Paper theatre is brought back to life in this Christmas story, performed for an audience equipped with theatre binoculars. It is entertainment from before the screens took over, presented by model theatre specialist and enthusiast Per Høyer.
The play takes the audience on a light-hearted trip to the idyllic Nøddebo Parsonage around Christmastime, where colourful characters and their quirky stories bring plenty of laughter, for both children and adults. After the performance there is a chance to take a peek behind the scenes of the minimalist production.
Per Høyer wrote the play partly to give a modern, younger audience a chance to fall for the romantic nostalgia of a Christmas that is more imagined than real. The story was already a piece of Danish cultural heritage, having been staged at Folketeatret over 2,000 times after Elith Reumert adapted Scharling's novel in 1880.
