The Jewish Theatre () was a privately owned Swedish theatre and an experimental scenic cultural center on Jewish cultural grounds in Stockholm, Sweden.
History During the 20th century, there has been a few standalone Jewish theatre ensembles and productions accruing in Stockholm. Between 1995 and 2015 a Jewish cultural theatre place was created, when the Judiska teatern started its activity with productions, especially with cooperation with Dramaten, Riksteatern och Radioteatern. The theatre has been located in its own building in a modernized skittle alley from the 1880s by Djurgårdsbrunnsvägen 59 at Djurgården, however since 2013 the theatre is closed with a possible future in a different form.Svt kultur: Judiska teatern stängs, publicerad 12 mars 2013. The organization was driven and financed mainly by the financier Robert Weil and his company Proventus since 1997 and with director Pia Forsgren as artistic director. The company was not limited to only Jewish authors or cooperators, but had a Jewish-culturual perspective on productions, such as Stilla vatten by Lars Norén, Aska by Harold Pinter, Försoningsdagen by Marianne Goldman, Kristallvägen by Katarina Frostenson, Savannah Bay by Marguerite Duras, and many successful directors, actors, musicians, et al. that have participated over the years.
The company was not limited to traditional theatre, but often has an experimental approach, was not limited to tradicional theatre, but had an experimental approach, and all productions within, as dance, music, fiilm, poetry and exhibitions, as the noticed Flykt och förvandling - Nelly Sachs, författare, Berlin/Stockholm (2010) about the exiled nobelpristagaren Nelly Sachs. In connection with this, also the youth literature prize Lilla Nelly Sachspriset (after the German role model Nelly Sachs Pris) related to the theatre.The first prize 2010 went to 17-åriga Greta Maria Asgeirsdottir. The Prize has supposedly not been handed out again.
The Jewish Theatre (Judiska teatern) was from 2004 also of the dividends of the Swedish Cikada-priset to the memory of poet Harry Martinson.
Remarkable performances
1997 - About Night Reads The Stars - Basia Frydman and Tana Ross. 1999 - Ashes To Ashes 2002 - Crystal Roads 2003 - About Spoonface Steinberg 2004 - We're Not Falling 2006 - About Shadowtime 2006 - FURO (reopened in Tel Aviv in 2008)
References
Stora Kägelbanan that became Judiska Teatern, av Margareta Cramèr, 2007 Spoonface Steinberg, by Lee Hall, Judiska Teatern 2003 MD: Marguerite Duras världspremiär: Hundarna i Prag, Judiska teatern, Stockholm 2007 / [program editor: Pia Forsgren och Barbro Schultz Lundestam] The Jewish Theatre presents Lee Yanor, [edited by Anders Wester, Pia Forsgren and Lina Österman], Judiska Teatern 2010.
External links
Judiska teaterns webbplats Judiska Teaterns arkiv, Musik- och teaterbiblioteket (Musikverket)