The Ibsen Prize AKA The Norwegian Ibsen Award 2016

The Ibsen Prize AKA The Norwegian Ibsen Award

Winners
  • Mette Edvardsen

    Mette Edvardsen received the award for her text to We to be. The jury gave the following reason:

    "Mette Edvardsen's We to be is a meta text that takes advantage of the theatrical situation as its basis for drama. Edvardsen intertwine fiction and reality in a complex and precise dialogue about and with the performance venue, its audience and the theatre as situation. The text can be regarded as an art project examining time and space, more specifically, the theatre of the black box. We to be is local through being anchored in the here and now, but also connects with a global room and an international performing arts contexts in being written in English. The language's very musicality is striking and its choices of words precise. We to be spring out from Edvardsen as an active choreographer and dancer, but the jury finds that the text also contains a large potential for interpretation and realisation beyond her as a performing artist."

    We to be had its world premiere during Oslo International Theatre Festival at Black Box Teater in Oslo March 24 2015. You may read more about the world premiere here.

Nominated (3)
  • Tyra Tønnessen

    For the book of the musical Påfuglen* (The Peacock). Påfuglen had its world premiere at Trøndelag Theatre January 23 2015. You may read more about the world premiere here.

    *Not yet translated into the English. The title within parentheses is the Norwegian title's literal meaning.

  • Mette Edvardsen

    For the text We to be. We to be had its world premiere during Oslo International Theatre Festival at Black Box Teater in Oslo March 24 2015. You may read more about the world premiere here.

  • Kathrine Nedrejord

    For her play Brent jord* (Scorched Earth)Brent jord had its world premiere during The Norwegian Drama Festival in Oslo June 12 2015. You may read more about the world premiere here.

    *Not yet translated into the English. The title within parentheses is the Norwegian title's literal meaning.