Festival for independent
performing arts

  • Copenhagen January 14-18, 2025

  • Aarhus January 21-25, 2025

Mit Barndomsalfabet
DraumVærk (DK)

Duration: 70 minutes. Age: Minimum 16 years. Language: Danish.

What is your clearest childhood memory? In an intense and poetic tour-de-force, the performer Lotus Lykke Skov takes the audience on a shivering journey into a pitch-dark memory chamber. In the dark, she evokes the strongest, happiest, most difficult, most ordinary and most distinctive memories from a childhood stretched between two identities. One at mother's and another at father's. 

My Childhood Alphabet is a powerful story, staged as an engaging performance in a pitch-dark room for 24 participating audiences at a time. A moving, intimate, and sound-filled experience for adults of all ages, created as a tribute to community, poetry and the inner child in the sentient body. 

ABOUT DRAUMVÆRK
DraumVærk is a theater and performing arts laboratory that creates performances and artistic processes between engaging sensory theater and poetic storytelling. The artistic practice is rooted in the question: What can happen if the fundamental way we experience the world and ourselves is through open and curious perception? DraumVærk was founded by performer, stage director and artistic director Lotus Lykke Skov.

THE PRESS WROTE 
"In alphabetical order from A to Z, Lotus Lykke Skov shares memories from her childhood. B for bryllup (wedding), when the mother marries a new man, R for Renselse (purification), Ø for Øvelse (exercise) (…) There are concrete stories, memories of specific feelings and memories of all the things– good or bad – which has shaped the adult human. (...) a delight that this type of sensory experiences is also created for adults.”
- ★★★★☆☆ Trine Wøldiche, iscene.dk

CREDITS

PLAYWRIGHT, AUTHOR & DIRECTOR: Lotus Lykke Skov
PERFORMER: Lotus Skov
DRAMATURG: Theresa Grønning
COSTUME DESIGNER: Amanda Siggaard
LIGHTING DESIGN: DimsOs

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