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Within the Walls, Drama
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 September 2025 | ||||||
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One of Danish drama’s great classics in a star-studded new production at the Old Stage
Within the Walls is the story of what it means to belong and to be forced to surrender everything that binds one’s world together.
Despite pressures from the outside world, peace and unity reign within the home of the Jewish Levin family. Everything is as it should be until their young daughter, Esther, falls in love with her Christian teacher, Jørgen Herming, whose father years ago refused to help the Levin family with a loan, simply because they were Jewish. Past animosities are rekindled and the struggle for love and change begins. The father, Adolf Levin, opposes the marriage, but agrees to meet Herming at a dinner where the showdown will take place.
Can the families accommodate the upheaval of change, or will hatred prevail over hope for a better world? Henri Nathansen’s classic is not without reason one of the most-staged Danish dramas. Within the Walls premiered at the Royal Danish Theatre’s Old Stage in 1912 – the very same stage on which the drama is set to unfold yet again.
Don’t miss this star-studded classic with Bodil Jørgensen and Jens Albinus as the Levin couple and Lars Brygman and Stine Stengade as Mr. and Mrs. Herming.
Within the Walls is performed in Danish.
Program and cast
Expected duration: 3 hour(s) incl. 1 interval
Playwright: Henri Nathansen
Director: Morten Kirkskov
Set- and Costume Design: Steffen Aarfing
Lighting Design: Ulrik Gad
Sound Design: Mogens Laursen Hastrup
Choreography: Sofie Akerø
Cast - Subject to change
Adolf Levin: Jens Albinus
Sara Levin: Bodil Jørgensen
Esther Levin: Emilie Kroyer Koppel
Jørgen Herming: Joachim Kubel
Councillor Herming: Lars Brygmann
Councillor Herming: Stine Stengade
Hugo Levin: Emil Prenter
Jakob Levin: Zaki Nobel
Dina Levin: Jela Natius Abildgaard
Meyer: Nicolai Dahl Hamilton
Little Sara: Livia Teodora Lupu
Little Sara: Frederikke Kofoed Heiberg
Housekeeper at the Levins: Lene Strate
Waiter at the Hermings: Jakob Haahr Andersen
The Royal Danish Theatre Old Stage
The Royal Danish Theatre (RDT, Danish: Det Kongelige Teater) is both the national Danish performing arts institution and a name used to refer to its old purpose-built venue from 1874 located on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen. The theatre was founded in 1748, first serving as the theatre of the king, and then as the theatre of the country. The theatre presents opera, the Royal Danish Ballet, classical music concerts (by the Royal Danish Orchestra, which dates back to 1448), pop stars, and drama in several locations.
The Royal Danish Theatre organization is under the control of the Danish Ministry of Culture, and its objectives are to ensure the staging of outstanding performances that do justice to the various stages which it controls.
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