In addition to performing internationally, composer and vocalist Kristin Norderval divides her time between Oslo and New York, a contrast that perhaps mirrors her own intrepid lifestyle as an artist. She laughs that there are more people riding the daily subway throughout the five boroughs than there are people within…

“I would like to create pieces for my grandmother, yet also stay true to myself, to work with the problems that matter to me and my generation,” explains Nela H. Kornetová, artistic leader of the performance collective T.I.T.S. Born in Hukvaldy, Czech Republic (CZ) but based in Fredrikstad, Norway, Kornetová…

“I am generally not very interested in creating meaning,” says Øystein Elle, reflecting upon his growing body of work. “Perhaps I don’t understand the concept of it. I am attracted to so-called nonsense because it often appears to me as more real than sense.” For the past four years, the…

“A play without music is like taking a trip to the graveyard,” remarks Cliff Moustache, Artistic Director of Nordic Black Theatre in Oslo. “I am still alive. I need to breathe.” While others in Norway enjoy a long summer holiday, this Seychelles-born playwright and director admits that he took off…

While theatre artists around the world may all know A Doll’s House and Hedda Gabler, few are as familiar with what is happening in contemporary Norwegian theatre today. In the Beyond Ibsen series, American expatriate and theatre producer Brendan McCall profiles some of the diverse artists working today in Henrik…

Before departing Vilnius in March 2014, a journalist writing about the Belarusian Dream Theater event asked if I believed that theatre has any impact on politics? Or has the ability to truly change society? Does culture do anything meaningful, he wanted to know, as a “soft weapon” of diplomacy? I’m…