Schauspiel Frankfurt shows "The Vikings at Helgeland" by Henrik Ibsen, a guest performance from Norway.
Production by the Nationaltheatret, Oslo
Guest performance with German supertitles - made possible by NORLA
Henrik Ibsen’s early drama is an intrigue drama, a feminist battle cry and a family tragedy. Hjørdis is an archetype for Ibsen: she understands that she lives in a failed marriage, and revenges the lie that surrounds her proudly and passionately. The young and upcoming director Eline Arbo sets the events from the Viking Age into a post-apocalyptic age, where our notions of rights and equality become unstable. How can one survive in an extreme world, where everyone must fight for what is theirs?
ELINE ARBO is from Tromsø, a small town over the Polar Circle in Nort Norway. After studying drama at the University of Oslo, Arbo moved to Amsterdam to study Management at the Amsterdam School of Theatre. During her final year she completed an internship at the Toonelgroep Amsterdam at the production of „The year of cancer“ directed by Luk Perceval. For her production of „The Sorrows of Young Werther“ Arbo won the BNG Bank Theatre Prize 2018.
Performances: 16th and 17th October in the Kammerspiele
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