Samovarteateret is a theatre company organized as an A/S. Since the beginning Samovarteateret has produced performances where the performers are working in the crossing-point betweeen text, movement and music. The first 10 years we collaborated a lot with artists from Russia, Finland and Sweden. The last years our network has expanded to include artists from the Baltic States, Barcelona and Caucasus. We explore the meetings of the different languages and cultures that takes place on stage. In our international productions the artists often speak their own language on stage. Samovarteateret has also, since the beginning, produced newly-written performances for youth, based on stories they can relate to and som of the challenges youth are facing today. A samovar (a russian tea-boiler) literally means self-brewer. It’s hot, beautiful to look at, and you can fill it up and draw upon. It constantly simmers. This is the way we believe that a theater should work, hence our name: Samovarteateret. We have our offices and stage at Scene 2 in Kirkenes 1420 km in air-line from Oslo, which equals the distance between Oslo and the North-Italian border. Kirkenes and Sør–Varanger kommune share borders with Russland and Finland. This has always been an international community.

www.samovar.no

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