Oslo

J. T. Rogers

• Verlag: Theatre Communications Group
• Jahr: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781559368766
• Thema: Literature
• Thema: American Drama

• World premiere at Lincoln Center Theater (Off-Broadway) in New York in the summer of 2016 to wide critical acclaim• Broadway production announced for Spring 2017• Selected as a Time Out New York and New York Times Critics' Pick• As a historical allegory, this play would make a useful text for academic studies in Drama, Political Science, or History, or those interested in the history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict• Rogers is best known for his works The Overwhelming, Madagascar, and Blood and Gifts • Rogers received the 2007 Otis Guernsey New Voices Playwriting Award for The Overwhelming • The Overwhelming was selected as a Top 10 Play of the Year by Time Magazine, Time Out New York and The Chicago Tribune • Madagascar received the American Theatre Critics Association's 2004 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award and the 2005 Pinter Review Prize for Drama• He was selected as one of ten playwrights in the United States to receive an NEA/TCG Theatre Residency for 2004–2005, and he was awarded playwriting fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2004 and 2008

OSLO

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Oslo was commissioned and given its world premiere in New York City by Lincoln Center Theater (André Bishop, Producing Artistic Director; Adam Siegel, Managing Director; Hattie K. Jutagir, Executive Director of Development and Planning). Performances began June 16, 2016, in the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. The production then transferred to Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, beginning performances on March 23, 2017. The director was Bartlett Sher; the sets were designed by Michael Yeargan, the costumes were designed by Catherine Zuber, the lighting was designed by Donald Holder, the sound was designed by Peter John Still, the projections were designed by 59 Productions; the stage manager was Cambra Overend. Throughout, the cast was as follows:

JOHAN JORGEN HOLST	T. Ryder Smith
JAN EGELAND	Daniel Jenkins
MONA JUUL	Jennifer Ehle
TERJE RØD-LARSEN	Jefferson Mays
MARIANNE HEIBERG	Henny Russell
TORIL GRANDAL	Henny Russell
FINN GRANDAL	T. Ryder Smith
THOR BJORNEVOG	Christopher McHale
TROND GUNDERSEN	Jeb Kreager
AHMED QURIE	Anthony Azizi
HASSAN ASFOUR	Dariush Kashani
SHIMON PERES	Daniel Oreskes
YOSSI BEILIN	Adam Dannheisser
URI SAVIR	Michael Aronov
JOEL SINGER	Joseph Siravo
YAIR HIRSCHFELD	Daniel Oreskes
RON PUNDAK	Daniel Jenkins
AMERICAN DIPLOMAT	Christopher McHale
GERMAN HUSBAND	Jeb Kreager
GERMAN WIFE	Angela Pierce
SWEDISH HOSTESS	Henny Russell

Other parts were played by members of the company.

CHARACTERS

The Norwegians

JOHAN JORGEN HOLST	Foreign Minister; married to Marianne Heiberg
JAN EGELAND	Deputy Foreign Minister
MONA JUUL	Official in the Foreign Ministry; reports to Jan Egeland; married to Terje Larsen
TERJE RØD-LARSEN	Director of the Fafo Institute for Applied Social Sciences; married to Mona Juul
MARIANNE HEIBERG	Executive with the Fafo Institute; works for Terje Larsen; married to Johan Jorgen Holst
TORIL GRANDAL	Housekeeper and cook at the Borregaard Estate outside Oslo; married to Finn
FINN GRANDAL	Groundsman at the Borregaard Estate outside Oslo; married to Toril
THOR BJORNEVOG	Senior officer with the Police Intelligence Service
TROND GUNDERSEN	Officer with the Police Intelligence Service

The Palestinians

AHMED QURIE	Finance Minister for the Palestine
(also known as “Abu Ala”)	Liberation Organization
HASSAN ASFOUR	Official PLO liaison with the Palestinian Delegation at multilateral US-sponsored talks

The Israelis

SHIMON PERES	Foreign Minister
YOSSI BEILIN	Deputy Foreign Minister
URI SAVIR	Director-General of the Foreign Ministry
JOEL SINGER	Legal advisor to the Foreign Ministry; senior law partner for a Washington, DC, firm
YAIR HIRSCHFELD	Senior Professor of Economics at the University of Haifa
RON PUNDAK	Junior Professor of Economics at the University of Haifa

Supporting Roles (played by members of the company)

AMERICAN DIPLOMAT

PALESTINIAN DIPLOMAT

ISRAELI DIPLOMAT

OTHER DIPLOMATS

DELEGATES

JOURNALISTS

PALESTINIAN CITIZENS

ISRAELI CITIZENS

WAITERS

AIRPORT PASSENGERS

GERMAN HUSBAND

GERMAN WIFE

SWEDISH HOSTESS

TIME AND PLACE

April 1992 to September 1993.

Oslo, Norway, and other locations around the world.

NOTES

The use of a slash ( / ) marks the point of overlapping dialogue.

Paragraph breaks mid-speech show where one thought ends and another commences.

Pronunciation should be culturally precise. Throughout, characters pronounce names and places from other countries as those from those other countries do. For example, the Norwegians, Israelis, and Palestinians all pronou...