Mondays @ 8 pm | Pre-reception 7:30 pm
Series resumes January 2014
Free
Scandinavian American Theater Company (SATC) – a collective of theater artists founded to provide Scandinavian perspectives through the new generation of Scandinavian playwrights and artists – introduces a new generation of Nordic playwrights in a series of staged readings representing Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Finland, and Denmark, including Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
We are a Hundred/Vi som är hundra
September 30
Written by Jonas Hassen Khemiri (Sweden, 2009). In their fight to define themselves, a trio of women – a young revolutionary, a middle-aged woman living strictly within her comfort zone, and an old truth seeker – realize that they are, in fact, the same person.
Sleep/Svevn
November 11
Written by Jon Fosse (Norway, 2005). Following the lives of a young man and woman as they age, Sleep is beautiful story about love, disappointment, hope, and death where both the past and future are always a part of the present moment.
Co-presented by the Consulate General of Denmark New York, the Consulate General of Finland in New York, the Consulate General of Iceland in New York, the Royal Norwegian Consulate General of New York, the Consulate General of Sweden in New York, and Scandinavia House.