Please Join us for a Theatre Festival celebrating Lars Norén:

 

Friday, Nov 18

5:00 PM: Terminal 3 - staged reading by Kate Mendeloff

6:30 PM: Lecture

Reception

8:00 PM: War, directed by Malcolm Tulip

Q&A

 

Saturday, Nov 19

5:00 PM: Blood - guest staged by Akvavit Theater, Chicago

Reception

8:00 PM: War, directed by Malcolm Tulip

 

Sunday, Nov 20

12:00 PM: Terminal 3 - staged reading by Kate Mendeloff

2:00 PM: War, directed by Malcolm Tulip

 

All events in Studio 1, Walgreen Drama Center, North Campus

 

Lars Norén is considered the greatest contemporary Swedish playwright since August Strindberg, having written more than 75 plays. Regularly performed on stages in the Nordic countries and Europe for several decades, his plays are finally available in translation from Swedish by Marita Lindholm Gochman, published by Richard Altschuler & Associates Inc/Chauser Press Books.

 

Three of Norén’s plays are presented at the festival: Terminal 3, War and Blood.

Terminal 3 (2006), staged reading directed by Kate Mendeloff , RC: a beautiful, sparse play set in a hospital waiting room where a young couple is there to welcome the birth of their first baby and a middle-age couple is there to identify their dead son.

War (2005), studio production directed by Malcolm Tulip, Department of Theatre & Drama: a raw depiction of a family reduced to mere survival, set in an unnamed war-torn country. Their world explodes when the mother, her brother-in-law, and her daughters must confront the unexpected return of her husband-who was presumed to be killed in action-and is now blind.

Blood (1994), guest staged reading by Akvavit Theatre: about a wife and husband tormented over their missing son and the husband's male lover, who are eventually brought together in a heartrending denouement as the unbearable truth of their lives is revealed.  Akvavit Theatre, based in Chicago is performing contemporary drama from all Nordic countries striving to find the universal through the voices of the Nordic world.

 

After the performances, the directors as well as the translator, Marita Lindholm Gochman will be available for Q and A. All performances are free.

The Theatre festival is a co-production between the Germanic Department and its Scandinavian Program, the Residential College, the Department of Theatre & Drama, and the Akvavit Theatre, with additional sponsorship from the Swedish Institute and SWEA Michigan.

Terminal 3, published in Three Plays: Demons, Act, and Terminal 3, by Lars Norén,  translated from the Swedish by Marita Lindholm Gochman, ©Marita Lindholm Gochman, 2013, Publisher: Richard Altschuler & Associates, Inc./ Chaucer Press Books.

And, Blood and War, published in Blood and War, by Lars Norén, translated from the Swedish by Marita Lindholm Gochman, ©Marita Lindholm Gochman, 2014, Publisher Richard Altschuler & Associates, Inc./ Chaucer Press Books.

 

The program pdf is available here: https://lsa.umich.edu/content/dam/german-assets/german-documents/Noren%20Program.pdf

Our webpage with the contents of the program is available here: https://lsa.umich.edu/german/noren