The Wolf Road
(Stories from Norse mythology)
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Gate Theatre, Notting hill, December, 1998 – January, 1999
| Ragnarok, the battle at the end of the world is fast approaching, but gods and giants are too engrossed in turmoil and feuds to notice. Freyja, the most sensual goddess, offers herself to four dwarves in exchange for a gold necklace. Thor, god of thunder, strives to regain his stolen hammer. Loki, a shape changing trickster is only momentarily stopped from causing mayhem when his lips are sewn together, and Fenrir the wolf struggles to free himself and wreak havoc on the Gods.
This production was inspired by: the ‘Poetic Edda’ written in the thirteenth century by Snorri Sturlason based on oral tales brought to Iceland by Vikings; the penguin book of Norse Myths by Kevin Crossley Holland.
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