ABSTRACT
The American playwright Deborah Bailey Brevoort has explained it in a newsletter, based on her experience on a study tour of Danish theatre in summer 1998. The debate was concrete, indeed, but it illustrated first and foremost the key issue: the fundamental identity crisis of our modern stage society. Denmark is certainly a dramatic nation, both in these arguments and when it comes to the real stuff that is the more serious plays, which have dominated the repertoire throughout the nineties and not least in the last two seasons. Particularly not comparing ourselves with the political statements made on the foreign scene, for example the social and sexual rebellion among the young British dramatists most are familiar with Mark Ravenhill's Shopping and Fucking, performed all over Europe and in Denmark as well in the season 1998-99. The future must show whether Denmark is also able to produce playwrights of world calibre.
