Riksteatret: Kniven i ilden / Terä tulessa

Forbidden love, sizzling Arctic sea fishing and healing hands.
Ingeborg Arvola's captivating historical novel has gone straight to the hearts of a record-breaking audience. The book has received fantastic reviews and has sold 60,000 copies. Finally, the book becomes a theater!

The year is 1859. Brita Caisa is alone with two children. To give her children the security they deserve, she straps on her skis and walks the long way from Finland to Norway to find a man she can have a safe life with. Along the way, things happen that shouldn't happen.
Brita Caisa is a woman who leaves, a woman who dares to stand up to the condemnation of others. The Knife in the Fire is a captivating story about work and love, strong unity and free eroticism, the individual and the authorities.

 
Arvola's own great-great-great-grandmother
Brita Caisa Seipajærvi was Ingeborg Arvola's great-great-great-grandmother. Arvola writes so that one can smell the blood after the reindeer slaughter, taste the mullet, feel the cold from the snow and the warmth from the fire. Arvola also highlights the Kven and Sami culture and gives us a unique picture of a history that should have a greater place in our collective memory.
When the book becomes theater for the whole country with Riksteatret and Kväänitatteri, star director Cecilie Mosli (Grey's Anatomy, Three Nuts for Cinderella, The Snow Queen) brings Arvola's grand epic to the stage with Lena Kristin Ellingsen, Ivar Beddari, Ingvild Holthe Bygdnes, Arthur Hakalahti, Bernt Bjørn and Pernille Sandøy in the roles.

On stage:
Lena Kristin Ellingsen, Ida Løken Valkeapää , Pernille Sandøy, Ivar Beddari, Bernt Bjørn and Arthur Hakalahti

Team
Director: Cecilie Mosli
Costume designer and scenographer: Milja Salovaara
Lighting designer: Martin Myrvold
Composer: Arve Henriksen
Musical director: Ida Flåten Kampenhaug
Dramaturg: Siri Løkholm Ramberg
Producer: Silje Vigerust Vinjar

By Ingeborg Arvola. Dramatized by Cecilie Mosli

Ticket prices:
Ordinary: 510
Honors: 413
Groups (10 people or more): 413
Under 30 years: 200

Said about the novel:

"Wonderful and magnificent"
VG (6)

"It's been a long time since I've read about the equivalent of hot lovemaking – and equally steamy lovemaking – in a Norwegian novel."
NRK

"A captivating and historically interesting novel (…) Can be read in one greedy gulp"
Dagbladet (5)

"Overall, Arvola writes really, really well. Insanely well, actually. Like a dream you didn't know you were walking around with."
Berlingske (5)

"With an almost invisible hand, Arvola sneaks in details about time, place and environment, which make the reader considerably wiser than they were before"
The Norwegian newspaper

"Love and sex of the forbidden kind, marriages that break up, parents and children that split up, the economy that cracks, a local community that gets something to gossip about [...] above all, it is the forbidden attraction and love between Brita Caisa and the married Askan Mikko that drives the story."
The class struggle