DISTANCE

A play for three performers

An ice-cream van drives down a high-street; any high-street. The driver of the ice-cream van will become known as ‘the perpetrator’. Distance is a mosaic of the lives touched, deeply or fleetingly, by the ripples expanding outward from that van. In the light of what transpires ordinary and seemingly unconnected events will suddenly take on new meaning.

Grønskag conjures up playful, breezy dialogue while all the while grappling with the most complex of issues. In Distance he examines the idea that nothing human is alien to us, regardless of how dark and how painful it is.

Distance was one of three plays chosen from the Cornerstone Open Call and performed the 2022 Bergen Dramatikkfestival by actors from The National Stage, Bergen.