Niels Christian Geelmuyden
Naturally, turning 50 comes with certain disadvantages. The trouble is that these issues tend to be only too familiar. It is rare for the focus to be on all that improves with increasing age. What if growing older is much nicer than people believe? If entering the 50s is much better than being young? What if the best period in your life is waiting for you? If so, it counts as an exceptionally well kept secret. Until now, that is. Niels Chr. Geelmuyden, himself in his 50s, writes with humour and warmth, based on research and his own and others' experiences, about what we can look forward to once we have made it past 50.

Else Kåss Furuseth
One day, Else Kåss Furuseth receives a phone call from her grandmother. Else's brother Lars Kristian hasn't come for supper. As he always does. At the door to his flat, Else finds a pile of newspapers. No response from inside. She calls the police and tells them that her brother is dead. Her Condolances is based on Else Kåss Furuseth's take on one of the great taboos of our time: suicide. Against the odds, her approach made the performance an amusing and touching experience, a tale of a moving, timeless act and a blackly humorous exploration of our relationship to death. In It is the smart ones who die, Kåss Furuseth investigates more deeply the mystery surrounding her brother Lars Kristian. Why did he make these decisions? A diary note for the day after his self-inflicted death shows that he had planned to spend seven hours watching a film about the extermination of the Jews. A few days after Lars Kristian's death, Else said to her father: “If I knew I had to watch that documentary, I‘d have killed myself, too.” Smiling, her father replied: “Me too. But you mustn't say this to anyone else. It's the kind of joke no one gets, except the two of us.”