It is our ambition that our range of performances can be recognized by their unique artistic profile.

We try to find complexity and sophistication in simplicity, and thus create unpredictable experiences with a few and simple means.

"The journeys" towards the performances, on the other hand, are never simple. Teatret Gruppe 38 consciously chooses not to use the language, the form or the solution, which seem most obvious in order to make it necessary to examine and re-examine possibilities, which we weren't able to reach beforehand. We trip ourselves up, so to speak, during the entire process. We choose collaborators, who work quite differently and have an entirely different approach to the theatre than we do, in order to reach an immediate peculiar expression, which seem, when delivered, quite obvious to the audience as well as to ourselves. All this to sharpen the ability to imagine, and the desire to change something apparently unchangeable.

The basis of an idea is often an ultra short tale or narrative, where life itself is at stake. If a story is short and if it is good, it is already compressed in its idea and can give us room for errands on the way, in order for our watermark to be evident in the delivery.

It is wonderful to become fascinated with a story and then force yourself to pass on the story as well as the fascination while realizing what the fascination consists of - where is the fragile point in us, where this particular story creeps in and insists on realization, change ...or just (e)motion?

At the same time it is crucial for us that life itself is at stake - in spite of the fact that our audience are mostly children - or perhaps exactly for that reason. We do not insert extenuating circumstances to spare the children. A story can be as cruel, as highly dangerous and infinitely sad as it lays claim to, in order to convey the strongest emotional experience. After all, reality is highly dangerous.

Artist´s quotation by Bodil Alling

"Withanhour´scompressedimageofrealityI wanttogive a moment of clarity inthechaostheaudiencewalksoutinto
whentheyleavetheperformance.

At the moment I want to stimulate the ability to imagine. To get the audience and me to imagine things, which we didn´t imagine we could imagine.

In a little while, well, I´ll probably be occupied with something else."