The production was shown in Silamiut’s black box from the 17th to the 19th and on the 23rd of February 2006, as well as in Katuaq on the 31st of March, 1st of April and the 2nd of April.

Makka Kleist wrote the Eskimo Stories for the festival plays in Northern Norway in 2000, where she was a festival play artist. Later the play has been presented in Norwegian in Northern Norway and in English in Toronto, Canada.

Eskimo Stories is a satirical, humoristic and serious review of the Greenlanders history, from (?starting with?) the “long march” from Mongolia until today.

Through stories, sketches and poems – at times in cabaret style – the two actors take us through joy and sorrow in the windy path towards the Kalaallit Nunaat of today.

A rich pictorial material, music and sound setting of both modern and classic sound artists, makes this “history class” both different and entertaining.

We can mention the first meeting between an “indian” and a inuk, Hans Egedes attempt to explain the garden of Eden, the way of thinking during the colonial rule, the implementation of the Home Rule Government, and the IT and hunting society of today.


The scenic material in the production is suitable for a different type of Greenlandic history lesson. The oldest grades of grade school, high school, the teachers college, najukkami ilinniarfik, tusagassiortut ilinniarfiat (school of journalism) and the university will benefit from the hour long passage through our history.

Sponsorer:

Vi takker Nuna Fonden, KIIP - Grønlands Hjemmestyre og Inuuneq nakuuneq for at støtte forestillingen økonomisk.

samt Vivi Sørensen, Naduk Ravn Jakobsen, Mira Jo Kleist, Jørgen Malmgreen, Peter Rasmussen, Ruth Montgomery, Ice Media, Nuuk FM, Dora Thomsen, Manasse Berthelsen, Tida Ravn og Bolethe Papis (Dabada).