The Ibsen Prize AKA The Norwegian Ibsen Award 2016

Mette Edvardsen received the award for her text to We to be. The jury gave the following reason:

"Mette Edvardsen's We to be is a meta text that takes advantage of the theatrical situation as its basis for drama. Edvardsen intertwine fiction and reality in a complex and precise dialogue about and with the performance venue, its audience and the theatre as situation. The text can be regarded as an art project examining time and space, more specifically, the theatre of the black box. We to be is local through being anchored in the here and now, but also connects with a global room and an international performing arts contexts in being written in English. The language's very musicality is striking and its choices of words precise. We to be spring out from Edvardsen as an active choreographer and dancer, but the jury finds that the text also contains a large potential for interpretation and realisation beyond her as a performing artist."

We to be had its world premiere during Oslo International Theatre Festival at Black Box Teater in Oslo March 24 2015. You may read more about the world premiere here.