The National Stage
Art Nouveau playhouse from 1909, home of the country's oldest permanent theatre company.
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This guide to the National Stage in Bergen starts with a single line of dialogue about six cases of rare whisky, spoken on this stage in the spring of nineteen thirty-five. It follows playwright Nordahl Grieg and director Hans Jacob Nilsen into a city grown rich on wartime shipping, and a theatre board with interests of its own. Best heard across the square, facing the curving Art Nouveau front.
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