Nordic Cool 2013
Theater
Vesturport, Iceland: Metamorphosis
This hugely acclaimed production of Kafka's Metamorphosis combines breathtaking physicality and daring aerial action as the recently transformed Gregor lithely negotiates a gravity-defying split level set.
Feb. 20 - 22, 2013
Eisenhower Theater
$29.00 - $60.00
Winter Guests, Norway: Bird in Magic Rain with Tears
This multimedia two-act play that revolves around the intertwined fates of three characters--a conceptual artist grieving over her son's death, a boy-prostitute searching for the truth about his past, and a terminally ill businessman longing for love.
Feb. 20 - 21, 2013
Terrace Theater
$34.00
Teatret Gruppe 38, Denmark: Hans Christian, You Must be an Angel
Award-winning Danish theater company Gruppe 38 celebrates countryman Hans Christian Andersen with a dinner party of sorts. Two waiters have the job of their life: to serve a table filled with Andersen's fantastic fairy tale personalities.
Feb. 23 - 24, 2013
Family Theater
$18.00
'TEATRET,' Denmark: August
August is a touching, fragile, and incredibly funny wordless comedy about the basic things in life. Four individuals go for a walk in a dark, empty space. Here, they come across small bits of life with which we all struggle.
Feb. 23 - 24, 2013
Terrace Theater
$34.00
National Theatre, Norway: Hedda Gabler
Norway's National Theatre performs Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, a powerful and emotionally potent portrayal of a woman's alienation from and suffocation by the bourgeois society of which she has become a part.
Feb. 26 - 27, 2013
Eisenhower Theater
$49.00 - $80.00
Teatret Gruppe 38, Denmark: A Sonatina
Remember that beloved fairy tale where a chicken egg comes to the rescue? No? Maybe that's because you haven't seen Danish theater company Gruppe 38's comedic take on the classic story of Little Red Riding Hood.
Mar. 2 - 3, 2013
Family Theater
$18.00
Tampere Workers' Theatre, Finland: The Warmblooded
Once the proud owners of a small farm, the Kotalas now live beneath the overpass of a forgotten highway alongside a motley crew of drunks and Romanian gypsies in this warm-hearted tale.
Mar. 2 - 3, 2013
Eisenhower Theater
$29.00 - $60.00
Royal Dramatic Theatre, Sweden: Fanny and Alexander
Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre presents the U.S. premiere of Fanny and Alexander, its brilliant stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's Oscar-winning feature film.
Mar. 7 - 9, 2013
Eisenhower Theater
$49.00 - $80.00
Backa Teater, Sweden: Little King Mattias
What if an 11-year-old became king? Would he be so bold as to give his ministers the boot and transfer power to the children of his kingdom? He does when Sweden's Backa Teater tells the tale of Little King Mattias in its US premiere.
Mar. 9 - 10, 2013
Family Theater
$18.00
Nordic Cool 2013 is presented in cooperation with
and Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.
Presenting Underwriter
HRH Foundation
Festival Co-Chairs
The Honorable Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, Marilyn Carlson Nelson, and Barbro Osher
Major support is provided by the Honorable Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, Mrs. Marilyn Carlson Nelson
and Dr. Glen Nelson, the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, David M. Rubenstein,
the State Plaza Hotel,
and the Kennedy Center International Committee on the Arts.
