Den bergtagna (Within a Mountain Locked)
Teater Galeasen / Strindbergs Intima Teater / Limbo
June 5th 7pm
June 6th 2pm and 6pm
Borås stadsteater, Lilla scenen
The jury’s motivation: Den bergtagna is Victoria Benedictsson’s lightly disguised story of her relationship with Danish literary critic, Georg Brandes. In the glow of an oversized tile oven, women and men of the Victorian age are testing their modern ideas concerning freedom and love. A mixture of social satire, chamber of horrors and tragedy performed with a detailed sympathy for the esthetics of melodrama.
By Victoria Benedictsson
Directed by Jens Ohlin
Adaption Jens Ohlin och Hannes Meidal
Set design Tobias Hagström-Stål, Jenny Linhart
Costume Inger Elvira Persson
Make up Ulrika Ritter
Light design Tobias Hagström-Stål
on stage Åsa Persson, Hannes Meidal, Andrea Edwards,
Figge Norling, Inga Edwards, Mira Eklund,
Christian Fex, Stefan Böhm, Marie Ahl,
Tove Fylking, Moa Gruneau, Nora Sehlin
App. 1 h and 50 min incl intermission.
Première 24 april 2008.
Den bergtagna is tragedy about someone shadow boxing with herself, about her wild and ever present longing for meaning, about her absurd attachment to her own identity which she uses as a shield against emptiness. The play, unfinished, was found among Victoria Benedictsson’s papers after her suicide in 1888 and was subsequently finished by her friend, Axel Lundegård. On the envelope containing the manuscript Victoria Benedictsson wrote: “I want to live, even if it kills me.”