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  • The theatre company Scenekraft

    The theatre company Scenekraft

    Scenekraft was officially established in 2009, and became the first independent, professional theatre company in Haugesund. Scenekraft consists of three actors (Elsa Aanensen, Nina Sele and Knut Gjelle Angell) and two musicians (Halvor Lillesund and Vegard Fossum), all based in Haugesund. We are educated within acting and music, some of us abroad, and some of [...]

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  • Rabinowitz

    Rabinowitz

    RABINOWITZ – THE MERCHANT OF HAUGESUND This spring the theatre company Scenekraft marks the anniversary of Moritz Rabinowitz, a jewish businessman and important intellectual. Rabinowitz lived and built his business in Haugesund from 1911 till he was captured by the Nazis in 1940. Scenekraft’s new play tells the story of the poor, Polish teenager who [...]

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  • The Ocean Owns Me

    The Ocean Owns Me

    “The Ocean Owns Me” was Scenekraft’s first own play, telling the story of the last wave of emigrants from Norway to America. The largest group of migrants in Norwegian history were young men from postwar Karmøy. Most of them ended up in the American fishery. There are many parallels to Karmøy’s migration history, and many [...]

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