Max, Mischa and the Tet Offensive is a performance about growing up, family, migration, movement—and above all, time. On the one hand, time does what it does best: it moves relentlessly forward. On the other, it occasionally gathers into a storm. At times, that storm reaches apocalyptic proportions—meteorological, but also intimate and political.

Migrations, wars, the discovery of oil platforms, the collapse of friendships, economic crises, and romantic shipwrecks intertwine within the vortex of Max’s memories, forming a story about the constant human need to adapt and keep moving forward.

Based on the novel by Johan Harstad, the performance centers on theatre director Max Hansen—once Norwegian, now homeless, suspended between American highways, theatre tours, his own memories, and an uncertain future. From this in-between space, Max unfolds his life before us in a nearly Proustian manner, in all directions, in the hope that one day he might arrive at a place he can call home—wherever and whenever that may be.