The monologue performance adapted from the manifesto produced by Anders Behring Breivik will have its first performance in Denmark, but will premiere in Oslo the day after.

The Danish director Christian Lollike harvested widespread criticism both at home and in Norway when he announced in January he planned to mount a performance centred around a manifesto produced by Breivik prior to his Norwegian bomb and shooting spree in which 77 people were killed.

Dramatikkens Hus in Oslo, however, has decided to premiere the production the day after its first performance in Copenhagen, according to the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK’s website.

“It seems the first performance will be in Copenhagen mid-October. Then the idea is that they get on a plane to Oslo the next morning so that the Oslo premiere will be the day after,” Dramatikkens Hus Artistic Manager Kai Johnsen is quoted as saying by NRK.

Johnsen says Dramatikkens Hus is involved in developing the production.

“I got an e-mail from him (Ed: Lollike) on Sunday evening in which he said he had started and that it was both terribly interesting and terribly difficult,” Johnsen says.

Denmark is apparently not the only country to be preparing a production about Breivik. According to NRK preparations are being made for two productions in Sweden, one in Britain and one in the Netherlands where the renowned Amsterdam theatre DeBalie envisages a play in which Breivik meets the right wing Dutch politician Gert Wilders.

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