London, 8-17 May: The Coronet Theatre welcomes the international premiere of Einkvan (Everyman), a breathtaking new play by 2023 Nobel Prize-winner Jon Fosse, directed by Det Norske Teatret's Artistic Director, Kjersti Horn.

“A dark, erotic and unforgettable production.” – Aftenposten newspaper

A father, a mother, and a grown son make desperate attempts at connection. The son wants nothing to do with the parents. They look for him but he does not want to be found. Their struggles to communicate are intercepted by the echoes of people who look just like them – their mysterious doppelgängers.

Einkvan is a beautiful hybrid of contemporary art and theatre, interlocking the intimacy of film with the immediacy of live theatre. While the bodies that move about in front of our eyes are indistinct, obscured behind a translucent screen, two cameras vividly capture every intimate moment.

The theatre will be hosting a post-show Q&A with director Kjersti Horn on Mon 12 May for ticket holders.

In Norwegian (Nynorsk) with English surtitles.

Glasgow, 3-4 May: Among the highlights of this year's Tectonics Festival is an immersive symphonic experience where audiences wander freely through various spaces, featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Norwegian collective – composer Øyvind Torvund, electronic artist Jørgen Træen, jazz musician Kjetil Møster & percussionist Jennifer Torrence. There will also be two separate performances featuring the artists on the festival's second day.

Above: Composer Øyvind Torvund, by Dimitri Djuric

London, 22-23 April: Norwegian experimental theatre-makers Susie Wang brings Burnt Toast to Battersea Arts Centre, combining reality and surreal horror to create an experience that challenges the boundaries of human nature.

We find ourselves somewhere in the Deep South, in an all-red hotel lobby with a front desk and two elevators — one going up and one going down.

Betty, the receptionist, dutifully minds her desk as Danny arrives, chained to a mysterious silver briefcase. His attention soon turns to Violet—a woman sipping an eggnog cocktail while cradling her daughter. Could her child be his?

As their conversation deepens, questions spiral and danger unfolds, blending love and horror in a bloody descent into the unknown.

London, 3 May: Working in collaboration with British artist Morgan Quaintance, Abirami Logendran is curating a programme of recent artists' moving image works exploring transformative journeys of self-discovery at the ICA's Cinema 1.

The programme features works from international filmmakers including Xiaolu Wang, Rehana Zaman, Sarah Ballard and Emilija Škarnulytė, whose Norwegian co-production ALDONA was created during her time living in Tromsø, northern Norway, where she established the POLAR FILM LAB collective. The program celebrates diverse approaches to analog filmmaking and artistic expression.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with Abirami Logendran and Morgan Quaintance, moderated by London-based artist and filmmaker Chiemi Shimada.
The screening is supported by Office for Contemporary Art Norway. 

Above: Still from ALDONA, by Emilija Škarnulytė.

London, 3 May: Nils Petter Molvær is one of the most prominent performers within an electroacoustic, improvised/composed musical hybrid that has become a genre of its own.

A trumpet that knows how to capture both the polar ice caps and the burning desert sand, that can portray surging crowds just as well as total solitude, that loses itself but always finds the way back again. Molvaer has his own very individual sound.

Nils Petter Molvær will be playing two shows at Ronnie Scott's on 3rd May, together with Jo Berger Myhre on guitar/bass and Erland Dahlen on drums.

Above: Nils Petter Molvaer 2020 © Roberto Cifarelli.

London, until 10 May: A contemporary reimagining of Ibsen’s classic play Ghosts, directed by Artistic Director Rachel O’Riordan, comes to Lyric Hammersmith Theatre this Spring. 

Helena is a woman on a mission. Since the death of her high-flying husband, she has dedicated herself to reclaiming his legacy. And her hard work is about to pay off, with a new children’s hospital bearing his name on the brink of opening. But when their son Oz returns to the family home for the grand unveiling, he has ambitions of his own. Ambitions that threaten to unravel their family’s most tightly kept secrets.

This thrilling new version adapted by Gary Owen features a stellar cast: Patricia Allison (Sex Education; A Doll's House Part 2), Callum Scott Howells (It's a Sin; Cabaret; Romeo & Julie), Victoria Smurfit (Rivals, Bloodlands), Rhashan Stone (Tambo & Bones; Keeping Faith) and Deka Walmsley (Roots; Look Back in Anger).

Looking ahead: Marius Neset is among the first highlights recently announced for this year's EFG London Jazz Festival, which runs 14-23 November.

Marius Neset has spent the last two decades reimagining the sound palette of contemporary jazz, and has been working with the London Sinfonietta since 2016. Their collaboration will continue with a performance of new music at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. 

Photo by Helge Hansen.

Happening now

Edvard Munch Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery is the first exhibition in the UK to focus on this important, but sometimes overlooked, aspect of Munch's work. The exhibition shows how Munch painted portraits as commissions and for personal reasons, with many pictures doubling up as icons or examples of the human condition despite being based on the direct observation of named individuals. Until 15 June.

Iconic portraits from the pages of trailblazing magazine The Face are celebrated in a major exhibition, as fashion, music and pop-culture take center stage at the National Portrait Gallery, featuring images from celebrated photographer Sølve Sundsbø. Until 18 May.

Oliver Lovrenski's debut novel Back in the Day is released in English by Penguin imprint Hamish Hamilton, translated by Nichola Smalley. A sensation in Norway upon publication, Lovrenski gives voice to young men growing up in a brutal and chaotic world, shot through with rare empathy, irrepressible wit and gut-punch pathos.

A contemporary reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s classic, Ghosts, directed by Artistic Director Rachel O’Riordan, is at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre until 10 May.

Rock band Bokassa are on tour with 7 dates in the UK.

▶ 19- 25 April, London, Manchester, Bristol

A major player in the recent jazz house explosion, Dublon is coming to the Soul City Club Night at the Jazz Café in London, YES Pink room in Manchester, and Strange Brew in Bristol as part of a European tour.

▶ 19 - 20 & 26 April, Edinburgh & Dundee

Gro-Marthe Dickson is bringing her Scot trad project 'Letters to Christina' to Scotland for the first time, with performances as part of the Northern Streams festival at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh on 19 & 20 April, and in Dundee on the 26th.

▶ 22 - 23 April, London 

Norwegian experimental theatre-makers Susie Wang brings Burnt Toast to Battersea Arts Centre, a play that combines reality and surreal horror to create an experience that challenges the boundaries of human nature.

▶ 24 - 27 April, Chepstow, London, Liverpool

Following the release of their new album The Century of the Self, Airbag are playing 3 dates in Wales and England.

▶ 3 - 4 May, Glasgow

Music from Norway is on the lineup at Tectonics Festival, with Øyvind Torvund's symphony being performed by Kjetil Møster, Jørgen Træen, Jennifer Torrence and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, as well as separate concerts where the artists will be performing during the festival.

▶ 3 May, London

AURORA is playing the OVO Arena Wembley.

▶ 3 May, London

Nils Petter Molvær is playing two shows at Ronnie Scott's together with Jo Berger Myhre and Erland Dahlen.

▶ 8-17 May, London

Jon Fosse's Einkvan (Everyman) comes to Coronet Theatre in Notting Hill - a guest play from Det Norske Teatret, directed by Kjersti Horn. Einkvan is a beautiful hybrid of contemporary art and theatre, interlocking the intimacy of film with the immediacy of live theatre.

▶ 8-11 May, Various

Pom Poko are playing dates in Bristol, Oxford, Wrexham and Bedford.

▶ 8 May, London

Inspired by his summer trips to Norway and lifelong friendship with Grieg, Delius' The Song of the High Hills is on the programme as the Bach Choir perform with the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall.

▶ 9 May, London

Norwegian DJ, producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ora the Molecule is playing The Grace in Islington.

▶ 17 May - 10 August, Bristol

Kari Steihaug and Lise B. Linnert are among the artists included in the exhibition Soft Power: Lives told through textile art at the RWA in Bristol.

▶ 21 May, London

Jenny Hval is playing the Islington Assembly Hall, with music from her new album Iris Silver Mist.

▶ 21 May, London

Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is performing with Bertrand Chamayou at Wigmore Hall. György Kurtág’s lifelong love for the music of Schubert forms the backdrop to this delectable collaboration between Leif Ove Andsnes and Bertrand Chamayou, two performers who share a fascination for the infinite tonal gradations and inflections that can be coaxed from the piano.

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