![]() ![]() ![]() What I wanted to do when Hans Blær came into being – three years ago – was, among other things, to create an individual that was like the complete contradiction, in a mad conflict with themselves and society. Ideas like this one come from numerous directions – I’ve admired trans people for their courage for a long time and they have held a place in my mind. “I don’t want to deny any responsibility for this creation – obviously I decided not to throw the piece into the trash but follow it up, pick up the threads that I saw in it. “To begin with it’s hard to say that things are strictly decided in a creation that you work on instinctively,” says Eiríkur. GayIceland contacted the author of Hans Blær, Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl to get his response to Ugla’s point of view and started by asking Eiríkur why he had decided to make the protagonist a non binary person. ![]() Screenshot of a poster promoting the play “Hans Blær”. Playwright of “controversial” play responds to criticism. ![]()
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