Allir deyja (Everybody Dies)
Four part radio series about death and mortality.
Aired 2021 on RÚV, Iceland's public broadcaster.
Host and author.
Funeral directors die. Sweet tooths die. A priest dies. Video game enthusiasts die. In this series we discuss death with people of all ages – what is our relationship with death? How does it change with age? Do we tend to avoid death? What comes next?
The interviews for this series began as a research project for the Reykjavik City Theatre, where the host is resident playwright. Music curation: Friðrik Margrétar- Guðmundsson. Editing: Þorgerður E. Sigurðardóttir. Host and author: Matthías Tryggvi Haraldsson.
Mean boys
Theatre adaptation based on the screenplay for Mean Girls (2004) by Tina Fey.
Shown 2018 in Seltjarnarnes, Iceland.
Director and co-author.
Frúardagur, a student theatre company at Reykjavik Junior College, collaborated on this Icelandic adaptation of what came to be mutually understood within the group as the best film ever made. The piece told a similar story as the film portrayed in an Icelandic setting with reversed gender roles. The process largely revolved around curating and facilitating ideas from participants in the group, who were all between ages fifteen and twenty. All of the performers, as well as other volunteer students on the creative team, were co-creators of the show, as well as the directors Alma Mjöll Ólafsdóttir and Matthías Tryggvi Haraldsson.
Sýning um glímu og Slazenger (A show about wrestling and Slazenger)
Devised performance with Á&K theatre group.
Shown 2017 in Kópavogur, Iceland.
Performer and co-creator.
Ást og karókí (Love and Karaoke) theatre group continue their mission to explore notions of masculinity using a devised theatre process. They find themselves dressed in Slazenger jumpsuits and traditional Icelandic trouser grip wrestling belts, confessing their repressed emotions to the audience in the middle of a strenuous work-out. Members are Adolf Smári Unnarsson, Friðrik Margrétar- Guðmundsson, Matthías Tryggvi Haraldsson, Birnir Jón Sigurðsson, and Stefán Ingvar Vigfússon.
Þvottur (Washing)
By Matthías Tryggvi Haralsson
Shown 2016 in Tjarnarbíó theatre.
Author and director.
A short play about eternal washing of a glass window. A man stands on stage washing the glass. Another sees to it that the glass is washed. A third owns the glass.
Author and director: Matthías Tryggvi Haraldsson
Assistant director and visual design: Alma Mjöll Ólafsdóttir
Production and lightss: Stefán Ingvar Vigfússon
Music: Friðrik Guðmundsson
Set: Klemens Hannigan
Cast:
Aron Már Ólafsson
Árni Beinteinn
Hákon Jóhannesson
Photos: María Guðjohnsen
Poster: Helga Dögg Ólafsdóttir
Sími látins manns (Dead Man's Cell Phone)
By Sarah Ruhl
Shown at Reykjavik Arts Festival 2016 in Tjarnarbíó theatre.
Translator.
When Nína decides to answer a man's cell phone at a café, which has rung relentlessly, she steps into a chain of events with unforeseen consequences. The production was the first ever staging of a Sarah Ruhl play in Iceland.
Director: Charlotte Bøving
Cast: María Dalberg, Kolbeinn Arnbjörnsson, Elva Ósk Ólafsdóttir & Halldóra Rut Baldursdóttir
Translation: Ingólfur Eiríksson og Matthías Tryggvi Haraldsson
Music: Ragnhildur Gísladóttir
Set and costumes: Fanney Sizemore
Lights: Arnar Ingvarsson
Make-up: Steinunn Þórðardóttir
Tech: Kristinn Ágústsson