Oslo International Theatre
Oslo International Theatre (OIT) is a theatre project which is managed by the theatre company Imploding Fictions.
Oslo International Theatre translates international contemporary drama, formerly not performed in Norway, into Norwegian, and regularly performs these plays as staged readings.
Information
(Objekt ID 11162)| Object type | Organization |
| Organization type | Theatre company |
| Main focus | Theatre |
| Established | Navember 12, 2009 |
| oslointernasjonaleteater@gmail.com | |
| Website | Oslo Internasjonale Teater, Imploding Fictions Blog, Imploding Fictions |
Contact information
| Address | Trondheimsveien 197A, 0570 Oslo, Norway |
| oslointernasjonaleteater@gmail.com | |
| Telefon | + 47 986 37 123 / + 44 791 047 9696 |
Other information
| Legal entity | Non-profit organisation |
| Org nr. | 985 466 912 |
On the webpage of Oslo International Theatre the following, among other things, is written:
"OIT is an offer for those interested in contemporary drama, wishing to discover new playwrights and plays, no matter if these are theatres, independent companies or theatre makers looking for plays to stage, playwrights seeking inspiration for their own work or ordinary theatre spectators wishing to see works formerly not performed in Norway. We have a wide international network that we use in the work of discovering dramatic works.
Oslo International Theatre (OIT) was started as a project in which Imploding Fictions (www.implodingfictions.com) and Michael H. Sciarrone/Teatersirkus (www.teatersirkus.no) collaborated. Today Imploding Fictions manages OIT.
Oslo International Theatre is supported by Arts Council Norway, the municipality of Oslo, Dramatikkens hus, the freedom of expression foundation Fritt Ord, Goethe-Institut and The Fund for Performing Artists."
Oslo International Theatre won The Hedda Award in the category of special artistic achievement in 2011.
The Hedda jury gave the following reason:
"The selection of Norwegian performing arts has never been as rich and diverse as it is today. But a newcomer in the arena has, until now, gotten little attention. Totally undeserved, as the project not only has fine artistic qualities, it is also original and different. Purposefully and selectively the emphasis is on an area sometimes neglected on the Norwegian stage: Foreign contemporary drama. The project has presented a total of 12 texts by international playwrights. Not performances in the usual term of the word, but staged readings in which the director and the actors with simple measures have created performances worth seeing, while proving that text is still, today, an important condition for good theatre.
The award for Special Artistic Achievement goes to Oslo International Theatre, represented by Øystein Ulsberg Brager."
Source:
Oslo International Theatre, oslosinternasjonaleteater.com, 28.02.2011, http://oslointernasjonaleteater.com/about/
| Title | Premiere |
|---|---|
| Five Days in March | – June 14, 2012 |
| hamlet is dead. no gravity | – June 6, 2012 |
| Clybourne Park | – May 31, 2012 |
| Fixer | – May 23, 2012 |
| The Diamond Stars | – May 15, 2012 |
| White Rabbit, Red Rabbit | – March 2, 2012 |
| Motortown | – Navember 24, 2011 |
| The Truth Will Out | – October 13, 2011 |
| The Mercy Seat | – September 11, 2011 |
| Headcase | – June 14, 2011 |
| Medealand | – May 3, 2011 |
| Nightblind | – March 15, 2011 |
| Porcelain | – February 22, 2011 |
| Monsters | – Navember 25, 2010 |
| The title of the drama about Ante is written here | – September 23, 2010 |
| Black Beast | – August 26, 2010 |
| The Fever | – April 22, 2010 |
| Forsøk på Livet | – March 11, 2010 |
| Title | Premiere |
|---|---|
| Worktable | – March 8, 2017 – Spin |
| The returning | – April 26, 2014 – Compagnie Divine Comédie |
| Espen Hjort | – Director’s assistant (fra October 21, 2010) |
| Øystein Ulsberg Brager | – Administrative head (fra Navember 12, 2009) |
| Michael Hallbäck Sciarrone | – Stage manager (fra Navember 12, 2009 til 2011) |
| Philip Thorne | – Dramaturge (fra Navember 12, 2009) |
| Øystein Ulsberg Brager | – Artistic director (fra Navember 12, 2009) |
| Philip Thorne | – Artistic director (fra Navember 12, 2009) |
| Øystein Ulsberg Brager | – Director (fra Navember 12, 2009) |
| Philip Thorne | – Director (fra Navember 12, 2009) |