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“an example of a play with a very strong concept and
great performances...I can see why it won the Nordic Drama Award;
the play is a solid work and I can fully recommend it to any
audience member looking for a deeper discussion of religion.”
Case Aiken NYTHEATRE.COM Aug 13 2011
THE NEW YORKER recommends SATC’s The Fundamentalist:
Goings On About Town: The Theatre: New York International Fringe Festival
The wide-ranging festival's fifteenth season brings nearly two hundred companies to twenty downtown venues. Highlights include "The Day the Sky Turned Black," a drama by Ali Kennedy Scott, based on the stories of survivors of the catastrophic bushfires in Australia in 2009; Juha Jokela's "The Fundamentalist," presented by Scandinavian American Theatre Company; and, in true Fringe spirit, "Jersey Shoresical: A Frickin' Rock Opera," by Daniel Franzese and Hanna LoPatin.
Thank You to all who came to our first production at the NYFringe. We had a fantastic time and a fantastic response from our audience and supporters.
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HOME SWEET HOME at
SCANDINAVIA HOUSE
one night only
Fri 16th September 2011
8pm
AND
at the Chekhov Theater Festival in Ridgefield, Conneticut
Sat 24th September 2011
8pm
FALL 2011 SCHEDULE
for
READING #1 Sept. 19th 2011
DESIRE by Richard Hobert
SWEDEN
Directed by Christoffer Berdal
READING #2 Nov. 7th 2011
ICELAND & SWEDEN
THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY by Jacob Hirdwall
READING #3 Jan 30th 2012
NORWAY
THE RETURNS by Fredrik Brattberg
directed by Henning Hegland
SATC Contemporary Reading Series: SATC presents five plays annually representing Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands FREE of charge to the public.
MISSION STATEMENT
Scandinavian American Theater Company is a theater company founded to further Scandinavian performing arts in New York by staging innovative productions of plays from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
If you wish to be added to our mailing list please email your details to contact@satcnyc.org
Kim, a former Sergeant in the Danish army, and his girlfriend Iben, an editor of women's magazines, are preparing a "welcome home" dinner for Carsten, Kim's lifelong friend. Carsten has recently returned from service in Iraq. During the evening, the couple are confronted with a person whose understanding of life has become radically different from theirs. A pleasant reunion becomes a fatal evening where all three characters' relationships, values and principles are tested. Inspired by interviews with Danish solders, the award-winning ”Home Sweet Home” reveals the traumatic experience of war and the unsympathetic indifference of home as refracted through a Nordic country.
CAST: Brian Smolin, Lisa Pettersson, Albert Bendix
SET/COSTUMES: Marte Ekhougen
VIDEO: Sebastian Nyman Agdur
SOUND: Jay Spriggs
STAGE MANAGER: Nicholas Meo
PRODUCTION: Vigdis Hentze Olsen (production manager), Henning Hegland and Anette Norgaard
SATC wishes to thank the American Scandinavian Society
for awarding us an Honorary Grant
and supporting our soon to arrive redesigned website.
READING #3 Jan. 30th 2012 8PM
NORWAY
THE RETURNING
by FREDRIK BRATTBERG
translated and directed by Henning Hegland
CONTEMPORARY
SCANDINAVIAN
READING SERIES
SATC’s Spring Production:
The English Language Premiere of the Award Winning Play
The last person you'd ever expect to see...
A mother and a father grieve the tragic and unexpected loss of their only son. The parents are moved by the support of the community and the people that have turned up to share their loss. After the funeral the parents struggle to build a new life together, until one day there's a knock on the front door... A new dark comedy from Norway that takes the audience on a hilarious and unpredictable ride.
About the playwright:
Playwright and composer Fredrik Brattberg (b. 1978, Porsgrunn, Norway) made his debut in 2008 at Oslo’s Student Stage with the play It Knocks, Amadeus/Det Banker, Amadeus. He has participated in The Norwegian Playwrights Festival in Oslo twice with Visit at the Hansen Family Half Past Six/Besøk Hos Familien Hansen Halv Syv (2009), a play about prejudice in which a Norwegian family invites a Muslim to dinner, and again in 2011 with his dark comedy The Returns/Tilbakekomstene, for which he was rewarded the Gledesglasset prize by the Writers Guild of Norway (Dramatikerforbundet). In the summer of 2011, Brattberg participated in Festival of New European Playwrights in Copenhagen with The Returns\Tilbakekomstene. His newest play Monsemann was recently performed a the prestigious Dramatikkens Hus theater in Oslo.
Fredrik Brattberg will be traveling from Norway to attend the reading so come chat with the playwright over a complimentary glass of wine and take advantage of the special SMÖRGÅS offer and have a Scandinavian dinner before the reading.
photo stephen hutton
The Mother - Ingrid Kullberg-Benz
The Father - Clyde Baldo
Gustav, their son - Kristoffer Tonning
Reader - Camilla Skoglie
Translation and Direction by
Henning Hegland
Production Manager -
Sebastian Agdur Nyman
Producers - Albert Bendix,
Lisa Pettersson, Anette Norgaard and Vigdis Hentze Olsen
***SPECIAL OFFER***
Mention SATC and get 15% OFF PRE-READING DINNER at SMÖRGÅS CHEF restaurant in Scandinavia House.
Smörgås serves delicious Scandinavian fare and we at SATC highly recommend it!
In order for you to make the reading, dining should be begun between 5:30pm and 6:30pm.
RESERVATIONS are recommended as seats do fill up:
212-847-9745 or visit:
THE RETURNING
by Fredrik Brattberg
the cast:
