Á BOTNINUM
STAGE AND COSTUME DESIGN
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The classic play about a group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter is set in a modern setting. The landlord rents out storage cages as living spaces.
The audience enters from the outside into a corridor of storage rooms and piles of junk.
you can watch a video of the performance here
The Iceland Academy of the Arts: Acting Department 2011
The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorki
Translation by Megas
Director: Rúnar Guðbrandsson
Lighting: Egill Ingibergsson
Music and sound: Björn Halldór Helgason
Actors: Hjörtur Jóhann Jónsson, Kolbeinn Arnbjörnsson, Olga Sonja Thorarensen, Ólöf Haraldsdóttir, Pétur Ármannsson, Saga Garðarsdóttir, Sara Margrét Nordahl, Sigurður Þór Óskarsson, Snorri Engilbertsson and Tinna Sverrisdóttir.
Photographs by Zeno Vaclavic