Angereds Teater is a theater and actors workshop located at Kulturhuset Blå Stället in the

Angered Angered ( ) is a Boroughs and districts of Gothenburg, borough of Gothenburg Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. Angered is the biggest Million Programme area in Gothenburg, and one of the biggest in the country, with 60,000 inha ...

suburb of

Gothenburg Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gub ...

, Sweden. Angereds Teater is a center of culture for the area, offers plays for both adults and children and hosting a number of plays and other events throughout the year. Angereds Theater was founded in 1978 and was part of

Gothenburg City Theatre Gothenburg City Theatre () opened in 1934 at Götaplatsen square in Gothenburg, Sweden. The theatre was designed by Swedish architect Carl Bergsten who gave the exterior a Neoclassical architecture, Neo-Classical look with a touch of Streamline ...

until 1996. The theatre is part of Sweden's tradition of plays and other events especially for children, with a number of theatre and other artistic groups dedicated to this purpose. The theatre also offers Angereds Teaterskola featuring workshops for children with the aim of giving them an appreciation of the art. Angereds Teater appeared as part of the

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in Mexico in 2011 as part of latter's programming for children. The theatre company presented "The Butterfly Pilots" (''Fjärilspiloterna''), a play is a story about loneliness and friendship, sudden falls and happy new beginnings to show that new friends appear when old ones go away. The play was presented at the theatre in Gothenburg for over a year, with previous tours in

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. The play has extravagant scenery and in some parts, the audience can dance. The main performers of the play were Phax Said Cheik Ahamada, who has created a unique technique of

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and Ami Skanberg Dahlstedt, who is known for combining dance styles from around the world into her work.

References

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