Christmas at Wøyen

Co-production with Teater Uttafor
World premiere: 2nd of December, 2019
Playing dates: 4th, 5th, 12th, 13th and 14th of December
Collaboration: Wøyen gård
Duration: 50 minutes

CHRISTMAS AT WØYEN is a play for the whole family, and was performed at Wøyen Gård in December 2019. The play is a continuation of the play «Kampen om Wøyengutta» written by Christin Grillstad Prøis, and Christmas stories written by Director Hermanrud in the 1950’s. We will be revisiting characters and music from the summer-play which had amazing reviews from newspapers, the audience and former children of the orphanage.

The year is 1950 and it is Christmas Eve at Wøyen Boys´home in Bærum. Children and adults alike are preparing for the big day, but strange things are beginning to happen. Is there someone the farm trying to sabotage the Christmas celebrations? Who can it be, and how will the boys save Christmas?

In the middle of the Christmas chaos, a boy is waiting to come home for Christmas. A wait that may turn out to be very long. CHRISTMAS AT WØYEN is on the one side a Christmas-mystery, and on the other a story of exclusion and loneliness during Christmas. For many of us, Christmas is a time spent with our families, a time where a mother, a father, a sister or a brother maybe feels extra important to have. But the reminder of not having a mother or father close by, or not at all, may have become even stronger for these orphan boys.

This is a fun, exciting and moving story about the boys and people on Wøyen farm Christmas in 1950. It also provides happy reunions with famous characters and songs, but you do not have to have seen the summer show to see this.