Mythos Ragnarök is a truly unique show at the Edinburgh Fringe. WWE-style wrestling meets Norse mythology in an hour of tackles, stories and clotheslines.
The performance opens with Loki, (Eddie Gamester) walking onto the stage through a cloud of smoke. He retells the myth of Ymir’s death and how he created the elves, dwarves and giants with his breath, sweat and hair.
Then came the fighting. Norse mythology is full of epic battles between gods and monsters, kin or otherwise. The actors clashed and grappled with an aggressive finesse that would have taken years to master.
The action put you on the edge of your seat. The metal stage would clang and dip so much it sometimes looked like it would break. Each move made the crowd cheer louder and louder.
Now Norse mythology is complicated and would require a blockbuster budget to fully depict. So, the show succinctly showed stories from Odin and Loki meeting, to Baldur eating the apples of Idun. For example, Loki calls his daughter Hela his sprig of mistletoe, this is a reference to how Baldur was defeated in the myth; an arrow with a sprig of mistletoe tied to it. In the show Hela beats Baldur after coming back from the dead.
In one scene, Hela dies in battle, and the stage becomes silent. Loki falls to his knees as he cradles his daughter, before death takes her away to the Norse underworld Hel. It is a moving scene that is as silent as it is forlorn
The performance ended with an emotional speech from Gamester about his four-year passion project. As a wrestler, the athletic and acting communities do not always recognise the skill and spectacle that goes into wrestling shows.
Mythos Ragnarök is an original, unique and exciting show which perfectly fits action with storytelling.
Featured image credit: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Website
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