ABSTRACT
The author argues that everything began in Oslo with five young people between the ages of nineteen and twenty and a young director, Eugenio Barba, who wanted to create his own theatre group and who began to transmit to them the physical and vocal training that he had seen in the theatre of Jerzy Grotowski. Every day, after the work led by Eugenio, they took it in turns to lead sessions and exchange their abilities. In 1966, after a performance in Viborg, Odin Teatret received an offer of board and lodging from the Danish town of Holstebro which wanted to change its commercial image to that of a centre of cultural life. Eugenio Barba and his actors, who had no prospects of subsidies in Norway, accepted the offer. During the first twelve years of the group's life the basics of training were taught by Eugenio Barba and the more experienced actors: Torgeir, Else Marie and Iben.
