The Norwegian Ibsen Award AKA The Ibsen Prize
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(1)The Norwegian Ibsen Award AKA The Ibsen Prize 2013
The Ibsen Prize (sometimes called The Norwegian or The National Ibsen Award) is an award given out by the municipality of Skien, for long the only playwright award in the country. It was awarded for the first time in 1986, and consists of 150 000 Norwegian kroner and a statuette by Nina Sundbye.
The Ibsen Prize is awarded a Norwegian playwright who has had a new work for children or adults produced by a professional theatre the past year, or for the playwright's collected writing. A special jury selects the winner.
In 2011 the jury considered 49 scripts, all of which had had world wide premieres at Norwegian venues or in Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation's radio drama department in 2010.
Source:
Scenekunst, scenekunst.no, 20.09.2011, http://www2.scenekunst.no/artikkel_8455.nml
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Arne Lygre
"I disappear by Arne Lygre moves through a dark landscape with a female I, her girlfriend, daughter and husband. The world described is uncertain bordering the threatening. The woman is caught in a life situation, an existential crisis, she is reflecting upon. Arne Lygre uses different narrative perspectives in his examination of our time's constant staging of one's own identity. The form mirrors the content in an elegant, suggestive and intellectual way. The text is open as well as mysterious with many changing landscapes. With I disappear Arne Lygre ensures his position as one of our most interesting playwrights."
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Arne Lygre
Arne Lygre is nominated for the play I disappear, with its Norwegian premiere August 24. 2012 at The National Theatre. Lygre hails from Bergen and lives in Oslo.
The jury says:
"I disappear by Arne Lygre moves through a dark landscape with a female I, her girlfriend, daughter and husband. The world described is uncertain bordering the threatening. The woman is caught in a life situation, an existential crisis, she is reflecting upon. Arne Lygre uses different narrative perspectives in his examination of our time's constant staging of one's own identity. The form mirrors the content in an elegant, suggestive and intellectual way. The text is open as well as mysterious with many changing landscapes. With I disappear Arne Lygre ensures his position as one of our most interesting playwrights."
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Geir Gulliksen
Geir Gulliksen is nominated for the play A body with its world premiere at Dramatikkens Hus October 11 2012. Gulliksen hails from Kongsberg and lives in Oslo.
The jury says:
"The writer Geir Gulliksen makes his debut as a playwright with A Body with three voices, a woman and two men who all try to be bodies for each other without fully realising what it implies. The text is about love, longing, and it questions what is attractive in another human being. Through the characters the language also becomes a "body", an appearance to master. Language, love and sexuality are all subject to the use of power. In an involving physical language strikingly visual images of human vulnerability are drawn. Through an original perspective a literary project is elevated to performing arts."
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Christopher Nielsen
Christopher Nielsen from Oslo is nominated for the play Entropy with its world premiere January 21 2012 at The National Theatre. Entropy is the second play in the Staphylococcustrilogy.
The jury says:
"In Christopher Nielsen's Entropy we meet three drug addicts and one therapist in a treatment room. The process the four plan to go through cracks when a fourth drug addict is included in the group. In a luscious, surplus-filled and energetic language the playwright pokes fun with the well-meaning therapist society, and creates a number of absurd situations illuminating the chaos/entropy of human life. Nielsen aims to treat large themes in an unpretentious manner, without removing the danger. This way his dramas make their mark as a contribution to public debate and thus they also represent a suggestion for contemporary political theatre anno 2012. That is a rare thing."