Happiness UNLTD vol. 2
– A pop-up agency for escapist happiness trips
The travel agency HAPPINESS UNLTD takes over a shop in Helsingør Bycenter, offering a wide range of escapist happiness trips: sensory performance art, feel-good music, and endorphin-stimulating taste bombs that send the happiness barometer through the roof. Inside the travel agency, experiences await for all the senses.
Drop by HAPPINESS UNLTD – and leave with a smile on your face!
BOOK A SPECIAL GUIDED TOUR
You can also choose to go all the way; try your luck and embark on an all-exclusive guided tour – a kind of safari into the land of happiness. At HAPPINESS UNLTD, some of Denmark’s leading happiness trainers are ready to be your guides!
Economists, top politicians, and coaches around the world are working hard to improve every country’s happiness account – the Gross National Happiness. They are trying to figure out what carrot can make the donkey lift its head and move forward. But in Denmark, things are going the wrong way! Come and help us cultivate new, possible hunting grounds for happiness experiences. What does it take to get out of the mud pit and to the top of the happiness list? What is happiness really? How can it be measured? And what happens to our self-understanding when happiness is formulated and becomes a commodity?
You can come and go as you please during the agency’s opening hours.
The agency’s special guided tours last 50 minutes.
THE PRESS WROTE
★★★★★ Simply enter their fantastic universe, which is a total theater performance in a shop on Frederiksgade … and let yourself be amazed, experience warmth, friendliness, humor and life affirmation. The agency itself is quite free and the most wonderful trip of happiness only costs a bare fifty.
– 8000.dk
★★★★ With Annika B. Lewis at the helm as the idea maker and director, also this time ‘Happiness Unltd’ succeeds in planting a trail that will not just go into oblivion.
– Aarhus Stiftstidende
It strikes a kinky balance between silly play and unbearable truth. Because we really do behave like polite charter tourists along the way. But we also feel the happiness industry really breathing down our necks. This funny parody was previously produced with Bora Bora in Aarhus, but it has now fortunately come to Zealand, also thanks to Teater FÅR302. It is definitely my funniest visit to Fisketorvet ever.
– Anne Middelboe – Information
★★★★ We are let out a little more as a team than when we went in … because we are overstepping our boundaries a bit together.”
– Iscene.dk
CREDITS
Idea and direction Annika B. Lewis
Cast Kasper Daugaard Poulsen, Annika B. Lewis, Helene Kvint, Lisbeth Sonne Andersen, Maria Naidu, Johan Svensson, Line Svendsen
Dramaturg Anne Hübertz Brekne
Scenographer Mette Lyhne og Filippa Berglund
Music Jens Mønsted, Anders Krøyer
Sound journey Adriana Aburto Essén med Frangie
Lighting designer Mads Vegas
Video Jens Mønsted, Georgios Giokotos
Technical execution and assistance Inuk Thomsen
Producer Ann-Jette Caron
Photos Jacob Stage og Annika B. Lewis
Video trailer Jacob Stage
Grafik Helge Dürrfeld, The Art Com
SUPPORTED BY
The Danish Arts Foundation and the City of Copenhagen, in co-production with Bora Bora, and in collaboration with theater FÅR 302, CPH Stage festival and Passage festival.
