Theatre text context
Teatertekstkontekst* (Theatre text context) is a BIT Teatergarasjen platform for new Norwegian drama.
In 1996 the project had the subtitle Norsk Dramatikk: 14° (og vindstille)* (Norwegian Drama: 14 degrees Celsius, no wind).
*Not yet translated into English. The title within parentheses is the Norwegian title's literal meaning.
Information
(Objekt ID 24786)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | September 20, 1996 |
| Produced by | BIT Teatergarasjen |
| Audience | Adults |
| Keywords | Seminar, Theatre, Reading |
| Running period | September 20, 1996 — September 22, 1996 |
Requirements to venue
| Blackout | No |
Through Teatertekstkontekst* (Theatre text context) 1996 BIT Teatergarasjen posed the following questions:
"How should Norwegian drama be diagnosed? Why do Norwegian playwrights insist that drama is professional theatre if they still forget, or never have learned, how to write? What use is there for drama that is neither inviting performing nor reading?"
Norsk Dramatikk: 14° (og vindstille)* (Norwegian Drama: 14 degrees Celsius, no wind) was arranged in Bergen from September 20 to 22 1996.
Among the events was a three-part seminar.
Part 1 was by Knut Ove Arntzen, Lisbeth J. Bodd and Cecilie Løveid. Arntzen talked about Fra kabaretdramaturgi til dramatikeren som teaterarbeider (literally: From cabaret dramaturgy to the playwright as a theatre worker), Løveid talked about: Dramatikk: Arkitektur og objekt (literally: Drama: Architecture and object) and Bodd told about: Verdensteateret's text work.
Part 2 of the seminar discussed Theatre text context - fiction & reality by Tom Jansen and Marianne Van Kerkhoven held her opening statement on 80's: Writing integrated in theatrical process. What will come next?.
Part 3 of the seminar included an opening statement from Georg Johannessen: Teater: fornuft - Underholdning? (literally: Theatre: Sense – Entertainment?) All the other panel members participated.
Siren Leirvåg moderated all the seminars.
Norsk Dramatikk: 14° (og vindstille)* (Norwegian Drama: 14 degrees Celsius, no wind) also showed three productions. These were: Se Luftskeppen* (See the Airship), Fantomet & Guran spiller klassikere* (The Phantom & Guran perform the classics) and Felix' kommende karriere* (Felix' future career).
In addition the writers/playwrights Øyvind Berg, Cecilie Løveid, Finn Iunker and Tom Jansen read texts of their own.
Source:
Program Norsk Dramatikk: 14° (og vindstille)* (Norwegian Drama: 14 degrees Celsius, no wind). Teatertekstkontekst* (Theatre text context), 1996, BIT Teatergarasjen
*Not yet translated into English. The title within parentheses is the Norwegian title's literal meaning.
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Knut Ove Arntzen | – Other |
| Øyvind Berg | – Other |
| Lisbeth Bodd | – Other |
| Finn Iunker | – Other |
| Tom Jansen | – Other |
| Georg Johannesen | – Other |
| Siren Leirvåg | – Other |
| Cecilie Løveid | – Other |
| Marianne Van Kerkhoven | – Other |
| September 22, 1996 – BIT Teatergarasjen, Norsk Dramatikk | Other |
| September 21, 1996 – BIT Teatergarasjen, Norsk Dramatikk | Other |
| September 20, 1996 – BIT Teatergarasjen, Norsk Dramatikk | Opening night |