Statsteatret

At the webpage of Statsteatret the following, among other things, is written about the idea behind the company, in a text written by Yngve Sundvor:

"Statsteatret wants with its project Norway 1066-2066 to 'rewrite' the story of Norway, and to bring it out to towns and villages for a large audience. Our first production was 1066 - The Battle of Stamford Bridge, and our last will be a future fable of Norway anno 2066. The plan is to create ten productions in ten years. We want to look for and compare past and present. What goes in a loop? Which are the past events, conflicts and person to have given our societal development direction? What has the official Norway, consciously or unconsciously, left out?

In any age the human will perceive his or her own generation as the modern and illuminated. Every generation probably considers itself the one to invent the gunpowder. Because we perceive ourselves as so very modern, and to strengthen our egos connected to 'the modern', it is fun to imagine our ancestors as humourless physical workers without thought for anything but rocks, earth, rocks, earth. This is an efficient way to keep history out of our lives. It is not interesting. The humans were not interesting. Science, illumination, internet, everything is for the better today. We have nothing to learn from the past. But just this eternal river, the history, that everybody is part of, can tell u show late human development moves on an internal level. And what goes in a loop.

We will get to important intersections of our history, illuminate them again in an unexpected, passionate manner, mix fact and fiction to, hopefully, find the answers to who we are and why we became like that. And not least; where will it lead us?"

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Statsteatret won the Hedda Award 2021/2022 for special artistic achievement for the project "Norway 1066-2066".

In its statement, the jury noted that the project is "an idea and an achievement that is so dizzyingly ambitious that it appears, on paper, to be a theatrical impossibility. But the challenge of the impossible, in combination with an amazing “can-do” attitude, have given us magical experiences and quantum leaps of thought. The result is theatrical history."

SOURCES:

Statsteatret, www.statsteatret.no, http://statsteatret.no/om-oss/

The Hedda Award, heddaprisen.no, 28.06.2022, https://www.heddaprisen.no/vinnere/2022

• The Hedda Award 2021/2022 - Special artistic achievement

• The Hedda Award 2021/2022 - Special artistic achievement