the Krumple

23/04/2026

Echoes #5 — Traces of performances

SOLA
Calm the monkey mind

“The Human is a cretaure of the present, who ondulates with calm in the Unknown like… fish” With these words, a strange clown-spirit introduces us to a world that is “beyond what our senses can perceive”. With a range of silly movements and curious demonstrations he will tell us the story of Sébatian, a young man who is soon to become a father but who is feeling far from ready. Together they embark on a journey into the human’s mind to find out where the worries are coming from. Can a poetic way of seeing the events of a life change their narrative ?

SOLA is a playful, offbeat and diverse solo performance, which finds its inspiration at the crossroads between philosophical inquiries, ancient spiritual traditions and slapstick comedy. The performance is a co-production with Teater Vestland, Fossekleiva kultursenter og Berger museum and PreForm, supported by Kulturdirektoratet/Kulturrådet and Dramatikkens hus, and had its premiere at Teaterfestivalen i Fjaler on September 9th 2021.

Written, performed and co-directed by: Vincent Vernerie
Co-directed by: Jo Even Bjørke
Dramaturg and producer: Oda Kirkebø Nyfløtt
Development and scenography: Frode Gjerløw
Lighting design: Agathe Patonnier
Sound design: Cédric Colin
Light-technician: Yasin Gyltepe
Sound technician: Paulucci Bakke
Costume-assistance: Madeleine F. Røseth and Madeleine Barosen Herholdt
Photos: David Zadig
Video: Johannes Laukeland Fester Sunde

International :
Production : Victor De Tuckheim

France :
Administration / Production : Noémie Schreiber

14/04/2026

First week of residency at .
The very first steps of a new project.

Opening the space. Listening. Trying things.
Searching for gestures, images, and silences.

Every creation begins like this, in exploration, curiosity, and the fertile uncertainty of not knowing yet.

Happy to begin this journey with the team. and Vincent Vernerie

A week to explore, to test, to get a little lost, and definitely discover something unexpected.

Here we go!

Preproject supported by and Scenekunst+ 🙏

20/03/2026

Echoes #4 — Traces of performances

PIGEON SUPERSTITION

Magic, choreography, space and sound installation are the main ingredients in this peculiar performance, which examines fanatically pecking pigeon’s similarities with humans in a digital age.

The audience is guided through a series of experiments inspired by famous professor in behaviour psychology, B.F. Skinner, and his work with pigeons post WWII.

As the audience is presented with the results of Skinner’s experiments, similarities start to appear between the pigeons’ fanatically pecking and the contemporary human’s addiction to new technologies. The pigeon pecks a button and gets food. The human taps his smartphone and receives a notification. But to which extent are we manipulated by the designers of these digital tools, that trigger this behaviour in us? Thanks to Skinner and his pigeons the performance examines the psychological mechanisms behind digital-addiction and asks - how free is the free will?

The rich and very original sound design of the performance is created installatively with 10 different audio outputs, accompanied by 78 autonome output devices. Thus, the whole space constitutes one big instrument for the sound composition of the performance, moving from the stage, above and around the audience, to end up right in the pocket of each individual audience member.

Concept & performer:
Staging & set designer:
Sound artist & composer: C.S. Sørensen
Stage direction & dramaturgy :
Light design: &
Sound engineer: /
Costumes: camillalind180
Set design assistent: Frederikke Krogh
Dramaturgical consultant: Trine Wisbech
Choreographic consultant:
Tech-wizard:
Magic consultant:
Construction & technician: tarabini
Construction: , & Sjakker Jensby Jacobsen
Production :
Vidéo :
Photos : Raphaël Solholm

Co-production: Supported by , , William Demant Foundation, , DRAC Pays de la Loire, , Magic Wip / Cie Le Phalène,

06/03/2026

Echoes #3 — Traces of performances

MEGAMEGA

Have you experienced it? The moment when everything you held on to turned to powder and dust, or confetti and fireworks. During a night or a bottle of wine, or just a split second - when your whole life suddenly turns upside down. We all visit that moment again and again.

MEGAMEGA is about people who are in the middle of a crossroad, where the world suddenly opens up, closes or collapses in front of them.

There is always a before and an after. In MEGAMEGA, the Krumple collectively explores these specific moments of total change and confusion with the only tools that we believe can help - imagination and enchantment. In a board game of human scale, full of surprises and magic.

Concept and co-direction: Vincent Vernerie

Co-creators and performers: David Tholande, Léna Rondé, Oda Kirkebø Nyfløtt, Maja Be**en, Vincent Vernerie

Costume design and scenography: the Krumple

Outside Eye: Jo Even Bjørke

Composer: Marte Røyeng

Lighting design: Markus Tarasenko Fadum

Magic Consultant: Kevin Lunde

Choreographic Assistance: Catherine Béziex

Sound technician: Michael Dahlen

Stage manager: Sigrun Breck Oustad

Stagehand: Eugenio B Morales

Set painter: Barbro Be**en

Producers (NO): Kari Dæhlin / the Krumple
Producers (FR):Cross Media Culture / Collectif Krumple

Set, props and costumes produced by: Teater Innlandet.

Co-produced by: Teater Innlandet.

Supported by: Arts Council Norway, Fund for Sound and Image, SPEDIDAM.

Photos: Magnus Skrede

08/01/2026

Echoes #1 — Traces of performances

DÉJÀ is inspired by the award-winning graphic novel “Here” by Richard McGuire.
It takes place in a single location, 20 square meters of a living room, but on a massive timeframe - reaching deep into the past (80 006 032 BCE) and projecting into the future (7 billion CE).
Multiple characters from different times coexist and interact in this space, and create an accumulation of cocktail parties, arguing couples, geiger counters, a fire, a flooding, arrivals and farewells.

Through expressive movement, magical illusion, puppetry, and striking imagery, we sought to create a living time-capsule of the current moment, everything that has led up to it, and project where humanity might be going. It questions our significance, or rather - our insignificance, faced with the passing of time.

The project is a co-production with , , and is supported by , Hus, , , Danish Arts Foundation, SPENN, l’Espace Périphérique, L’Akuarium and SPEDIDAM.

The show premiered at in 2019

With and by the Krumple: , , , Vincent Vernerie and .
Outside eye: Gwendolyn Warnock.
Lighting design: .gondrexon.
Sound design: CS Sørensen.
Set design: Caroline Ginet.
Costumes: Sylvie Berthou and Vilde Jensen Hjetland.
Dramaturgical assistance: .
Choreographical assistance:
Set construction: .lucassen and Jane Erik Skarby.
Set assistants: Fabien Saleil and Pia Rondé.
Sound assistants: and .losnegard.
Stage manager: Holly Taylor.
Props assistant: Pauline Schill.
Light technician: .
Sound technician: Cédric Colin.
Stage technician: Sylvain Augé.
Video: Ole Marius Dahl.

31/12/2025

Goodbye 2025, and thank you for the many precious moments ! From the French premiere of Pigeon Superstition at in February, to the world premiere of Chimera at in May, then touring DÉJÀ in China at in June, presenting Chimera to French audiences at in November, before finishing off with another French tour of YOKAI at in December, celebrating its 10 year anniversary. Combined, all of these particular moments made this a special Krumple year.

We’re looking back with gratitude to our amazing collaborators and audiences for sharing their precious time with us, for the funding bodies putting faith in each project, and for whoever’s following our journey onwards, well, for doing just that. And, not least, we nudge with gratitude to each other, as a collective, for still choosing to create and perform together after now more than a decade as co-artistic directors, theatre family, friends and colleagues. We keep hearing that it’s a rare thing we’ve got going, and we sure agree on that.

New projects are already in motion, slowly taking shape for the years to come.

Now, hello 2026, we are ready for you. 💫

Photo: Dorota Milewicz

21/12/2025

We are proud to share the new teaser of our last work: CHIMERA

In a multidisciplinary blend of physical and visual theatre, new magic and live music, we aim to challenge our perception of the world that surrounds us, and questions humans’ role as the planet’s protagonists to suggest an alternative coexistence.

Just like the signification of the mythical Chimera, which is described as an unrealistic, or unrealizable, wild, foolish or vain dream, the six artists of the Krumple keep trying to hybridise and transform through this performance — be it into stone, tree, bird, earth or cloud — intertwining with various forms of life, in an attempt to rediscover their own. With Chimera they invite us to join them in this hypnotic and playful state, where the boundaries between beings become porous.

Chimera premiered on May 30th 2025, at the Stamsund Teaterfestival in Norway. French premiere at Théâtre Victor Hugo Bagneux on November 14th.

With and by the Krumple: David Tholander, Léna Rondé, Oda Kirkebø Nyfløtt, Vincent Vernerie and Vanessa Mecke
Musician: Alice Picaud
Outside eye: Jo Even Bjørke and Yngvild Aspeli
Lighting design: Claire Gondrexon
Sound design: CS Sørensen
Set design: Kjersti Alm Eriksen
Costumes: the Krumple
Dramaturgical assistance: Yngvild Aspeli
Set construction: Tim Lucassen and Jan Erik Skarby
Sound technician: Cédric Colin
Stage technician: François Pelaprat
Light technician: Agathe Patonnier

Video: Ole Marius Dahl

International :
Production / Booking : Victor De Tuckheim

France :
Administration / Production : Noémie Schreiber
Diffusion : Label Saison

Project co-produced by Figurteatret i Nordland
Supported by the Arts Council of Norway (Kulturdirektoratet), Nordland fylkeskommune, Østfold Internasjonale Teater, Théâtre la Halle Roublot, Spedidam, Nordisk kulturkontakt and Culture Moves Europe

This is "Teaser Chimera" by The Krumple on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

11/12/2025

9 wonderful performances 🔥

the Krumple has received travel support from PAHN - Performing Art Hub Norway through the funding scheme financed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for YŌKAI’s tour in France.

06/12/2025

✨For 14. gang inntar norsk scenekunst New York i samarbeid med La MaMa✨

Den 12. januar 2026 inviterer La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club i samarbeid med PAHN og Norway in New York til en dag dedikert til å fremme scenekunst fra Norge for et internasjonalt publikum. Arrangementet er støttet av Utenriksdepartmentet!

Arrangementet finner sted parallelt med Under The Radar Festival, APAP - Association of Performing Arts Professionals og ISPA | International Society for the Performing Arts i januar 2026, som samler scenekunstbransjen fra hele verden i New York.

12 utvalgte kunstnere og kompanier presenterer sine verker 🤩

Yaniv Cohen – Y to C Dance
Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt - Norwegian Contemporary Dance Company
CJPM Productions / Corentin JPM
T**S performance group
LiLi Re
the Krumple
Maritea Dæhlin
Kate Pendry
Direct Action Theatre
De Utvalgte
Plexus polaire - Yngvild Aspeli - France / Norway
ONLY SLIME

– les mer om dem her: https://www.pahn.no/norway-now-2026

Har du tenkt til å reise til New York i Januar 2026? Ta gjerne kontakt for å delta på våre arrangementer.
Les mer, lenke i kommentarfeltet👇

📷Foto: Direct Action Theatre/Serve and Protect: Harald Fossen

27/11/2025

We're thrilled to take YOKAI to the stage in Strasbourg next week, at TJP CDN Strasbourg-Grand Est !

27/11/2025

✨ Some words linger long after the lights go down.

We create in doubt. We rehearse, adjust, start again.

And then one day, someone in the audience writes a few lines.
Words that illuminate the entire journey 📝

That’s why we’re sharing some of the most beautiful reviews of our shows with you. Not just critiques, but traces of our risks, our energy, your shared emotions. 🎭

Coming soon: we’ll tell you about our works, one by one. Our story, scene by scene. 🌟

Thank you for being here for what’s next 🙏
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