Beaivváš Sámi Teáhter, which is the Norwegian National Sami Theatre, shall visit India and Mumbai for the first time.
Their performance will be 'The Frost Haired and the Dream Seer'. This is the only play the famous Sami poet, Nils Aslak Valkeapää (1943-2001), wrote. Inspired by the classical Japanese Noh theatre, Valkeapää wrote this dream-play using the structure of Noh, but giving it Sámi content, expressing his own philosophy of life in the poetry of the text.samiinfo.doc
Venue: Muktakaash Rangamunch, Lecture Hall Complex, Vidyanagari Campus, Kalina, Santacruz (East), MUMBAI
When: 13th January, 2009, 7:30 PM
The performance will have Englsih supertexts. The text can also be provided by e-mail upon request.
For further information, please contact artistic director Haukur J. Gunnarsson, haukur.gunnarsson@beaivvas.no, or visit their home page www.beaivvas.no.