Burnt Toast

We’re in a bright crimson hotel lobby, somewhere in the deep American South. Betty’s nails clatter on the keyboard behind the reception desk. Danny arrives with a silver briefcase locked to his wrist. Violet sits drinking eggnogg, feeding her baby. They all just talk for a while. Playing heavily on the myriad clichés of a well-beaten landscape of core Americana, Burnt Toast plays initially into classic vibrant and cuddly social exchange, before tilting, slowly and hilariously into an increasingly troubled and absurdist sacrilegious descent. Time loses its footing, language begins to rot in joyfully painful repetition. Susie Wang makes theatre that is as darkly funny as it is disturbing, as tender as it is grotesque. Burnt Toast is part of Susie Wang's acclaimed horror trilogy exploring human nature, alongside The Hum and Mummy Brown: the latter awarded the Norwegian Critics' Prize for best theatre production of the 2019/20 season.

Susie Wang is an Oslo-based theater collective founded in 2017 by Trine Falch, Martin Langlie, Mona Solhaug, and Bo Krister Wallstrøm. After years of working within a performative tradition centered on the real and the immediate, their curiosity grew toward the theatrical unreal. As Susie Wang, they now create performances with characters and storylines, but always with cracks in them. As they put it themselves: Susie Wang grew up with a shattered worldview, and instead of showing the world in fragments, they pick up the pieces and reassemble them into dramatic stories