ABSTRACT
In order to better understand the documents preserved at the Odin Teatret one has to take into account its peculiarities. The Odin Teatret was founded on 1 October 1964 in Oslo by Eugenio Barba with Else Marie Laukvik (who to this day still works at the Odin Teatret), Torgeir Wethal (who worked at the Odin Teatret until his death in 2010) and two other young Norwegian actors; one of them, During the time in Oslo, the Odin Teatret was a non-funded theatre (proclaiming itself as amateur); it used various rented rooms to hold workshops in, among which the most important would be an air raid shelter. In June of 1966, the Odin Teatret left Oslo and moved to Denmark, to Holstebro where it still resides. The life of the Odin Teatret was increasingly marked by its cosmopolitan dimension and by its links with "different" theatres and theatre-makers from all over the world.
