English

BaggårdTeatret: Literally ”The Backyard Theatre”, our name has connotations of tenement building courtyards, slums, or rickety sheds and garages.

BaggårdTeatret conceives and presents contemporary works for the stage drawing on stories from our own little world, but aimed at the world in general. Our motto is BE MOVED. We want to move our audiences while making sure our productions have the potential to transform contemporary society.

BaggårdTeatret has been going for more than half a century and its tours have taken in Denmark and many other corners of the globe.

Awards and accolades (in the last few years)
2017: Nominated for the Reumert Jury Spezial Award
2016: Recipient of the Den Fynske Kulturpris: CARL. The Theatre Concert
2016: Nominated for the Fynske Kulturpris: CARL. The Theatre Concert
2015: Recipient of the Reumert Jury Talent Prize: dramatist Henrik Szklany for his play 839 Days
2015: Recipient of the Svendborg Kulturpris: theatre director Jakob Bjerregaard Engmann
2014: Recipient of the Den Fynske Kulturpris: The Prime Minister, a play for children, in coproduction with Teater Quasi
2012: Recipient of the Reumert Jury Talent Prize: dramatist Julie Maj Jakobsen for her play The Village Hall

Please contact us for further information by mail: post@baggaardteatret.dk
or phone +45 62 21 40 43. Tour Manager Anneline Köhler Juul anneline@baggaardteatret.dk +4528579768

1. marts 2017 - 31. december 2019

Bertolt Brechts Svendborg Poems

In the gloomy times Will people also sing? Indeed they will sing. Of the gloomy times. – Bertolt Brecht Does peace give way to war just as surely as winter gives way to spring? A poet has fled from burning books, censorship and [...]

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1. juli 2018 - 30. juni 2020

Knud Romers ABC – English

a musical dance alphabet Staged by Sofie Christiansen Your senses will hop, skip and jump as you enjoy this artful, educational alphabet safari based on Knud Romer’s poetic alphabetical fables and the letters jumble into fascinating [...]

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11. oktober 2019 - 30. september 2022

Sundets Stilhed

Sundets Stilhed havde verdenspremiere fredag den 11. oktober, men ikke i en teatersal. Forestillingen kan derimod opleves på en 6 km lang gåtur fra Maritimt Center på havnen i Svendborg til Brechts Hus – via App’en [...]

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BaggårdTeatret

In 2007 BaggårdTeatret was officially adopted as the Municipality of Svendborg’s local theatre with regional status: this means that in addition to our own productions we work with other theatre companies and groups in the area, covering the performing arts in general. We also run the municipality school theatre scheme which brings forty per cent of Svendborg’s school children to performances every year, and we collaborate with a whole range of other local partners.

BaggårdTeatret has a dedicated audience to whom we also present the best guest productions; as well as shows perhaps more suitable for grown-ups these include special productions aimed at younger audiences. Our theatre and its management enjoy an idyllic location known as “The Rat Trap”, a one-hundred-and-thirty-year-old summer theatre out in the woods.

BaggårdTeatret is supported by the Municipality of Svendborg, the National Council for the Arts, and various private trusts and foundations.

Artistic Director Jakob Bjerregaard Engmann