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“I am an artist. I’ve heard you need one.”

"Fucking Genius" is a black comedy portraying the clash between an artist's identity and an immigrant's reality. Uriela, a newcomer in Iceland, aspires to audition at the National Circus. Instead of finding her place within the cultural elite, she falls into a circle of tricky application and authentication processes, evaluated by the self-checkout robotic system of Kronan.

The play is a multilingual fusion of textual, physical, visual, and musical arts, inspired by Dante's "Inferno" and "Babette's Feast" by Karen Blixen.

Reykjavík Ensemble International Theatre Company creates new original productions that promote multinational and multilingual theatre artists. Fucking Genius is their fourth theatre production, created with professional theatre talents who bring first-hand experience of moving to Iceland and navigating migration as artists.

Playwrights: Ewa Marcinek and Pálína Jónsdóttir; Actors: Jördis Richter, Heidi Bowes, Jordic Mist, Paul Gibson, Snorri Engilbertsson; Director: Pálína Jónsdóttir; Production and Costume Maker: Klaudia Kaczmarek; Production and Costume Assistant: Wiola Ujazdowska; Lights: Ólafur Ágúst Stefánsson; Sound and music: Íris Thorarins; Stage Manager: Nanna Gunnars; Set Builder: Dawid Reiss; Seamstress: Bozenna Kubs; Production & Promotion: Ewa Marcinek, Nanna Gunnars, Pálína Jónsdóttir; Promotion and Production Assistant: Kaamos Metsikkö; Graphic design: Snæfríð Þorsteins, Klaudia Kaczmarek; Photography: Klaudia Kaczmarek; Theatre Technician: Áslákur Ingvarsson;

Producer: Heimsleikhúsið in collaboration with Tjarnarbíó.

Supported by Reykjavíkurborg, Performing Arts Fund, Nordic Culture Point, and Nordic Culture Fund.

Special thanks: angela rawlings, Auður Snorradóttir, Gudrita Lape, Jason Mechmel, Melinda Wunderbar, Nadia Zadorozna, Icelandic Red Cross, Robert Zadorozny, National Theatre of Iceland