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JORDENS SØJLER (THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH)

by Ken Follett / Thomas Poul Bjørn Høg / Lasse Aagaard / Sune Vibæk Svanekier

6 F / 10 M

Musical

Danish text

Set in 12th-century England, the master builder Tom Builder dreams of creating a cathedral the world has never seen before. A dream carried on by his stepson, Jack, and intertwined with the noblewoman Aliena’s struggle for survival and love in a brutal world shaped by power, war, and religious corruption. THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH is a sweeping historical drama about ambition, faith, art, and human determination – and about the price of fighting for something greater than oneself.

JORDENS SØJLER (THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH) ©Juul Fotografi

JORDENS SØJLER (THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH) ©Juul Fotografi

THE 39 STEPS, Himmerlands Teater 2019

THE 39 STEPS

by Patrick Barlow (after Alfred Hitchcock & John Buchan)

1F / 3 M

Comedy

English text – Translated into Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish

Richard Hannay is accused of a murder he didn’t commit. In the effort to clear his name and pursued by spies and police across Britain, he must unravel the mystery plot of “The 39 Steps” in a wildly funny adventure, where four actors play dozens of roles at a breakneck pace.

THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG

by Henry Shields / Jonathan Sayer / Henry Lewis

2 F / 6 M

Comedy

English text – Translated into Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Danish

An amateur drama society attempts to stage a 1920s murder mystery, but everything that can go wrong does-rops break, actors miss cues, scenery collapses, and chaos escalates into side-splitting disaster as the cast desperately tries to keep the show going

THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG ©Karri Lämpsä

THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG ©Karri Lämpsä

NOISES OFF

by Michael Frayn

4 F / 5 M

Comedy

English text – Translated into Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Danish

A theatre company’s attempt to perform a farce spirals into backstage mayhem, complete with collapsing props, jealous tantrums, romantic mix-ups, and nonstop door-slamming chaos. ”Noises Off” delivers pure, high-speed comic disaster as the show falls apart and the actors desperately try to hold it together.

NOISES OFF ©Iisa Manninen – Kuopion kaupunginteatteri

NOISES OFF ©Iisa Manninen – Kuopion kaupunginteatteri

JANE EYRE

by Charlotte Brontë Adapted by Tone Schunnesson

6 F / 2 M

Drama

Swedish text

The young, orphaned Jane searches for her own voice in a world ruled by class, gender and desire. As governess at Thornfield Hall, she meets the enigmatic Mr Rochester, and their love is challenged by the secrets the house holds. Tone Schunnesson’s stage adaptation combines Gothic intensity with modern language and feminist awareness in a poetic tale of freedom, identity and power.

JANE EYRE ©Tone Schunnesson

JANE EYRE ©Tone Schunnesson

JANE EYRE ©Tone Schunnesson

FLUMPS

by Emma Jo Pallett

1 F & 1 D / M / non-binary

Drama

English text

Award-winning (Best New Play 2025 UK Theatre Awards) debut play about the siblings Felicity and Harvey, who are abandoned by their drug-addicted mother in a caravan and must try to survive on their own until the authorities discover them. Flumps is a darkly humorous and touching tale of childhood strength, sibling love, and the imaginative ways we look out for each other. The character, Harvey, can be played by a female, male, or non-binary actor.

FLUMPS©Will Green

FLUMPS©Will Green

FLUMPS©Will Green