“I’ve got goosebumps. One of us. It’s horrendous.”
July 2011. A far right terrorist has just massacred sixty-nine people, most of them students attending a Norwegian Labour Party Youth’s summer camp on the island of Utoya.
Gunnar and Malin have sent their daughter to the island, and desperately seek contact. On the farm next-door to the perpetrator’s, Petter and Inga realise their suspicions about him are well founded. At Central Command, Alf and Unni must decide on the best course of action in response to the attack.
A searing reflection on the domestic effects of societal trauma, Utoya offers a timely consideration of how tragedy can both bind people together and pull them further apart. This production is a UK Premiere from leading Italian writer Edoardo Erba.
“Utoya is a vital theatrical piece, enabling us to be moved and to try – perhaps – to understand” Media e Sipario
Content warnings: Strong language, reference to terrorist attack and death, racist and islamophobic attitudes.
Supported by: Sue Whitley OBE, Guy Stobart, Sue Heathcote and Bill Heathcote, WellTax, Anglo-Norse Society, Maria Bjӧrnson Memorial Fund, Com.It.Es di Londra, Italian Cultural Institute, Unity Theatre Trust and Cambridge Online Tutors.
