Community Play

The vision with 'Life on loan' is to create a Citizen Theatre Play that gives voice to a group of people who is rarely heard: "The elderly".

Loneliness and insecure social relationships increase with age and in an almost hyper-individualized society, the experience of emptiness can feel even more monumental for a generation that grew [...]

In the intimate "BlackBox" theater room, the young people get very close when, almost in tears and frustration, they express themselves verbally and through choreographed and musical scenes that [...]

Here you will meet 11 very young people who, for the first time, in raw honesty, tell their own stories.

Brigitte Christensen, who has developed the Community Play method over three decades, is in charge of the concept and stage direction of 'The sound of us'.

The Will to Fight for Love is More Important Than Cultural Differences. Nikola and Brigitte are cultural nomads both in love and in working life. Their experience of commuting between cultures [...]

"The theatre that is capable to reveal potential in every one of us" - At the European Capital of Culture Forum - Kaunas 2022, cinema and theatre actress and director Brigitte Christensen, and [...]

The stories become very near on Tuesday and Wednesday when a new play will premiere on EUTOPIA Stage. The play holds the name "Somali Memoirs"

"Art can do things that nothing else can. Art can build bridges across cultures and art can encourage understanding. Therefore, it is important that art gets about in all areas."

When Eutopia Stage in Gellerup next week invites us in for the play Somali Memoirs, the full cast will have their debut as actors. They all have Somali roots and have agreed to participate in [...]

Seven Danish-Somali stories of beauty, sorrow, missing and joy are used to build bridges between people and worlds who rarely would meet. This takes place at Eutopia Stage in Gellerup where the [...]

Feature of MØRKHED in TV news on DR1, Saturday, June 4th.

The performance MØRKHED gathers 20 different women and a little girl in a story that brings us closer to each other. The play is part of the urban development project EUTOPIA 2017...

People with different backgrounds can find community in the performance MØRKHED. The play, which is a project of Aarhus as European Capital of Culture, played over the weekend in Aarhus suburb [...]

EUTOPIA 2017 made a good start with the performance MØRKHED which was the second arrangement of a various number of performances and events before and during the Capital of Culture 2017...

The summer sun shone outside on Saturday night when EUTOPIA Stage in Gellerup premiered at the performance MØRKHED. The performers are 20 women from around Aarhus. The show took diversity under [...]

Feature of MØRKHED with artistic director Brigitte Christensen at P4 Østjylland Weekend, June 4th.

20 women from Aarhus with backgrounds from 12 different countries and age spread from 19 to 66 years and one little girl of six years, have since the beginning of April turned up at EUTOPIA Stage [...]

Review on the performance MØRKHED, where 20 women and one girl from Aarhus was on the stage. A little girl puts a big dollhouse on a stage among crumpled newspaper and gray dust. Shortly [...]

11 different cultures meet on stage in Gellerup when EUTOPIA presents the community play, MØRKHED...

Feature of MØRKHED with artistic director Brigitte Christensen and participator Samah Al-Jaal on P1 Eftermiddag May 27th.

June 4th is the premiere of community play Mørkhed, at EUTOPIA Stage, the former Gellerupscenen...

A large group of women of all ages and from all parts of Aarhus, met on Saturday at the briefing on the upcoming EUTOPIA community play. It took place at EUTOPIA Stage - the former Gellerupscenen...