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Posted on 2012-11-21 by Micke Klingvall

Millenieprojektet (The millennia project)

Opening 27/12-1999 Manus och regi – Micke Klingvall Zanni, Coviello – Micaela Gustavsson Signora – Anna Fredriksson Capitano – Jonas Larsson Charlatano – Lars Brinck Kostym – Elin Snarf Masker – Micke Klingvall & Marte Reitan Produktion – Cais-Mari Björnlod … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on 2012-03-16 by Micke Klingvall

Low Comedy in Vulgar Comedy (Part 2)

But except from that about “the material-bodily lower” (See PART 1), Mikhail Bakhtin also states that common people at the time neither trusted seriousness nor people who were serious. They were a threat since the only ones that benefited from … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on 2012-03-10 by Micke Klingvall

Early religion

As an example of how religion and the relations between gods and the people (HERE I’ve written about the impact it made in Scandinavian theatre) has changed we can study the story about Noah and the deluge. The first time … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on 2011-11-25 by Micke Klingvall

Vulgar Comedy and its origins in Scandinavia (Part 3)

The very first signs of any kind of Swedish theatrical activity are found in the Bronze Age finds from the ritual site in Skogstorp and the petroglyphs in Tanumshede, Nämforsen, Oppeby and Norrköping among others. On the stone carvings we … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on 2011-11-23 by Micke Klingvall

Vulgar Comedy and its origins in Scandinavia (Part 2)

When society started to specialize and build hierarchies, this also refers to theatre. It is here we first see how court theatre mark off. The rites are no longer collective. The shaman, the priest or the king, who has gotten … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on 2011-11-22 by Micke Klingvall

Vulgar Comedy and its origins in Scandinavia (Part 1)

In Scandinavia we didn’t really have court or official theatre until Christianity was introduced, not even in its early, crude form. In order to prove that, I lean on research about early, international theatre and on theatre in a wide … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on 2011-07-22 by Micke Klingvall

Vulgar Comedy and monarchy

Thinking about nobilities, they are fun. Kings and queens are just the same kind of outsiders as usual clowns who looks at the world and doesn’t understand it, with the exception that nobilities are looking at the world from above. … Read the rest of this entry →

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