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This chapter explores a theatre mediation research project in the city of Bergen, Norway. It is an outreach project for grade 10 students, aiming at opening the doors to theatre for young people, involving Western Norway University of Applied Sciences in a collaborative venture with the city theatre: Den Nationale Scene, and two other partner institutions. The students were invited during school hours to see a play, Anne Pedersdotter (1908), by the Norwegian dramatist Hans Wiers-Jenssen (1866–1925), based on a witch trial in Bergen in 1590. The authors devised teaching materials and preparatory practical workshops for students, and researched the facilitation of and the responses to the introductory workshops. Following a brief tuning in to the overall project, the chapter first applies a topological reading of parts of the material. Secondly, it takes a quantitative perspective, before the chapter is rounded off.
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The dramaturge at Den Nationale Scene, Anders Hasmo Dahl, reworked Wiers-Jenssen’s script, and Leif Stinnerbom directed the performance. It opened the 23rd of March 2015.
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The Cultural Rucksack is a government funded culture dissemination programme, administered through regional offices (counties and municipalities), to bring the arts into schools or the students into art buildings. All Norwegian students, from age 6 to 18, will experience at least one encounter with a professional art production each year throughout their schooling.
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The first project was in 1989. Kari Mjaaland Heggstad and Stig A. Eriksson created a number of workshops in cooperation with the DNS. Reports and articles of the work have been published in Norway and abroad (1994, 1999, 2007, 2011). Katrine Heggstad picked up on this approach from 1996. During the years 2014–2016 Heggstad, Heggstad and Eriksson have made four education packages together for these productions: Medealand by Sara Stridsberg, Waffle Hearts by Maria Parr, Anne Pedersdotter by Hans Wiers-Jenssen and The Nether by Jennifer Haley.
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Topological analysis is inspired by New-rhetoric theory, which is influenced by philosophers like Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Jaques Derrida and Walter Benjamin (Nyrnes 2007: 10).
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QuestBack is a person-based digital feedback platform headquartered in Oslo, Norway. Senior consultant, Dag Ove Vareberg, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, helped designing the questionnaire.
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Heggstad, K., Heggstad, K.M., Eriksson, S.A. (2019). Visiting Schools for Visiting Theatre. Researching a Drama Workshop and Young People’s Response. In: Finneran, M., Anderson, M. (eds) Education and Theatres. Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education, vol 27. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22223-9_15
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