The Pretenders

The Pretenders was a theatre production produced by The National Theatre of Norway, The Royal Danish Theatre and The Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden, the latter most known as Dramaten, in 2005.

Actors from all three theatres took part in the production.

Norwegian Alexander Mørk-Eidem directed it.

Information

(Objekt ID 31966)
Object type Production
Premiere January 5, 2005
Produced by The National Theatre, The Royal Danish Theatre, The Royal Dramatic Theatre
Based on The Pretenders by Henrik Ibsen
Audience Adults
Language Norwegian, Danish and Swedish
Keywords Drama, Theatre
Running period January 5, 2005  
Website Nationaltheatret
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The Pretenders by The National Theatre of Norway, The Royal Danish Theatre and The Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden, the latter most known as Dramaten, won one Hedda Award.

The Hedda Award 2005 in the best visual design category went to Christian Friedländer.

The Hedda Jury gave the following reason:

"This year's Hedda award goes to an artist who shows how stage design can not only support, clarify and express a director's intentions, but also add new and distinct dramatic life to it. In this production the winner of the year has strictly just used one great element.But as the action develops, this element is gradually transformed, in supreme symbiosis with the text's dramatic content until it in the final image is expanded into the very symbol for the whole drama's message. This is an amazing, stunning stage design, communicating with the spectator through simple, but utterly efficient effects.

The winner of this year's best stage design Hedda is Danish Christian Friedländer for his stage design for The Pretenders by Henrik Ibsen, a coproduction in collaboration between the national theatres of Denmark, Sweden and Norway: The Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen, The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and The National Theatre of our own."

Sources:

The National Theatre, The Pretenders, www.nationaltheatret.no, 17.10.2012, http://fdb.nationaltheatret.no/S%C3%B8k/tabid/57/ctl/PlayView/mid/374/oppsetningId/866a4918-c20f-4581-9b0b-e20040d8ad84/Default.aspx

Sceneweb on The Hedda Award 2005, www.sceneweb.no, 17.10.2012, http://www.sceneweb.no/en/awarding/23849/The_Hedda_Award_2005-2005


Performance dates
January 5, 2005Hovedscenen, Nationaltheatret, The National Theatre New opening