Buresund started as boss of HT – itromso.no

Hålogaland theater director Inger Buresund was fired on Friday and resigned immediately.

Buresund is shocked by Friday's resignation.

"When I was summoned to a discussion meeting on Friday, I did not think, in my wildest imagination, that the board of directors would dismiss me." I associate a dismissal with abuses, of violence and such things, "Buresund told iTromsø.

The drama director reports a protracted conflict with director Beate Stang Aas, who decides to fire him.

– When I started playing HT, I thought that many things might change in the theater, but the changes were guided or ignored by the director. I think the President supported these changes before suddenly changing his mind this summer, she added, adding:

– In reality, the Hålogaland theater is guided by a model of leader to which the director and the director must be equal. The truth is that the theater director is the head of the daily society of the limited liability company. A similar leader model does not exist.

Buresund says that she asked the president to intervene in the conflict several times.

"Last summer, I might have set an ultimatum to the leadership: choose myself or the director," she says.

Buresund says that she would like to have continued as a theater director.

"It's great to work with so many good professionals and with a good audience, we've put on a lot of amazing shows, but the economy is arts-related and this conflict has been inextricable," she concluded. .

The former theater director brought his lawyer, Trond Skogly, to the meeting on Friday. They believe that Buresund was falsely dismissed and will bring the return of the Hålogaland Theater to court.

iTromsø has not received a reply to our requests to Beate Stang Aas, the director, or the Acid Leader, Renate Larsen.

"After a thorough process, we concluded that it was appropriate to terminate the cooperation with Inger Buresund. We are now eager to find good solutions for the interim period as we seek his successor, "writes Board Chair Renate Larsen in a press release sent out on Sunday.