NEWS

05. október 2009
 As Iceland "celebrates" its first anniversary of THE BIG CRASH, HH opens an art exhibition titled "The Icelandic Expansion 2009" - a sarcastic title, since "The Icelandic Expansion" (Icelandic business-viking-raids on foreign shores) came to a shrieking halt one year ago. The show features a series of photographs shot last January in an unnamed country in southern Africa, showing a once invincible, now desperate Icelandic "business-viking" wandering around the poor third world suburbs, sleeping on the beach and begging in the street. Show is at The Contemporary Art Gallery, Skólavörðustígur 3, 101 Reykjavik, 7-20 October 2009.
01. október 2009
HH was invited to be among the speakers at the opening ceremony of the art festival in Bergen Norway last May, a black tie event held at the big and festive Grieghallen, with the king and queen of Norway up front. HH's speech focused on the current crisis in Iceland and the relations between the two countries. It was recorded by Norwegian Televison, NRK, and is now available on youtube.com.

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Rómeó og Júlía (2002)

Commissioned by Gísli Garðarsson of the Vesturport theatre group to do a new translation of the famous play by Shakespeare, Hallgrimur couldn’t resist and worked on it for the first four months of 2002. It was to be the third Icelandic translation of Romeo and Juliet. The reverend Matthías Jochumsson did the first one in the 19th century, and Helgi Hálfdánarson the second one, in the 20th century.

The Vesturport production premiered in the fall of 2002. It was a spectacular show of love and acrobatics and became the most popular Shakespeare production in Icelandic theatre history. It later traveled to The Young Vic Theatre in London and has been shown at various theatre festivals.

The translation was generally welcomed by theatre people but literary man Hermann Stefánsson wrote a scathing review about it, getting him into a short but swift debate with theatre man Benedikt Erlingsson on the web-mag kistan.is.


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Hermann Stefánsson A


Hermann Stefánsson B


Hermann Stefánsson C


Benedikt Erlingsson A


Benedikt Erlingsson B


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