Hotel Loteria
Hotel Loteria is a site-specific theatre experience in a secret location and is performed in English and Norwegian.
18+. Bring a game or your mother.
The performance was produced in Mexico in 2017 and had its premiere during Høstscena the same year. The performance is played in a hotel, and we perform 24 hours a day.
The public orders a ticket for the performance by calling our hotel reception. There, they are checked in to a performance at a time and date that suits them.
Each performance lasts 15 - 25 minutes. Hotel Loteria consists of 10 such performances.
The role of the audience
The audience's role is redefined for each episode so that every time you seek out a new experience, it is not only a new room, a new story, but also the actor's relationship with you, the spectator, has changed. But you are never asked to play a character - you come as yourself and are yourself.
The experiences are designed to have different audience capacities - from 1 to 8 participants.
Entering a universe alone is challenging because it breaks with the herd mentality and being able to hide among others, which often happens in a traditional theatre. In contrast to a separation between stage and auditorium, the audience will help shape the encounter between the performer, the story and themselves. In the episodes themselves, we have included variations and space for improvisation with each individual spectator, which gives the experience that this was 'only for them'. It is also a challenge for the public to dare to seek out something they don't quite know what it is - what do I meet inside the hotel? Who am I and who am I meeting? Who am I experiencing this with? The audience's experience where they have to venture in completely alone or perhaps together with one other person they do not know, is different to where they are together as a group.
Our experience with this as a festival concept is that it both becomes a talking point and that those who experience one episode will want to experience all the others as well. When the audience talks about what they have experienced, they often have not experienced the same thing, and this triggers a curiosity in the festival audience.
