Two Awards for NIE!

On the 5th April, our show Everything Falls Apart/Kollaps won the award for Best Production in Schools Touring in Norway 2011. The prize is 100.000 NOK and the award was presented to Kjell and Iva Moberg, NIE's Associate Directors, by the Norwegian Culture Minister at a special ceremony. The prize money will be spent on educational development projects, carried out by members of NIE’s ensemble over the next few years. Everything Falls Apart/Kollaps will be presented during the NIE Festival Vol.II in Dramatikkens hus in Oslo on the 13th May 2011

And then...

On the 6th April, the Norwegian Association for Performing Arts (DTS) announced that NIE will receive the Artistic Bravery award during their Annual Assembly on the 29 April. To celebrate this, My Life with the Dogs will be presented at Oslo´s brand new theatre Det Andre Teater also on the 29th April.

We are really pleased to confirm we are part of Arts Council England's new National Portfolio, securing our funding in the UK until 2015. Thank you to all our supporters.

It is a challenging time ahead, and we wait for news today from our UK friends and partners. A day spent checking twitter/ blogs and newsfeeds...

More from the UK Tour

This month we have been in Cambridge, in Colchester on the lovely campus of Essex University and Oxford at the excellent North Wall Arts Centre. The weather was great and we sat outside the Junction for lunch and decided that spring had sprung. Four of the cast had come over from Scandinavia so 15 degrees and sunshine was a very pleasant surprise for them.

This is the start of the show in Cambridge - it was a full house and the foyer was very crowded. Margit and Jirka played music and Liz served Aquavit (but not the 6th form students)

We used a bit of time in Cambridge (as we were there for two days) to take some more pictures of the show - thanks Jirka (and Elke) for this one. It shows Captain Mathiasen suffering terrible visions out at sea.

We also did a bit of rehearsing and some more messing around with languages.

On Monday Margit had a splinter in her foot - luckily Jirka can fix anything.... except the financial crisis.

Thanks to everyone who came to see the show in in the UK - we had a great time and kept on working and developing the show.

From Alex Byrne - NIE's Artistic Director.