Heterofil – en heterosexuell kaberet (Heterofil – a hetero sexual cabaret)
Teatr Weimar
June 3rd 8pm
June 4th 8pm
June 5th 6pm and 9pm
Scandic
The jury’s motivation: Few theatre groups in Sweden are better than Teatr Weimar at living up to the Brechtian adage of giving their audience something to go home and think about. In play after play they unmask the hidden power structures of language, those that, consciously or not, define our social norms. In this “heterosexual cabaret”, the gender hierarchy implicit in our daily speech is masterfully twisted and turned in a word game for three actors.
By Christina Ouzounidis
Songlyrics Lisa Linder
Directed by Christina Ouzounidis
Composer Olle Linder
Light design Johan Bergman
Assistant to the director Isak Rynell
On stage Sandra Huldt, Petra Hultberg and Pia Örjansdotter
App. 1 h and 15 min no intermission.
First performance 26 sept 2008.
Language has the power to normalize or to marginalize behavior, appearance, and action, and it can direct our feelings and control the way we view our world. Through language we can marginalize the normative or normalize the marginal. The words black, woman and homosexual will from this moment be replaced with the words white, male and heterosexual.