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SWEDISH DESIGN
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| DESIGN AND DRAMA will be the focus of two special events presented by the Columbia University Swedish Program this spring. Both will be held at Deutsches Haus, located at 420 W. 116th Street (between Amsterdam Ave. and Morningside Dr., NYC). | ||
| The first program, “Democratizing Beauty: The Politics of Swedish Design from Ellen Key to IKEA,” will be a talk in English by Australian architect Lucy Creagh, scheduled for 7 pm Tuesday, March 2, 2004. Discussing the theories of social reformer Ellen Key and art historian Gregor Paulsson, Ms. Creagh will explore the history and continuing ties between industrialized design production and the Swedish Social Democratic project. Lucy Creagh is a PhD candidate at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture. Her research focuses on the architecture of the Swedish consumer cooperative movement. | ||
| This talk on Swedish design will be sponsored by the Swedish Program at Columbia University in cooperation with the Swedish Women's Educational Association--New York Chapter. | ||
| The second event of the spring season will be an Actors Equity reading of “Hanna’s Midsummer,” a drama in two acts by Swedish Playwright Margareta Garpe. The play was translated from the Swedish by Verne Moberg, and will be staged by Robert Greer with professional actors. | ||
| The program is set for 7 p.m. Friday, April 16, 2004, also at Deutsches Haus. | ||
| “Hanna’s Midsummer” reveals what happens when a bright, modern, mature Swedish woman is forced to re-examine her relations with her husband, her daughter, and the woman she calls her best friend. Life in the country--she learns on a wild Midsummer’s Eve ride in the family’s vintage Volvo--is not all it’s cracked up to be. Even on the idyllic summery Baltic island of Gotland | ||
| Regarded today as one of Sweden’s leading authors, Margreta Garpe has created dramas with feminist themes for Stockholm’s Municipal Theater and has also been active as a film director. She has written film scripts, cabarets, songs, and monologues, has worked with translations and adaptations of drama classics, and has done reports and interviews. | ||
| In addition to staging her own plays, Ms. Garpe has also directed and adapted Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts and Hedda Gabler for Swedish television as well as the drama series “Skilda världar” ”(Separate Worlds) for Swedish TV’s Channel 4. Her drama All the Days, All the Nights was performed at Stockholm’s Royal Dramatic Theater in 1992, on Swedish television in 1996, at Copenhagen’s Royal Theater in 2002, and as a staged reading at Columbia’s Deutsches Haus in November 2002. Her most recent production in Stockholm is the play “Limbo,” premiering at Stockholm Municipal Theater on February 28, 2003. The original production of “Hanna’s Midsummer” presented under her own direction at the Royal Dramatic Theater’s Little Stage, premiered on April 19, 1997. | ||
| The play reading will be sponsored by the Swedish Program at Columbia University with the assistance of the American-Scandinavian Foundation. | ||
| The public is invited to both events, and admission is free. For information: telephone: 212-854-4015; E-mail: [email protected] | ||
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