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. To reach as broad an audience as possible, Scandinavian American Theater Company strives to perform both in the Scandinavian languages as well as in English.  Scandinavian American Theater Company will be a home for Scandinavian performing artists in New York and therefore aims to incorporate dance, music and visual arts as well as theater in their productions.

 

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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.


OPENING SEPTEMBER 2010


DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT

created and performed

by Anette Norgaard



Dramatically Different – A Danish Modern Fairytale

www.dramaticallydifferentproductions.com


Dramatically Different is a one-woman show extraordinaire….with music written by Charlie Demos (www.soulfulboi.com) and multi-media and visual effects by Kristen Smart and Jeffrey Grossman, this is a show you MUST see. In the capable hands of Olivia Negron, Anette Norgaards words, acting and singing truly takes flight.


Dramatically Different has been a long way underway like most creative endeavors. Most of the script was written while Anette was working on private yachts and travelling the seven seas from 2004-2006 and then when she arrived in New York it started to really take shape as a collaboration between the many artist involved.


It’s a show about a Danish girl becoming an American woman and the journeys and trials she travels and conquers to get there. The process has been one of developing friendships between and across cultures and Danes and Americans alike can’t wait for this to go up.



Anette Norgaard – Producer, Writer, Performer


Sebastian Nyman Agdur - Director

 

Charlie Demos – Composer

   

Vigdis Hentze Olsen - Choreographer

 

Jeffrey Robert Grossman – Film and Photography

  

Kristen Smart – Multi-Media Design


Olivia Negron – Workshop Director

 

ONGOING


SATC Contemporary Reading Series



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.



October 18 2010

December 6 2010

January 31 2011

May 23 2011


All at 7:30pm

@ Scandinavia House on Park Avenue between 37/38 street



Please keep visiting the site for updates on scripts.

Company photo by Harsha de Silva