The story of the establishment of the Norwegian Odin Teatret in the Danish town of Holstebro is not only significant in itself. In fact, it shows that Barba's theatre, with the help of partners such as Chr. Ludvigsen, was able to impose avantgarde cultural notions even at those legislative levels which usually endorse certain basic categories of an era and of a culture. The achievements of the group are clearly a consequence of its spirit of initiative but, most of all, of its strategic ab...