Give Me A Happily Ever After | Norway

Playwright: Marius Leknes Snekkevag

Translator: Kyle Korynta

Director: Breahan Pautsch

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Synopsis: Welcome to Life! Fasten your seatbelts, it's gonna be a bumpy ride! Living is scary, will we be okay in the end?

Marius Leknes Snekkevåg has been active as a playwright since 2009. His plays have been performed all over Norway, including Rabinowitz (nominated for Performance of the year at the Hedda Awards in 2011), We Are the Voice of our People (2013), I Want to Wash the World Clean (2017), Traitor (2018) and Kim F. (2018). In 2013 We Are the Voice of our People was staged as a reading at Akvavit Theatre in Chicago directed by Wm. Bullion. We Are the Voice of Our People and I Love You, Let Me Go were performed as staged readings directed by Kathy Curtiss at Scandinavian American Theater Company in New York in 2016. In 2022 his stream of consciousness text You Should Have Held My Hand Poor Soul If Both My Hands Weren't So Full was published by Flamme Forlag. Marius Leknes Snekkevåg is represented by Nordiska ApS.

Kyle Korynta graduated with a BA in Norwegian and Studio Art from St. Olaf College and his MA and PhD from University of Washington, Seattle, in Scandinavian Languages and Literature. His research has focused on Norwegian drama and Nordic film. He has translated plays written by Norwegian playwrights Jon Fosse, Per Schreiner, and Marius Leknes Snekkevåg. He currently teaches Norwegian language courses and Nordic literature and film courses in English translation at the University of Minnesota.

Playwright Marius Leknes Snekkevag

Translator Kyle Korynta