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After the Show Ends, I’m Still Wondering What I’ve Seen

From Aftenposten · () Norwegian

Translated from Norwegian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Comedian Galvan Mehidi’s new show, “If God Wills,” opens with Jånni Kristiansen reading from Ecclesiastes in a black suit and white scarf.
  • The performance then shifts to a projected sky over a white curtain at Oslo’s Samfunnssalen, as Mehidi enters from the audience.
  • The review praises the show’s personality, humor and meaning while questioning the experience it creates for spectators.

“If God Wills” begins with a reminder that nothing is new under the sun. Comedian Jånni Kristiansen appears in a black suit and white scarf, reading from Ecclesiastes: “What has happened will happen again, and what has been done will be done again. There is nothing new under the sun.”

The passage comes from the Old Testament and concerns the idea that nothing is new to God. Then a white curtain falls over Oslo’s Samfunnssalen. A sky is projected onto it, and Galvan Mehidi enters from the auditorium. The show can begin.

The performance is described as full of personality, humor and meaning. Yet the review argues that Mehidi makes it difficult to be an audience member, leaving the critic still wondering what exactly he has seen after the show ends.

What has happened will happen again, and what has been done will be done again. There is nothing new under the sun.

· Jånni Kristiansen, reading EcclesiastesThe biblical passage opens Galvan Mehidi’s show.
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Originally published by Aftenposten in Norwegian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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