Christian Lollike examines and expands some of the questions raised by Lars von Trier’s film DOGVILLE – issues that confront one of the fundamental values in our society: Forgiveness. This is no attempt to milk the success of the film. Instead, Lollike has created a kind of surreal court room drama where the gangster daughter Grace who is now much more active, is in a kind of lab, attempting to understand the consistence and unconditional forgiveness which devastated an entire society. How do we feel about forgiveness in a society constantly discussing harder punishments? By putting anonymous labels (A, B and C) on the characters, they appear to represent various values, rather than actual persons. The dialogue therefore appears as a kind of montage in which the various viewpoints and attitudes come into dialogue. Premiered at the Mammutteatret in Copenhagen, may 2007.
