Burnt Toast

In Burnt Toast, experimental Norwegian theatre collective Susie Wang blends reality and surreal horror.

Blending in-your-face body horror with an unsettling manipulation of the mundane, in Burnt Toast, Susie Wang creates an “uncanny gap between the real and the unreal, the original and the fake.”

Set designer Bo Krister Wallström’s garish and intricate staging transports audiences to somewhere in the Deep South in an all-red hotel lobby with a front desk and two elevators—one going up and one going down.

Betty, the receptionist, dutifully minds her desk as Danny arrives, chained to a mysterious silver briefcase.

His attention soon turns to Violet—a woman sipping an eggnog cocktail while cradling her daughter. Could her child be his?

As their conversation deepens, questions spiral and danger unfolds, blending love and horror in a bloody descent into the unknown.