CURRENT AND UPCOMING PROJECTS:
ÞETTA ER LADDI / THIS IS LADDI
A new biographical production by Ólafur Egill Egilsson that explores and tries to answer the question who is Laddi? And where does the humor that has been intertwined with the nation's laughter for nearly half a century come from? This show offers a glimpse into Laddi's mind, explores the origins of his beloved characters, examines the evolution of Icelandic comedy, and unveils the man behind the jokes. Above all, it promises laughter and gratitude for all the joy he has brought. It’s an unforgettable production about an extraordinary man who has become a national treasure and a household name.
Premiers in Reykjavík City Theatre in March 2025
SOFT SHELL
Soft Shell is an ongoing research project initiated by choreographer Katrín Gunnarsdóttir in 2020.
It investigates how various audio and visual stimuli can trigger a meditative state and tingling sensation. Drawing from the aesthetics and content of ASMR videos, Soft Shell explores how and if these sensations can be evoked as bodies interact with installations and costumes that play with various textures, shapes, colors and different levels of transparency.
Premiers in Tjarnarbíó in April 2025
AGNES
Costume design for new opera by Daniel Bjarnason.
Stage director Rodula Gaitanou. Commisioned by The Icelandic Opera.
Dates to be announced.
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Eva Signý Berger (b.1981) is a freelance stage and costume designer based in Reykjavík, Iceland. She has designed over 40 productions and has received multiple nominations for Gríman, The Icelandic Theatre awards for her work in both stage and costume design. She works in theatre, dance, puppetry and opera and has designed for short films and fine art projects. In 2019 she represented Iceland at PQ - The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design.
In 2007 Eva completed her BA degree in Design for Performance at Central Saint Martins in London, where she discovered and developed an interest in devised and site specific performance, physical theatre and puppetry. The experimental and innovative nature of these genres influenced the way she thinks about design and approaches her practice, while working over a broad scale of genres and differrent styles of perormance.
The diversity of the work and its collaborative nature is what drives Eva as an artist. She has a deep passion for the performing arts, their fleeting quality and the intuitive yet structured nature of the creative process. She is interested in communication and how one can speak to the subconscious of an audience through the visual.
Eva has designed small and large scale productions for The National Theatre of Iceland, Reykjavík City Theatre, The Icelandic Opera, The Icelandic Dance Company, Akureyri Culture Company, The University of the Arts Iceland and many indipendant theatre and dance companies in Iceland.
In 2015 Eva started working with choreographer Katrín Gunnarsdóttir and currently they are working on their 8th and 9th pieces together. Through their collaboration Eva has been able to explore the development of ideas and visual elements from one performance to another and how recurring themes can be represented visually throught different visual representation. Together they have created a body of work that explores softness, sensitivity, ever-changing movement and the integration of bodies with their environment. In their creative process the visual and the choreographical influence each other right from the beginning and are allowed to develop simultaneously to the point where one would not exist without the other. In their most recent performance, ALDA, they experiment with shedding the time constraint and structure of the theatre environment, creating a durational dance performance in the context of fine art and the gallery.
Eva also has had a long standing artistic collabroation with fine artist, director, performer and puppeteer Helga Arnalds of 10 fingers theatre company. In her work with Helga she has had the opperturnity to explore devising methods where the visual and material is at the center of the creative process.