Devisor and performer

Excerpt from a shared diary April 6 - May 4:

This morning I woke up crying. Isn't there a good feeling in the air? Some hell of good feeling? Why is it so easy to find everything you do so ugly and miserable? I want to scream in a pillow. I just crying in a pillow though. Tomorrow. On Monday. Yesterday was Monday tomorrow and I didn’t realise it. Tomorrow I'm going to start to follow the plan. This morning I woke up and realized it was Monday. I really appreciate what a wonderful family I have. It's also so fun to have something that you are always excited about, desire is such a good feeling! There's a kind of a calm weather outside. Some hell of good feeling. I do not understand why one does not do this more in the winter?? - to just go out in the yard as if you are in 25+ degree Celsius heat only you just dress for the cold. Sun is sun. Yes pleeeeease!! The sun is so gentle, otherwise I have not done anything exciting. It's seems it will be an unpaid summer for me. I feel bad, but it inspires me, because when I feel I feel the need to prove to myself that I am not poor. Oops shit, what am I doing? Just been postponing all day. Why am I not more stressed or energetic or just chilling and enjoying it? What did I do today? Why am I not going up the mountain every day? Why am I not just exercising every day now? I guess I will never forgive myself for coming out of this lockdown sixpackless. But, this is just the kind of stuff that needs to be finished. I'm also finished with the majority. If it was a sandwich, I would have prepared the bread and greased the slices. Found peppers and cabbage and just neeedd to find one more topping and spice to make this a very good sandwich. Finally, I just want to say how happy I am with my life and excited to continue living it. P.S. I think I’m not good in anything special, I'm just avarage in all sorts of things. It also means I will never get anywhere because I do not focus on any one thing.

…annars bara frekar mygluð og hlökkum til að komast í sund (…otherwise a bit moldy and looking forward to going swimming again) is a collective piece devised during the first wave of Covid-19 cases in Iceland. The piece was Hákon Örn Helgasons’ final project from his 2nd year in ‘Theatre and Performance Making’ at IUA.

Video of the performance can be found here.
More about the piece here.

Director:
Hákon Örn Helgason

Devisors and performers:
Katrín Helga Ólafsdóttir, (Erna) Kanema Mashinkila, Magnús Thorlacius, Mio Storåsen

Recording:
Egill Ingibergsson