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This chapter explores theatrical approaches to the Norwegian terror attacks of July 22, 2011, by focusing on the intersection of medium specificity, spatial politics, and the contested cultural memory processes in the public sphere. Institutional theaters in Norway only hesitantly approached the issue during the first years after the attacks, by dealing with July 22 merely indirectly or implicitly. The article traces and discusses these early theatrical approaches before zooming in to the first performance produced by a Norwegian institutional theater that explicitly dealt with July 22: Ein av oss/Einer von uns (Ulfsby, 2019). By analyzing the dramaturgical and aesthetic strategies of this production through the lens of transnational memory perspectives, the article provides a close reading of the performance as a multidirectional mnemonic laboratory that aims at creating space for embodied criticality within the intra-national collective memory processes.

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Theatrical Approaches to July 22: The Use (and Non-use) of Spaces and Institutions

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    2025年

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  • Siemke Böhnisch

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This chapter explores theatrical approaches to the Norwegian terror attacks of July 22, 2011, by focusing on the intersection of medium specificity, spatial politics, and the contested cultural memory processes in the public sphere. Institutional theaters in Norway only hesitantly approached the issue during the first years after the attacks, by dealing with July 22 merely indirectly or implicitly. The article traces and discusses these early theatrical approaches before zooming in to the first performance produced by a Norwegian institutional theater that explicitly dealt with July 22: Ein av oss/Einer von uns (Ulfsby, 2019). By analyzing the dramaturgical and aesthetic strategies of this production through the lens of transnational memory perspectives, the article provides a close reading of the performance as a multidirectional mnemonic laboratory that aims at creating space for embodied criticality within the intra-national collective memory processes.