Tore Vagn Lid
Tore Vagn Lid
Norwegian director / autor and musician. Born in Bergen 1973. Artistic director of Transiteatret-Bergen. PhD from the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies, Giessen (Germany). Has both directed and written a number of award-winning performances, including "Operation Almenrausch" (2008), "Polyphonia" (2007), “Esse est precipi” (2006) and "Walk Cat, Walk!" (2002). Selected to the program "Young directors project" for the Salzburg Festival 2008 with his staging of Brecht/Eislers “The Measures Taken” (Die Massnahme). Central in what is seen as a new political turn in the contemporary Norwegian theater. Has also written numerous articles, especially focusing on the relationship between theater and music, musicdramaturgy and musical strategies for theater directing. His last performance to date, the theater suite “Elephant Stories” (performed at The Bergen International Festival and at The Festival for contemporary theater at the National Theater, Oslo 2009)is an audio-visual confrontation between the theater room and a "new naturalism" represented by the new neuro-sciences.
Dramaturgy Dramaturge Bertolt Brecht List of theatre directors in the 20th-21st centuries Transiteatret-Bergen
