theatre 2018 - 2020

HEIMA ER BEZT 

2018

Premier: February, 2018.

Iceland University of the Arts.

Director: Adolf Smári Unnarsson

Text: Adolf Smári Unnarsson

Music: Andrés Þór Þorvarðarson

Lights: Egill Ingibergsson

Actors: : Berglind Halla Elísdóttir, Gunnar Smári Jóhanesson, Jónas Alfreð Birkisson, Hildur Vala Baldursdóttir.

TAKK FYRIR MIG

2019

Premier: February 18. 2019.

IÐNÓ

In collaboration with Venjulegt íslensks fólks

Text: Adolf Smára Unnarsson

Director: Matthías Tryggvi Haraldsson

Music: Friðrik Margrétar

Cast: Hildur Ýr Jónsdóttir, Fjölnir Gíslason, Júlíana Kristín Liborius Jónsdóttir, Vilhelm Neto

„Eftirbragðið er gott...”

— Silja Aðalsteinsdóttir / tmm.is

„Kannski þarf maður að tileinka sér reglurnar áður en maður brýtur þær.”

— Árni Vilhjálmsson / Lestarklefinn

„Eftir stendur að Takk fyrir mig er áhugaverð sýning þar sem á svið stígur hæfileikafólk sem forvitnilegt verður að fylgjast með í framhaldinu”

— Silja Björk Huldudóttir / Morgunblaðið

SKATTSVIK DEVELOPMENT GROUP

ÁST & KARÓKÍ

ÁST & KARÓKÍ IN COLLABORATION WITH REYKJAVÍK CITY THEATRE

PREMIERED IN MARCH 2020

ÁST & KARÓKÍ: Adolf Smári Unnarsson, Birnir Jón Sigurðsson, Friðrik Margrétar Guðmundsson, Matthías Tryggvi Haraldsson, Stefán Ingvar Vigfússon.

Independent performance art group Love and Karaoke has for the past weeks worked within the walls of the City Theater under the pretense that its members are authoring a new Icelandic play about toxic masculinity. An extensive data leak, however, shows that the group has instead made large amounts of money through tax evasion. Millions of Icelandic Krónurs that the City Theater pays for the play end up in a secret bank account in Santa Lucia by the power of double taxation agreements, offshore companies, a supposed consultancy in Panama and Dublin company Tax Evasion Development Group.

It’s less of an actual play per se and more of an artfully presented, frank account of an act of performance art: these five guys taking their paychecks for the production (standard monthly pay for artists in Iceland, times five) and attempting to hide it from the tax man using the sorts of schemes used by shady millionaires. The outcome is satirical, educational and often just plain hilarious.

A really bad idea for a theatre piece? I was proven wrong! - Silja Aðalsteinsdóttir TMM