Snakk med framtida: Festival* (Talk to the future: Festival)

Fra barns tekster til profesjonelt teater* (From children’s texts to professional theatre)

Snakk med framtida: Festival - Fra barns tekster til profesjonelt teater* (Talk to the future: Festival – From children’s texts to professional theatre) was arranged by The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater) June 14-16 2001,

The festival consisted of a performance, exhibition, video and workshop presentation based on short texts by 8 to 12 year old playwrights from the borough of Gamle Oslo, about their daily lives and how they regard their own future. The project Snakk med framtida had the aim of using theatre as a method to strengthen and develop the language of school pupils.

*Not yet translated into English. The title within parentheses is the Norwegian title's literal meaning.

Information

(Objekt ID 8281)
Object type Production
Premiere June 14, 2001
Produced by The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater)
Audience Children, Adults
Number of events 3
Language Norwegian
Keywords Theatre, Exhibition, Video, Work-in-progress
Running period June 14, 2001  —  June 16, 2001
Website Det Åpne Teater

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In February and March 2001 a total of 70 children from three school classes from the schools Vahl skole and Gamlebyen skole in a text development workshop in The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater). The trial project was ended with a festival called Snakk med framtida* (Talk to the Future) in The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater).

School pupils wrote texts actors and instructors read. Next they met in the theatre where the actors, guided by the instructor and the writers (in other words, the school pupils), have performed the texts onstage, with all the school children as an audience. The idea was using the stage with the professional knowledge of the actors and instructors in enforcing the children’s experience of their own expression of language.

Snakk med framtida started as a project financed by money from the action plan for the eastern part of Oslo’s inner city (called Handlingsplan Oslo Indre Øst) in 2000.

Source: The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater), Archive, Snakk med framtida

*Not yet translated into English. The title within parentheses is the Norwegian title's literal meaning.

Contributors (20)
Name Role
Marit Moum Aune – Direction (Forestilling)
Kristina Kjeldsberg – Instruction (Verksted)
Øyvind Kleiven – Music (Forestilling)
Johannes Sæbøe – Music (Forestilling)
Kjersti Svendsen – Stage design (Forestilling)
Kjersti Svendsen – Costume (Forestilling)
Inger Johansen – Lighting design (Forestilling)
Geir Ove Langlo – Lighting design (Forestilling)
Mathias Calmeyer – Actor (Verksted)
Ulrikke Hansen Døvigen – Actor (Verksted)
Silje Færavaag – Actor (Forestilling)
Marianne Mørk Larsen – Actor (Forestilling)
Suzanne Paalgard – Actor (Verksted)
Terje Ranes – Actor (Forestilling)
Christoffer Staib – Actor (Verksted)
Christoffer Staib – Actor (Forestilling)
Toril Paulsen – Project manager
Sanne Wive – Assistant (Verksted)
Rajaa El Qendouci – Other (Forestilling)
Franzisca Aarflot – Other
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