Production : THE PLAYBOY OF UTSJOK
(The playboy of the Western world) 

by John M Synge, adapted by Morten Traavik 

Year: 2005 

Place: Beaivvas Sami Teather,
Guovdageaidnu, Norway  

adaptedt and directed by Morten Traavik

Premiere at Beaivvas Saami National Theatre, Kautokeino,
Norway/Sápmi January 27, 2005

“John M. Synge’s classic “The Playboy of the Western world”
is resurrected as juicy and self-ironic Saami comedy. In Morten Traavik’s staging, 
the confrontation between the locals and the intruder as described by Synge
is being used as a springboard for showing us an everything but culturally
homogenous contemporary environment.”

Klassekampen, Oslo, Norway

Photos:
Marit Anna Evanger