"If you find this performance coming to a venue near you in the future, kill for a ticket." –British Theatre Guide

"Painful truths in brilliant nonsense... We in the audience may laugh hysterically at the antics of four men caught in the grip of an unseen yet unrelenting bureaucracy, but at the same time we can’t escape their pain..." (Sunday Morning Herald, Australia)

In The Department, Strømgren creates the innermost and secret office of an imaginary government, where agents analyze and scrutinize society through peepholes, doors have long ago been sealed off for extreme secrecy, and mysterious orders arrive from above. The brilliant mix of theatre, stylized movement, and invented language carries the audience from hilarity to moments of shocked recognition-of their own entrapment in work, routine, relationships...life.

Just 10 years old, this Norwegian dance-theatre company has toured extensively throughout Europe and major international festivals, astonishing, perplexing and delighting audiences in 45 countries. Strømgren's signature mixture of dance and theatre, always colored with a distinct, absurd humor, treats existential settings/scenes from religion to office politics.

* Learn more about this innovative company's work in post-performance talkbacks after each performance.