The Dramatist Studio of Sweden (Swedish: Sveriges dramatikers studio, Dramatikerstudion) is a Swedish theatre group founded in 1940 with the objective of performing new plays by Swedish and other Scandinavian dramatists.
The group was started in 1939 and officially organised in 1942 in Stockholm by the writers Brita von Horn and Vilhelm Moberg and the actor and producer Helge Hagerman.[1] Horn's friend the drama critic Elsa Collin was the secretary. The objective was to counter the carefully neutral dramatic offerings by the official theatres during World War II and encourage playwrights to write drama relevant to contemporary politics.[1]
There are varying accounts of whose idea the group originally was, but Horn was the driving force behind it. Moberg was initially the president, later succeeded by the author Bertil Malmberg.[1] The actor Börje Mellvig was artistic director at one point.[2] Horn herself took over as leader until 1958.
Initially the Dramatist Studio had no fixed home, presenting plays in various locations including touring productions. It was later based at Hamngatan 28, in the former flat of the operetta prima donna Anna Norrie, where from 1950 the company presented chamber theatre[3] as had previously been done in Germany, and in America by Orson Welles.[4] (The site is now occupied by an H & M and a carpark.) In 1948 the company added the Bygdeteater, a programme to present plays in rural areas in collaboration with agricultural organisations and the National Swedish Touring Theatre.[3]
Ingmar Bergman directed several plays for the Dramatist Studio in 1943–44.[5] The group gave playwrights an opportunity to experiment and launched the careers of some actors and directors; it also produced some unknown works by famous Swedish dramatists.[3] Others associated with it include Willy Peters, Gunnar Sjöberg, Tord Stål, Ingrid Luterkort, Sif Ruud, Ingrid Borthen and Gunnar Björnstrand, and the directors Olof Molander and Per Lindberg.
^ abcBirgitta Steene, Ingmar Bergman: A Reference Guide, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University, 2005, ISBN 9789053564066, p. 506.
^P. O. Qvist, Börje Mellvig biography Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Swedish Film Institute Swedish film database, 2004, retrieved 21 July 2014 (in Swedish).
^ abcS., "Svenska dramatikers studio" Archived May 31, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, Svensk Uppslagsbok, 1955 ed. (in Swedish).
^"I en kammare mot Hamngatan", Vår Tid, 1951, p. 18 (in Swedish).
^Steene, pp. 506–11.
and 24 Related for: Dramatist Studio of Sweden information
Moberg and Helge Hagerman of the DramatistStudioofSweden (Swedish: Sveriges dramatikers studio, Dramatikerstudion). The studio's first two plays were Ebbe...
proponent of an avant-garde, meticulously descriptive writing, as an exponent of autobiographical prose, and also as a politically engaged dramatist. He gained...
Coopersmith, American dramatist ('Twas the Night Before Christmas), dies at age 97. July 23: Pamela Blair, American actress (voice of Flight Attendant and...
The Maids (French: Les Bonnes) is a 1947 play by the French dramatist Jean Genet. It was first performed at the Théâtre de l'Athénée in Paris in a production...
This is a list of events in 2024 relating to television in the United Kingdom. Death announced on this date. Body found on this date. Paterson, Colin (31...
Portuguese footballer (Sporting CP, national team). Edward Bond, 89, British dramatist (Saved, Narrow Road to the Deep North, The Sea) and theatre director....
Times. Page 1, columns 7-8. Retrieved 12 November 2023. "Marcel Achard, Dramatist, Dies". The New York Times. 5 September 1974. Page 40, columns 5-6. Retrieved...
of the Opera). Charlie Strutton, 34, English footballer (Chalfont St Peter, AFC Wimbledon, Slough Town). Movlud Suleymanli, 80, Azerbaijani dramatist...
Ann Henning Jocelyn (born 1948) is a Swedish-born playwright, translator and author, based in Ireland since the 1980s. Ann Margareta Maria Henning was...
issue of Moskovsky Gorodskoi Listok (Moscow City Paper) as a collaboration with actor and a minor dramatist Dmitry Gorev who had co-written one scene of it...
theatre would reach its peak. The notion of a great Elizabethan era depends largely on the builders, dramatists, poets, and musicians who were active during...
activist, cofounder of FEMEN, hanging Shah Begum (1604), first wife of Emperor Jahangir, opium overdose Shahrzad (1937), Iranian dramatist and playwright Shamash-shum-ukin...
selling book series of all time. The English playwright and poet William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest dramatistof all time. Other important...
Television in 1954. The studio was used for early editions of the music chart show Top of the Pops between 1964 and 1966. The studio closed in 1975, when...
a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame". Variety. Retrieved October 3, 2022. Harvey, Jonanthan Beautiful Thing Dramatists Play Services, Inc. January 16...
25 November 1912 – 11 April 1998) was an English dramatist and author, best known for the creation of the character Paul Temple, the gentlemanly detective...
(Fujian Branch of China Dramatists Association): 11. 1985. 近年拍摄的戏曲片《白蛇传》观众人数最多,达七亿人次、《七品芝麻官》五亿人次。 [In recent years, the opera film "Legend of the White Snake"...
Richard I of England and Philip II of France. Henry of Antioch, the son of Bohemund IV of Antioch, drowned at sea in June 1276. King Magnus IV ofSweden and...
This is a list of real organisms with scientific names chosen to reference works of fiction. List of unusual biological names List of organisms named...
merchants of Jewish ancestry. His uncle Ludvig Josephson (1832–1899) was a dramatist and his uncle Jacob Axel Josephson (1818–1880) was a composer. When he...
first studio album, Red Roses for Me, in October 1984. Named after the 1942 play by Irish dramatist Seán O'Casey, the album featured a mix of traditional...
Global Information