really know about all the people who live with us in the city? And can their stories help us understand ourselves better?

We all have our own story, and writer/playwright Tomas Lagermand Lundme will now bring these personal stories to light. Stories about being human here and now. For better or worse. We are people in a city. The city is the setting for our stories and weaves them together.

Telling and listening to stories has always brought us together. The material for the three very different stories, told in three different parks, are the attendees. To join, you must share some of your own story. All participants are assigned roles and take part in the action in a collective narrative that contains both the individual and the community.

The stories are given voice and body in the form of actress Birgitte Prins, who will be the audience’s guide. Tomas and Birgitte guide the participants through moments of immersion into your own experiences, feelings and moods, which are then included in the overall story and subsequently left in different ways in the parks when the ritual is finished.

Each of the three stories contains both an insight into oneself, into others and into the city as a framework for lives that are lived side by side, but which are most often not told – a shared autofiction.

We are the story is a collective mirror about looking ourselves in the eye.

 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Tomas Lagermand Lundme has graduated from the Writers’ School and the Academy of Arts and works as a writer, playwright, screenwriter, visual artist and performer. He has always been interested in telling stories. Most often based on his own life, where he has spoken and written about failure, powerlessness, self-destructive behaviour, abuse, self-hatred, anxiety, physical and psychological violence.

He has openly, empathetically and vulnerably used himself and his own history to try to understand a world that at times can seem impossible to explain, but if you insist and allow yourself to be someone else in order to understand yourself, you often get closer to a useful truth.

 

Photo 2: Marie Bentzon Sørensen