CURRENT AND UPCOMING PROJECTS:
GALDRAKARLINN Í OZ
Premiers at Reykjavík City Theatre on January 24th 2026
Follow Dorothy and her dog Toto down the Yellow Brick Road in this magical new production of The Wizard of Oz! Along the way, they’ll meet talking scarecrows, flying monkeys, and wicked witches — and discover the power of friendship, courage, and home.
Based on L. Frank Baum’s classic story and the beloved 1939 film starring Judy Garland, this family favorite features unforgettable songs like Somewhere Over the Rainbow and We’re Off to See the Wizard.
Directed by Þórunn Arna Kristjánsdóttir, known for Emil of Lönneberga and Fíasól Never Gives Up, this sparkling production brings the wonder and adventure of Oz to life for audiences of all ages.
NOW SHOWING:
SKAMMARÞRÍHYRNINGURINN
Showing now at Reykjavík City Theatre
The Triangle of Shame unfolds in a distant future — a world where the culture war is long over. Gender autonomy, queer rights, and women’s liberation are relics of history. The backlash has triumphed.
At the dimmed end of the rainbow, a team of experts is preparing the grand opening of a new museum dedicated to the “dark age of political correctness” — the era we now live in. Their task, however, is far from simple: all the books have been burned, the archives erased, and human diversity outside a strict binary system has been banned and censored out of existence.
SOFT SHELL
Next performance at RDF at Tjarnarbíó on
Sunday November 16th
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.
ÞETTA ER LADDI
Showing now at Reykjavík City Theatre
This is Laddi is 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.
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Eva Signý Berger
(b. 1981)
Eva Signý Berger is a freelance stage and costume designer based in Reykjavík, Iceland. She has designed over fifty productions across theatre, dance, puppetry, and opera, and has received multiple nominations for the Icelandic Theatre Awards – Gríman for her work in both stage and costume design. In addition to her performing arts work, Eva has designed for short films and fine art projects. In 2019, she represented Iceland at PQ – The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design.
Eva holds a BA in Design for Performance from Central Saint Martins, London (2007), where she discovered a deep interest in devised and site-specific performance, physical theatre, and puppetry. The experimental and innovative nature of these art forms continues to influence her approach to design, shaping a practice that spans diverse genres and styles of performance.
The collaborative nature and diversity of her projects in scale and nature are what drive Eva as an artist. She has a profound passion for the performing arts — their fleeting quality, their balance between intuition and structure, and their unique capacity to communicate through the visual. Her work explores how design can speak to the subconscious of an audience and enhance the emotional language of performance.
Eva has created designs for The National Theatre of Iceland, Reykjavík City Theatre, The Icelandic Opera, The Icelandic Dance Company, Akureyri Culture Company, Iceland University of the Arts, and numerous independent theatre and dance companies across Iceland. Over the course of her career, she has worked with more than 30 directors, choreographers, and visual artists, many of whom she continues to collaborate with regularly, while also embracing new creative partnerships.
Since 2015, Eva has collaborated closely with choreographer Katrín Gunnarsdóttir. Their ongoing collaboration explores how visual and choreographic ideas evolve from one performance to the next — how recurring themes can be expressed through shifting visual forms. Together, they have developed a distinctive body of work that examines softness, sensitivity, fluid movement, and the integration of bodies with their environment. In their creative process, the visual and choreographic elements emerge side by side, influencing each other from the very beginning — to the point where one could not exist without the other. Their recent piece, ALDA (2022), experiments with removing the traditional constraints of time and theatrical structure, creating a durational dance performance within the context of fine art and the gallery spaces.
Eva also has a long-standing artistic collaboration with two puppeters and visual artists. Helga Arnalds, fine artist, director, performer, and puppeteer (10 Fingers Theatre Company) has in the last 10 years turned her practice increasingly towards visual devising methods using materials such as paper, plastic, soil, and shadows. With her collaborators they experiment in order to engage with the imagination of the spectator through the sensorial - visual language.
During her BA studies in 2006, Eva interned with master puppeteer Bernd Ogrodnik of Worlds of Puppets. As well introducing her to the intricates and endless possibilities of puppetry Bernd went on to hire Eva as a designer following her graduation. They have since collaborated on a number of productions, most recently his semi-autobiographical solo Play and puppetry spectacular, The Puppetmaster (2020).