Teatermaskinen (The Theatre Machine)
Teatermaskinen (The Theatre Machine) is a Swedish theatre company, established in 1997. The company has its base in a little community in the district of Bergslagen, where mining is a major industry.
Teatermaskinen (The Theatre Machine) works with issues such as: What is nature? What is the human relationship to nature? Which options lie within the actor? Which ideas influence our way of living? Which subjects can get a new, true and revolutionary art expression to grow? Teatermaskinen (The Theatre Machine) is inspired by Heiner Müller, Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Bercht and Tatsumi Hijikafa.
Information
(Objekt ID 9811)| Object type | Organization |
| Organization type | Theatre company |
| Main focus | Theatre |
| Established | January 1, 1997 |
| teatermaskinen@teatermaskinen.com | |
| Website | Teatermaskinen |
Contact information
| Address | Skräppbo Skola, S-730 91 Riddarhyttan, Sweden |
| teatermaskinen@teatermaskinen.com | |
| Telefon |
0222 - 13161 070 - 6811481 |
Other information
| Legal entity | Other |
Teatermaskinen (The Theatre Machine) regards performing arts and culture as possibilities to create change and democracy. The company wishes to make performing arts a place to discuss issues. The foundation is an idea that culture must be related to its contemporary time and that performing arts is important in examining human conditions.
Teatermaskinen (The Theatre Machine) also is responsible for a publishing house named Maskinen Förlag. Since 2000 Teatermaskinen (The Theatre Machine) has worked for a meeting point for international performing arts and research in Bergslagen. The house is called Quatrohelixmaskinen, and in it a research laboratory for performing arts in meeting with other artistic expressions is planned located.
Sources: Stamsund International Theatre Festival, http://www.stamsund-internasjonale.no/, 03.12.2010, http://www.stamsund-internasjonale.no/Old/2005/
Teatermaskinen (The Theatre Machine), http://www.teatermaskinen.com/sv/, 03.12.2010, http://www.teatermaskinen.com/sv/?page_id=10
| Title | Premiere |
|---|---|
| Logosfält | – June 3, 2005 |
| A Dumb Blonde | – June 1, 2005 |
| Logosfält | – March 23, 2005 |
| Title | Premiere |
|---|---|
| Logosfält | – June 3, 2005 – Teatermaskinen (The Theatre Machine) |
| A Dumb Blonde | – June 1, 2005 – Teatermaskinen (The Theatre Machine) |
| A Dumb Blonde | – June 1, 2005 – Teatermaskinen (The Theatre Machine) |
| Logosfält | – March 23, 2005 – Teatermaskinen (The Theatre Machine) |
| Johan Jönson | – Other |
| Jonas Engman | – Other |
| Hannes Olsson | – Other |