Vesturport has quickly established itself as one of Iceland’s most inventive award-winning theater and film companies. Known for innovative productions that challenge traditional performance text, the Reykjavik-based ensemble has been called “one of Europe’s most exciting theatre ensembles†by The Guardian (UK). In just seven years, the company has produced three full length feature films and eleven theater productions. Vesturport has from the start received wide audience and critical acclaim and won numerous awards for its work both at home and abroad.
According to BBC news, their shows have been such critical successes, doing what is almost impossible in today’s multimedia society; attracting a new fashionable young audience to the theatre. And, with their continued following of fans, Vesturport, it seems, have helped flamboyant physical theatre one step nearer becoming mainstream entertainment. As Evening Standard (UK) portrays Vesturport’s founder GÃsli Örn Garðarsson; "No one blazes a trail of theatrical excitement and thrilling invention quite like the Icelandic actor/director GÃsli Gardarsson".
The company has, furthermore, produced the independent twin features CHILDREN and PARENTS directed by Ragnar Bragason. CHILDREN premiered in the fall of 2006, while PARENTS was released in January 2007. Vesturport's new feature film SURF is currently in post production and will be launched in 2009
Check out Vesturport's trailer from Children, Parents, Woyzeck and Metamorphosis below. The music to Vesturport's critically acclaimed interpretations of both Woyzeck and Metamorphosis was composed by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.
Metamorphosis trailer
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Woyzeck
Metamorphosis
Surf (Brim)
Woyzeck trailer
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