Somehow I’m done witting about the deadly routine that Reykjavik nightlife is ! Things are going the same over and over. You just sometimes meet some new faces. But no one worth mentioning.
I went to the theater to watch the premiere of Best í heimi on Saturday. I wasn’t really excited as I experienced a pretty awkward situation last week in another play. I know that watching a play in an almost unknown language can be arshe but it give you an idea of local humor or more local culture. This time for Best í heimi I didn’t left half-way. Better, I loved it. The play is starring 3 women and 1 man playing different roles depending on the situation. All actors aren’t Icelandic (French, British, Greek and Argentinian). A rough translation in English was subtitled on the wall on top of the scene so one could follow. Funny and entertaining I was very impressed by one actor acting scene. Actually a friend in ‘real life’ I know that he can’t barely speak Icelandic but he did such a fantastic acting job that everybody wouldn’t even notice that.
The playBest í heimi (Best in the World) is a satirical treatment of the manifold situations that unavoidably arise when people with different cultural and social backgrounds meet. Especially when they meet on the home ground of the Icelanders, who all rest comfortably in the firm believe that everything Icelandic is by definition the “Best in the World, be it the landscape, the people, the Reykjavík nightlife, the Icelandic women, and the gumption to do things without too much ado about nothing beforehand.
The play is based on the improvisations on the groups personal experiences as well as conducting a number of interview with foreigners living in Iceland. All this was put together by the director Maria Reyndal and playwright Hævar Sigurjónsson to form an evenings entertainment where the foreign eye on all things Icelandic prevails.
