Over the years, Peer Gynt at Gålåvannet has been a great theater experience for many people. The summer of 2024 will be no exception - between August 1 and 10, Peer Gynt will be performed nine times.
The Peer Gynt initiative in Gudbrandsdalen has existed in various forms and with different names since 1928. Since 1989, Peer Gynt has been performed at Gålåvannet and has so far been visited by more than 400,000 people. This year's production features Mads Ousdal in the role of Peer Gynt, and the Norwegian Theatre's soon-to-retire director Erik Ulfsby is the director. He will take over as artistic director of the Peer Gynt Cultural Festival from Ellen Horn from next year.
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The historical Peer Gynt
The historical Peer Gynt is said to have lived in the 18th century and was called Per Olsson Hågå. He came from the old farm Hågå in the valley slope east of Vinstra in Gudbrandsdalen, and after him there is a rich local storytelling tradition. The stories of Per Gynt are captured and retold in Peder Chr. Asbjørnsen's collections of fairy tales and folk legends. Henrik Ibsen was familiar with these stories and traveled through Gudbrandsdalen in the summer of 1862 in search of fairy tales and legends. Paul Botten-Hansen's Huldrebryllup also provided material for Henrik Ibsen's Peer.
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