Get set for an entertaining, mind-bending double bill in a cabaret setting, when Endangered Productions brings back its pre-lockdown hit NORDIC NOIR… for a whole new Sydney audience!

Despite the challenges of COVID, Nordic Noir played to sell-out houses in December 2020.

Audiences laughed and gasped at the unexpected twists in Virus - a Fugue.

Equally popular were the beautiful musical excerpts from Grieg’s Peer Gynt – subtitled “Tall Tales & Trolls"!

First up is a selection of Grieg’s glorious music written for Peer Gynt - Ibsen’s iconic play about identity, narcissism and delusion - performed by some of Sydney’s most talented chamber musicians, dancers and singers.

Much-loved excerpts include “The Hall of the Mountain King”,“Arabian Dance”, “Morning” and “Solveig’s Song”.

After interval is the new one-act play Virus - a Fugue, by contemporary Norwegian playwright Fredrik Brattberg.

It makes merry with the principles of fugal composition as normally heard in music – interweaving rich, multilayered themes that follow and echo.

The play is accompanied by a newly composed score based on Bach’s “Little” Fugue in G minor.

It also reflects our COVID times and develops in very surprising ways, according to director Christine Logan.

“The result is humorous, surprising… and even a little disturbing!”

“It was a wild ride to produce our Norwegian double bill in less than three months under COVID restrictions, but we did it… and astoundingly successfully! We have more room now under freer current conditions and this wonderful larger venue… but it’s all still strictly according to the best safety practice. Just even more joyous!”

Other well-known Sydney creatives behind Nordic Noir include musical director Peter Alexander, designer Karen Lambert, dramaturg May-Brit Akerholt and choreographer Ruth Brent. Plus a cast of more than 15 actors, singers, dancers… and puppeteers!