OPENING NOVEMBER 13 2010
HOME SWEET HOME
by Andreas Garfield
directed by
Christoffer Berdal
A young Danish soldier, recently returned from Iraq, arrives for dinner at his best friend and his best friend’s girlfriend’s house. During the course of the evening, the couple is confronted with a person who has a radically different understanding of life than the one they know and practice. It becomes a fatal evening for the three of them, where relationships, values and principles are put to the test.
Based on true events, Andreas Garfield tells a psychological drama about the brutality and unsympathetic reality of war, sat across from a privileged daily life characterized by an as unsympathetic indifference.
Christoffer Berdal, Director
Christoffer Berdal, born 1967, is one of Denmark’s most sought-after current directors. He graduated from the Danish National School of Theatre in 1998 and has since kept busy directing plays in all genres; from classics, to musicals to notable new Danish and International drama. He has worked at the major theaters all over Denmark as well as Internationally. He is also a returning director at Groennegaardsteatret, the Danish equivalent of Shakespeare in Park in Copenhagen.
His credits, a total of over 60 productions, include Shakespeare’s Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing, Chekhov’s The Seagull, The Master Builder by Ibsen, Tartuffe, The Misanthrope and Don Juan by Molière, The Threepenny Opera and Baal by Brecht, Private Lives by Noel Coward, Cabaret by Kander/Ebb, and Company by Sondheim.
Berdal has also taught at the national theatre schools across Denmark, The National Film School of Denmark and the Aarhus Theatre Playwright School. He is a multiple time recipient of the Danish Arts Counsel’s competitive travel and work grants, most recently in 2010, to direct Home Sweet Home for SATC in New York. Other awards include the prestigious Teaterkatten in 2008 for Director of the Year, Preben Neergaards Honorary Grant in 2008, Erling Schroeder’s Memorial Grant in 2003 and the Reumert Talent Prize in 1999.
Andreas Garfield, Playwright
Andreas Garfield, born 1976, graduated from the playwright division of Aarhus Theatre, Denmark, in 2007. That same year he won the prestigious Reumert Talent Prize for his play Home Sweet Home (Hjem Kære Hjem). Home Sweet Home was also nominated in the categories of Best Play and Best Leading Actor, and won in the category of Best Supporting Actor. Andreas Garfield’s plays have since been produced in theaters all over Denmark and Scandinavia. SATC is proud to present the US-premier, and for the first time in English, Home Sweet Home.
