We Come from Far, Far Away

Since the premiere in 2016, We Come from Far, Far Away has had over 400 performances in venues, festivals and schools in Norway, Czech Republic, Sweden, Australia, UK, Austria, Ireland, Slovenia, Denmark, Poland…

During 2025 we are going to play this performance in Czech Republic, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Norway.

The performance is played in English, Czech, Norwegian and German.

Inside the tent is a smaller tent, and in that smaller tent sits a young boy. He has come a long way, mostly on his own. He can show what he took with him, explain why he set out on the journey and he can describe where he travelled, but how his story will end, he cannot say…

The performance We Come from Far, Far Away tells a story about two young boys from Aleppo travelling across Europe to Norway. Against the backdrop of a journey through Turkey, Greece, Macedonia and onwards to Oslo, they tell stories about people, things and places, but also about life and death. Designed for younger audiences (10+) as well as adults, the performance about seeking refuge is performed inside a Mongolian yurt. Through live music, storytelling, clowning, shadow theatre and a small tent, NIE tells a big story from an intimate distance. The NIE Theatre ensemble created the project We Come from Far, Far Away in cooperation with the Norwegian refugee centre, Hvalstad Transittmottak. It served as the first reception point for young refugees (aged 13-18) who came to Norway without their parents, in hopes of asylum. The refugees they met were mostly from Syria and Afghanistan and had made their journey to Norway alone.

“I had a tent, I bought it in a supermarket in Greece, there was a sign which I could not read apart from that it said € 100 which was crossed out and then was written €40 in red! That’s called a bargain – so I took my money and I stood in the line. I tried to look normal. When I got to the desk I gave the man my money, he put it in the till and then he asked me something, I smiled, and then he started to shout at me, he shouted and shouted, so I took my phone out and started to film him…..”

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