Starting new work at BAC

Today was the first of a few days of development work at BAC in London. We were starting work on our new Christmas show based on Hansel and Gretel. It's a bit weirs to start working on a 'Christmas Show' in April but this is just the first workshop stage. The finished show will be on at the Junction in Cambridge in December of this year.

We have just started working on some ideas and messing around a bit. We spent a lot of time talking about the story and what it means and how nasty it is...
We also spent some time just playing around with some games and costumes. I have worked with Carly and Unai before but this is the first time that Steffi has worked for NIE - she was very very funny today.

Unai found out that the floor was not that clean.

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...