Norway Festivals

Theatre and Stage Art Festivals cont’d.
Market for Performance Arts
http://markedet.org/markedet/
09.05. - 12.05.2011
An unique arena for presentation, purchase and
sales of professional “performing arts” for
children. Set in Sandefjord.
Norwegian Amateur Theatre Festival
www.teaterfestival.no
23.05. - 29.05. 2011
Norwegian Youth League in cooperation with
The Norwegian Theatre in Oslo. Local groups play
on a professional stage.
Porsgrunn International Theatre Festival
www.pit.no
22.06. - 26.06.2011
PIT presents innovative visual theatre. We
programme professional, for the most part non
text-based work, which can include animation
theatre, circus skills, mask, mime, clown and
visual theatre. Set in Porsgrunn.
The Great Norwegian Comedy Festival
www.humorfestivalen.no
05.10. - 08.10.2011
The Great Norwegian Comedy Festival 2011 gives
you some of the funniest performers from our
region, Rogaland, from Oslo and from abroad.
Set in Stavanger.
The Kings Ring
www.heroyspelet.no
02.07. - 03.07.2011
Presenting the viking misical The Kings Ring on
a fantastic outdoors stage on an island outside the
northern-western coast of Norway, in Fosnavåg.
The Peer Gynt Festival
www.peergynt.no
03.08. - 14.08. 2011
Theatre, music, literature and visual art. The Peer
Gynt festival at Vinstra invites you to Henrik Ibsens
play Peer Gynt with music by edvard Grieg.
Set in Vinstra, Gudbrandsdalen.
Stamsund International Theatre Festival
www.stamfest.no
24.05. - 28.05. 2011
SIT presents contemporary performing arts in the
setting of a small fishing village in the Lofoten
Islands in the north of Norway. The festival
presents around 40 performances each year, and
draws a mixed audience - artists from all over
Europe joining the local audience.
Ålesund Theatre Festival
www.aalesund_teaterfestival.no
March 2011
Ålesund Teaterfestival is a local festival which
presents a wide range of performing arts.