The Norwegians by C. Denby Swanson
A strong, bitter comedy about women scorned in Minnesota and the really, really nice gangsters—Norwegian hit men—they hire to whack their ex-boyfriends. Olive is a transplant from Texas and Betty is a transplant from Kentucky, but neither of them was prepared for the Norwegian men they would fall in love with there: the practical, warm, thoughtful, destructive, evil, jilting kind. If you're a hit man in Minnesota, 83% of your clients want to take out their ex (oofda!). Betty has referred Olive to Gus and Tor, a partnership in the whacking business. What Tor doesn't know is that Gus has been sleeping with the clients. What Olive doesn't know is that Gus is Betty's own ex, and she has already put out a hit on him with a Swiss firm. Can Betty call off the job in time to let Gus do his? Should she?
The Production Team |
Cast |
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Jennifer Schlueter...................................................Director
Shelby Brewster.............Assistant Director and Dramaturg Joshua Quinlan.....................................Costume Designer Tré Reese.................................................Scenic Designer Joshua Poston.........................................Lighting Designer Ruth Luketic...............................................Sound Designer Constance Hester.......................................Stage Manager Mary Maxwell..............................Assistant Stage Manager |
Gus................................................Cameron Schneider
Tor................................................Keegan Robert Doyle Olive.........................................................Kathryn Miller Betty.....................................................Alexandra Davis |
About Raw Theatre
The Norwegians is the inaugural Raw Theatre production in The Ohio State University Department of Theatre's season. The goals of Raw Theatre are threefold:
- To extend our mainstage production season by one small cast, low tech production per academic year in order to offer more students the opportunity to practice their crafts in faculty-directed production.
- To offer students the opportunity to undertake small-cast work, prohibited by our need to find large-cast shows in order to offer necessary student acting opportunity, with minimal design resources but with integrity and imagination.
- To demonstrate to students—in the cast, in the production team, and in the audience--how to think beyond the boundaries of traditional production and find low-tech, low-impact solutions that suit the work at hand.
