Nobody Meets Anybody goes to the Faroe Islands

We took Nobody Meets Anybody (Enginn hittir einhvern) on tour to the Faroe Islands in early September, and Sif Gunnarsdóttir, director of the Nordic House in Tórshavn, challenged us to learn the play in Faroese. In a moment of madness we accepted – fairly tricky for me even though I speak the language, but an ordeal for Björn Ingi, who doesn’t speak a word of it.

We asked the Faroese actors Katarina Nolsoy and Hans Tórgarð to record the play, and we had their voices in our ears all summer. It worked, and it turned out to be incredibly rewarding and fun. The Faroese audiences really took to Asmussen, threw themselves into the production, and both wept and laughed.