Muohtadivggažat/The Sound of Snow

At the webpage of Ferske Scener the following, among other things, is written about Muohtadivggažat/The Sound of Snow:

"The space the performance takes place in, is inspired by a legendary bar in Boris Gleb the summer of 1965. For a few months, the border was open, and Norwegians and Finns came to party in hordes.

The text is written by poet and playwright Rawdna Carita Eira. It is about the Skolt Samis homeland, escape, ability to survive - and the deepest hole in the world. Beneath is an understanding that the human presence will not last forever.

The story

The year is 2015. The young woman Anna is not far from Zapoljarny, close to the Norwegian border, with a well-used man's bike from 1939. In this homeland, the borders have changed, and people have always been wandering. Anna grabs hold of the opportunities she sees. At the same time, the story of her family is told, from the end of the 1800es. Part of her family stems from Notozero at the Russian side and from Suonjel Suenjel at the Finnish side, another part from Varanger in Norway. Anna is of Skolt Sami descent, but this is no more important to her than her other experiences. She is first and foremost a survivor, one who sees opportunities. She isn't a 'good' person. She is a person.

Anna's bicycle and her maternal grandfather, the fibber and survivor Sasha, brings the audience in and out of events such as the displacement of the Skolt Samis, Crown Princess Märtha's escape to USA in 1940, Alexander Rybak's Eurovision Song Contest victory in 2009 - and the meeting with the many refugees who came over Storskog in 2015, represented by the Syrian refugee girl Haya and her father."

SOURCE:

The National Sami Theatre, beaivvas.no, 18.05.2021, https://beaivvas.no/nb/lyden-av-sno/

Ferske Scener, ferskescener.no, 02.04.2020, https://www.ferskescener.no/forestilling/muohtadivggazat-lyden-av-sno/