"Lovable duo” The Scotsman
Direct from their critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe debut comes TROLL: an award-winning two-troll, clown comedy about connection, scape(goat)ing and being misunderstood.
Fed up with years of misrepresentation, villanization and exclusion, two trolls find themselves in a theatre, ready and desperate to tell their side of the story and the truth about those three goats. Inspired by Norwegian folklore, Troll is a heartwarming mash-up of music, storytelling, audience interaction, physical theatre and clown.
The show has previously been performed at Underbelly (Edinburgh Fringe 2023), Camden People’s Theatre (London), SALT (Oslo Fringe), Resort Komedii (Warsaw) and Brighton Spiegeltent (Brighton Fringe)
Music in the show is composed by Chris Larner
"charming clowns” The Telegraph
THE TEAM
Marie Kallevik Straume (Performer & producer) studied at École Jacques Lecoq and LAMDA. She's taken clown courses with Phillippe Gaulier, Spymonkey and Angela de Castro. Marie is a co-founder/performer/producer of the theatre company mågå productions. Mågå was founded in 2020 and in 2023 they will open their third show.
Instagram: @mariekallevik
Anna Marie Simonsen (Performer & producer) graduated w/BA in Drama & Theatre Arts from Goldsmith University 2019. She’s a SOHO Theatre alumni and received a 1 year artist grant from Arts Council Norway in 2022. Her one-woman show, Naughty, won Oslo Fringe’s Funniest Moment Award 2021 and described as “flirtatiously disturbing” (Edfringe Review), later toured in the UK and Norway
Instagram and Twitter: @annamariess
Cecily Nash (Director) is a graduate of École Jacques Lecoq, and has worked as an actor and theatre maker for over a decade with credits including The Campers (current tour), The Frida Kahlo of Penge West (OffWestEnd nomination for Lead Performance in a Play), The Wind in the Willows, Widows Walk (feature film) and various voice works including channel 5's The Floogals.
Instagram: @cecilyanash
Photos by Hanne Nygaard
“Simonsen and Straume are queens of the ridiculous ”
— ★★★★ The Wee Review
“monstrous fun.”
— ★★★★ The Guardian
“Tightly directed by Cecily Nash, Straume and Simonsen’s gentle mode of self-mockery quickly makes you fond ”
—★★★★ The Guardian
“A unique and thoroughly amusing escape from seriousness, Troll is a warming and wacky thing to be a part of.”
— ★★★★ The Wee Review
Production shots by Peter Williams at Brighton Spiegeltent during Brighton Fringe 2023