| Summary: | The dissertation: «De politiske gruppeteatrene i Norge – Estetisk-politiske virkemidler og kollektive praksiser: Svartkatten, Pendlerne, Hålogaland Teater, Perleporten og Tramteatret» has as its main research focus the collectively run political theatre groups in Norway during the 1970s. The four groups analysed are Nationaltheatrets oppsøkende teater, Hålogaland Teater, Perleporten Teatergruppe and Tramteatret. The study is timely due to the lack of research within Norwegian theatre historiography on political group theatre and these particular four groups. It contributes to research in the field by adopting a new perspective on the political group theatres in Norway and by focusing on theatrical strategies within their performances, as well as seeing these strategies as a form of political aesthetics. The political theatre of the 1970s is contextualised through a theatre historiographical lens where the political aesthetics are viewed as recurring in waves. Through my research I have identified three waves of political theatre, the first starting in Soviet Union during the post-1917 revolution, a theatre movement that spread worldwide, and reached Norway in the 1930s. The second wave is connected to the May 1968 student uprising, which unfolded on Norwegian stages in the 1970s. The latest wave, which is currently being staged in Norway, is generally understood to have emerged in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. However, this last movement truly peeked in Norway in the mid to late 2010s, with the performances Nordting (2014) and Ways of Seeing (2018). I give examples of Norwegian theatre companies and theatre productions in all the three waves of political theatre, both in the article “Dokumentarteater, Hyperteater og hverdags-eksperter: i norsk politisk teater” (2017), and in the last chapter of the kappa. The study is developed around four articles. These four articles are case studies on the performances and the cultural contexts in which the four mentioned theatre groups operated when creating ...
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