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COMING IN FALL 2005 TO DEUTSCHES HAUS, 420 West 116th Street, New York City THE SWEDISH PROGRAM OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESENTS Press Release on Fall '05 Swedish Program Events Tuesday, October 25, at 7 p.m. NIELS INGWERSEN (.pdf) Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison, speaks in English on "Subversive Storytellers of the North: From Anonymous Iconoclasts to Hans Christian Andersen." Thursday, November 17 ALVA & GUNNAR (.pdf) 91 Days in the Long-Distance Relationship of the Myrdals One Summer During World War II By Hans Hederberg A One-Act Play Based on a 2004 Documentary Study of the Nobel Laureates' Personal Correspondence. In English at 8 p.m.; in Swedish at 6 p.m. The English version, translated by Verne Moberg and directed by Robert Greer, features Mary Keefe as Alva and Thom Sesma as Gunnar. The Swedish drama, directed by Malin Tybahl, features Elise Rovinsky as Alva and Björn Olsson as Gunnar. |