NINE IMAGES FROM THE ODIN TEATRET ARCHIVES
NINE IMAGES FROM THE ODIN TEATRET ARCHIVES

Summary/Abstract: It is one of the first articles on Odin Teatret, founded in Oslo in October 1964. Title: Oslo receives an experimental theatre. The article focuses mainly on what appeared to be the strangest characteristics of the group: the fact that they were self-taught, and the hard training (even ten hours per day) that the young actors practised daily under the guidance of Eugenio Barba. The article discloses the preparation of the group’s first performance: Ornitofilene, taken from a play by the renown and controversial Norwegian writer Jens Bjørneboe. The article includes fragments from an interview to Barba on his theatre background in Poland (between 1961 and 1964) and his apprenticeship at Jerzy Grotowski’s Teatr-Laboratorium.

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