We use those words to mean that one is lazy, or is lazy today. It’s just cute, and the wording also indicates that it is a temporary state and implies that the person saying this has not gotten around to any specific task that day and is allowing themselves to be lazy about it.
The play Æventýri í Latabæ is about much more than just some smut and candy-eating. I found that out at the premiere last Sunday, 14 September 2014. Not that I haven’t looked into the concept and content of the stories about LazyTown, although it has been a rather superficial look.
Of course I didn’t go to this show alone, I am so lucky to have this young four-year-old relative, who is a good friend of mine, a great theater fan and in excellent touch with his taste. With him I can have fun anywhere so I was not scared anywhere.
The show started and what fun, explosions of color, and excitement it was.
I glanced at my young companion from time to time and was filled with inner joy at the way he fidgeted in his seat and gaped at the stage in between. It is literally wonderful to see children in a theater participate in a play by standing up, jumping and dancing and clapping and shouting. My little man is very shy, but there he was in his element and let everything float as appropriate and in between he danced sitting down.
A fun political show. Huh?
The inner story of The Adventures of LazyTown, as I said before, is not about being lazy one day or another. The story is about a society that breaks free from uniformity and laziness and celebrates diversity and activity, joy of life and kindness, understanding and patience. There, the traditional concepts of good and evil are presented in the form of democracy versus fascism. The greed that wants to put a price on everything and the dust that is thrown in our eyes that human resources are less valuable than hard banknotes.
The happiness and well-being of individuals is neither calculated in gross production nor in the strength of society. Happiness and well-being economics have been left out and do not fit into the statistics of those who are always calculating everything out and into the state coffers.
The story even touches on how sugar and poor food are directly used to discourage citizens and keep them uneducated and half-dull. The connection with nature and inner existence is broken and then we start talking about real laziness. Laziness of the mind, laziness to act and helplessness against circumstances and apathy and lack of energy, because we are on such a poor diet from a young age.
It is perhaps only now that some connection is being made with this kind of society here in Iceland. A society that Robbie Rotten is so fond of.
I know I am philosophizing about LazyTown, but I mean every single word.
I also know that the core of the idea is to get children to exercise and eat healthy food, nevertheless this is the core of the story in “Adventures in LazyTown” which is currently being shown at the National Theatre.
For now, apart from the fact that I laughed my ass off at times, because there are many incredibly funny things. It is hard not to laugh every single time Robbie Rotten appears on stage. The actor Stefán Karl, who has hosted Robbie for a long time, is so hilarious in this role that half would be enough, it is enough that he appears.
The youngest actor in the show literally shines, or the young boy who plays Ziggy, the cute one. He is great to say the least and it is amazing that such a young person has such control over his role.
Finally, it is no less a very enjoyable experience for adults to see all the fun special effects, which are quite a few and most if not all of which are almost like miracles. It must have been a lot of work to put it all together, but it is even more wonderful that it turned out so well.
Everyone can be very happy with this show. Of course, if the children have fun, the adults will usually have fun, and this show is almost guaranteed to have fun. There is enough for everyone.
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