Staging Cultural Identities as Political Performance: Hålogaland Teater, North Norwegian stage language and the emancipation of North Norwegian identities

• Published in: Nordic Theatre Studies
• Main Author: Torrissen, Wenche
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Föreningen Nordiska Teaterforskare / Association of Nordic Theatre Scholars 2017
• Subjects: Hålogaland Teater; North Norwegian dialect; stage language; identity; emancipation; Norway; Tromsø; Hålogaland; North Norway
• Online Access: https://tidsskrift.dk/nts/article/view/25600; https://doi.org/10.7146/nts.v28i2.25600

When Hålogaland Teater was established in Tromsø in 1970 as Norway’s first regional theatre, the main goal was to create a professional company that would act as a people’s theatre of North Norway. In order to achieve this, the underlying principle of the theatre was that they should produce plays a...