Tore Vagn Lid


Tore Vagn Lid is a Norwegian theatre director, playwright, musician, academic researcher and artistic director of Transiteatret-Bergen . Tore Vagn Lid holds a professorship in Norwegian University of Science and Technology. and was professor in Directing and Dramaturgy at Oslo National Academy of the Arts. In 2018 Tore Vagn Lid was a guest professor in Dramaturgy at the Institute of Theatre- Film- and Media Science at Goethe University Frankfurt
He earned a PhD from the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen, Germany. Central in what is seen as a new political turn in the contemporary Norwegian theater. He has also written numerous articles, especially focusing on the relationship between theater and music, music dramaturgy, directing and artistic research.

Artistic work / research

In 2008 Lid was selected to the program "Young directors project" for the Salzburg Festival with his staging of Brecht/Eislers play The Measures Taken. The theater suite Elephant Stories was an audio-visual confrontation between the theater room and a "new naturalism" represented by the new neuro-sciences. Following up this critical discussion, he used Gerhart Hauptmanns naturalistic piece Before Sunrise as a prism towards an upcoming new naturalism .
Under the motto "Theatre in times of crisis" Lid constructed Brechts "Fatzer" for the Bergen International Festival 2012 recognized in both Norwegian and German press .
During 2012 - 2013 Vagn Lid has developed a trilogy called "Games of sorrow".
In his music-dramaturgical conception, Lid searches for, and tries to articulate... "the individuals inside the systems and, the other way around, the systems inside the individuals". The concept attempts "to overcome the gap between the typical individualization of the "classical" theatre on the one hand, and the statistical abstractions of the "documentary" theatre, on the other".
The first of Vagn Lids Games of Sorrow was STRAFF, performed for the first time at Logen Teater in Bergen, September dato 2012. The second one was "KILL THEM ALL!" written for, and performed at Nationaltheatret in Oslo, February 2013, both receiving outstanding reviews, and released discussions also outside Norway . The last part of the trilogy is "JudasEvangeliet", developed with Transiteatret-Bergen for The Ultima Contemporary Music Festival in Oslo with premiere at the Opera September 11, 2013

Awards

  • Hedda Award in 2008 for his direction of the play Mann=Mann, a cooperation between Transiteatret-Bergen and Rogaland Teater.
  • 2009 Hedda Award -"Event of the year" of the play Operasjon Almenrauschr , based on the World War II Operation Almenrausch, produced Agder Teater and Vest-Agder Fylkeskommune in October 2008.
  • In 2012 Tore Vagn Lid received both Nordic Radio Play-award and the NRK Bluebird award for his radio-play produced and sent by . The radio play was also promoted as Norwegian contribution for the 2012 edition.
  • Bergen kommunes kunstnerpris 2012
  • In 2013 Tore Vagn Lid receives The Norwegian Theatere Critics Award 2012/2013 for his game of sorrow#2, KILL THEM ALL! which made with the National Theatre The Norwegian Theatre Critics Award is awarded by the Norwegian Critics' Association and has been awarded every year since 1939.
  • 2016 - Hedda Award: "Best director" "Vår Ære/vår Makt"
  • 2016 - Hedda Award: "Best drama" "Vår Ære/vår Makt"
  • The National Ibsen Award 2017 for "Vår Ære/Vår Makt" 2016.
  • 2020 Hedda Award: "Exceptional Artistic Achievement"
  • 2020 Hedda Award: "Best Audio Visual Design"

Worklist

  • Triggersystemet 1 - - 2024
  • 1984? - 2023
  • Kunsten å lage en felle - 2022
  • Tolvskillingsoperaen - 2021
  • "03:08:38 Tilstander av Unntak" -2020
  • Peer Gynt DUB - 2019
  • Underkastelser - 2018
  • Highway Hypnosis -2017
  • Fyrsten -Machiavelliversjonar - 2017
  • Vår Ære/Vår Makt - 2016/2017
  • Fridomens Vegar -2016
  • DUB-Leviathan -2015
  • Judasevangeliet – Sørgespill by T.V.Lid
  • Kill Them All! sørgespill by T.V.Lid
  • Straff- sørgespel by T.V.Lid
  • Fatzer by Bertolt Brecht, construction by Tore Vagn Lid
  • Sound of Science - a Stage Seminar by T.V.Lid
  • Før Soloppgang –, Den Nationale Scene
  • Enron by Lucy Preble
  • Ressentiment- Pavane til en død prinsesse by T.V.Lid
  • Ut, ut i det grønne! by T.V.Lid
  • Polyfonia-Variasjoner by T.V.Lid
  • Elephant Stories - E. Jelinek, Ùber Tiere / T.V. Lid, "Passacaglia" -
  • Embargo
  • Operasjon Almenrausch by T.V.Lid
  • Mann = Mann by Bertolt Brecht
  • Die Massnahme
  • Polyfonia
  • Karierekonstruktivisme by Julian Von Gärtner Blaue
  • To be continued...
  • -Esse est percipi
  • -The Great Pop Ambient Pub Quiz Show
  • -Expanding the Battlezone- audio visual dialogues with Michel Houellebecq
  • Maybe it's Too Nice
  • Trio for to skuespillere og spansk gitar
  • Walk Cat, Walk!
  • Opus 1 - Maktens Anatomi

Books

  • Reflekxive Dramaturgy - 2019
  • Gegenseitige Verfremdungen - Theater als kritischer Erfahrungsraum im Stoffwechsel zwischen Bühne und Musik
  • Estetisk Safari
-Translations/Reconstructions-
  • Fatzer, Bertolt Brecht
  • Avgjørelsen, Bertolt Brecht