Victor and Edith have been together for too long. Playing games is the only way they know how to relate to each other. It is their excitement, their trick. But actually it becomes their trap. The day they try to be serious with each other they find out that they lack the words to express what is on their mind. It is too late, and the storm that starts to blow wipes out all the delicately constructed rules of the game.
Victor never came to understand skin. The elastic sensitivity and sensuality of skin. He could read a book but he never really managed to read a body. Edith, who always loved to be touched and lived by her skin, became untouchable.
Time does change and even stainless steel will start to erode. Some people will say that it is a matter of maintenance. That you have to keep your relationship clean and tidy, just as your household, just like your stainless pans and pots. Or did they use too much polisher to make their relation look bright and shiny. Anyway, they used it on the wrong side of the pot. While the outside looked brand new, the inside was already red-rusty and dangerously eroded. No pot to cook a decent meal in.
Victor and Edith came alive for the first time in the Blackbox-theatre in Oslo in 1991. Benno and Bibbi danced a short, partly improvised duet in which Benno read a page out of The Bleeding Heart of Marilyn French. This is where the names Victor and Edith have their origin. After this small performance Benno and Bibbi started to write each other letters as the characters of Victor and Edith, to create a personal history for and an insight in who Victor and Edith could be. In April 1994 Benno and Bibbi were invited to perform an improvised version of the piece Victor and Edith in a dancefestival in Göteborg. This performance gave them the skeleton for the piece they later made in Oslo.