Att döda ett tivoli (Killing a Fairground)
Backa Teater, Göteborgs stadsteater
June 4th 2pm
June 5th 2pm
Backateatern, Gothenburg
The jury’s motivation: Backa Teater’s bold project 3 x Crime and Punishment brings a sense of freshness and urgency to the idea of contemporary theatre. With their three productions, Dumstrut (Dunce Cap), Att döda en Tivoli (To Kill a Carnival) and Brott och straff (Crime and Punishment) they have solidly placed Dostoyevsky’s classic questions of life and morality in our own times. The set design, common to all three productions, turns the old factory into a classical arena for existential discourse, giving gravity and play equal status as elements of expression. From the playground to the courtroom we confront, on concrete and philosophical levels, the questions of crime, punishment, social exclusion, responsibility, atonement and forgiveness. Good and Evil. 3 x Brott och straff challenges us, crosses all age barriers and restores our faith in the theatre as an artistic power in our society.
By Dennis Magnusson
Directed by Öllegård Goulos
Set design & costume Ulla Kassius
Lightdesign Tomas Fredriksson, Peter Moa
Make up Linda Boije af Gennäs
Sounddesign Mattias Björnström, Jonas Redig
Dramaturgy Lena Fridell
On stage Anette Bjärlestam,
Mats Blomgren, Pamela Cortés Bruna,
Ylva Gallon, Rasmus Lindgren, Lars Väringer
Music & on stage Stefan Abelsson,
Anders Blad, Daniel Ekborg, Bo Stenholm
App. 1 h and 15 min no intermission.
First performance 17 nov 2007. From 11 years old.
What “In the summertime” are you talking about? Dad’s an idiot, my best friend is in love with a dork, there’s something fishy about the boy next door and the only one who really tells the truth is Tomas Ledin. Summertime is short and mostly it rains. Dunya, with an axe in her hand, shows you what she really thinks about paradise – it’s all a lie! What she doesn’t know, is that hidden below the surface of this sleepy summer city are secrets darker than any she could dare to imagine…