PROTECTED (TEMPORARILY)
Documentary staged reading
Protected (temporarily) is a documentary theatre project exploring the lived experiences of displaced Ukrainians living in Norway. Through stories of waiting, bureaucracy, separation, language barriers, work, motherhood, isolation and the loss of professional identity, it examines how a life defined as “temporary” gradually becomes a long-term reality shaped by ongoing uncertainty about the future.
Based on recorded interviews, the performance transforms documentary testimony into a polyphonic work of theatre, where individual stories intersect and overlap. The staged reading explores the complexity of living between places, languages and different states of belonging — and what happens to our sense of home, identity and self when temporariness becomes life itself.
Performed by: Nina Ellen Ødegård, Malene Wadel and Roar Kjølv Jenssen
Written and directed by: Olga Androsiuk Lyubarova
Collage and poster design by: Porodko Art Atelier
Produced in collaboration with Stage Door, with support from Stavanger kommune and TOU Scene, and Ukrainsk Forening i Norge as an information partner.
The reading will be performed in English.
