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Riksteatret (English: National Traveling Theater)
is a Norwegian touring
theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...
. It was established by law in 1948.
Its first performance was in
Kirkenes in 1949, with
Sigurd Christiansen's play ''En reise i natten''. The theatre plays on about 200 different stages throughout the country. Its first theatre director was
Fritz von der Lippe, who held this position from 1949 to 1968.
Ellen Horn has been theatre director from 2005.
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References
Theatres in Norway
1948 establishments in Norway
Touring theatre
Performing groups established in 1948
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