Fearless Provocative Realities

Christian Lollike is one of the young, new dramatists who focus on reality and the world – political, existential and moral.  The themes dealt with in his theatre are deeply provocative – for example, mass rape, terrorism and suicide.
Lollike’s drama is driven by human curiosity. Lollike looks deep within the human being, into the core we all have in common, and follows it out into the decisive actions we take in our lives.  Good and evil.
His dramas force the viewer to think about what it is that makes some people commit atrocities, while others live completely ordinary lives.  And whether the roles could be reversed.  His project is to study the incomprehensible and to do theatre that challenges the audience to look at reality and the world differently than what is normal and accepted. His dramas raise questions but provide no answers.

His dramas have many radical shifts in style, tone and point of view.  Dramaturgically, they are non-linear and often created as discussions or monologues that form a mosaic of opinions.  They are carried by a complete fearlessness about what you can and cannot have on the stage.  Both with respect to form and content. Christian Lollike can serve up a disco song on the advantages of suicide clinics and create serious discussions about the extent to which hunger in Africa is a more beautiful work of art than the attack on the World Trade Center. His dramatic focus is on major contemporary issues but often equipped with a certain degree of humour, wrapped in deep morality and seriousness.
In recent years, Christian Lollike has produced several plays abroad, particularly in Germany, where Dom over skrig [Judgment on a Scream] premiered at Theater Halle 7 in Munich.

Current Productions

Underværket – The Re-mohammedty Show / The Wonder – The Re-mohammed-ty show
(2005)
Deals with terrorism and the hysterical media reality that increasingly diminishes humanity.
Premiered at Turbinehallerne/The Royal Danish Theatre. Also done as a radio play.

Dogville
(2004)
A dramatization of Lars von Trier's film by the same name about Grace, who seeks refuge in the American mining town of Dogville and is only allowed to stay, because the sceptical and hostile citizens in the town discover how they can misuse her.
Performed in Athens 2004 and at the National Venue of Theater in Bergen, February 2006.

Dom over skrig / Verdict of a Scream
(2004)
The play investigates the mechanisms that make a group of ordinary boys commit mass rape.  The story is told alternately through inner monologue and dialogues during a trial in which the judge gives his own thoughts about what happened and the reason it happened.
Premiere in Århus. Has been performed at Theater Halle 7 in Munich, January 2006.
 
Undskyld gamle, hvor finder jeg tiden, kærligheden og den galskab der smitter / Excuse me, you geezers, but where do I find time, love and an infectious madness
(2003)
A play about old people in a nursing home and love.
Premiered at the Odense Theatre, 2004. Has been performed at the Borås City Theatre, Sweden and at Theater Halle 7 in Munich 2005.

Review Extracts

”The deed itself is described in such a way that it is vivid to everyone; but, at the same time, Lollike’s advanced sense of linguistic rhythm and non-linear dramaturgy negates any sense of the sensational.”
Berlingske Tidende (DK), Dom over skrig

”Der Dogma-Author Lollike zeichnet die Welt des Pflegeheims skurril und sarkastisch, aber auch poetisch und surreal”.
Gabriella Lorenz, AZ Kritik, Undskyld gamle at the premiere in Munich. 

”Lollike’s exuberant piece leaps between brutal poetry, ethereal dream play, and farcical slapstick … It is funny and touching, thought-provoking and gripping.”
Dagens Nyheter (SE), Undskyld gamle