Tjuven (The Thief)
Uppsala stadsteater
June 6th 5:30pm
June 7th 2pm
Borås stadsteater, Stora scenen
The jury’s motivation: The child filled cavern’s eternal sofa bed pours out an endless stream of people and stories as Linus Tunström creates theatre from his father Göran Tunström’s novel, Tjuven (The Thief). This is a deeply personal and absolutely free, bordering on chaotic, adaptation of this tale of dirt, disorder and dreams. In the hands of abundantly capable actors, it emits a chord that ascends to the heavens.
By Göran Tunström
Adaption Armin Kerber
Directed by Linus Tunström
Set design & costume Ulla Kassius
Light design Anders Ekman
Make up & wig Anna Lilja
Spotlight Lina Sundström och Anders Hemström
Original music Rickard Borggård
On stage Emil Almén, Anna Carlson, Fredrik Meyer,
Göran Engman, Tytte Johnsson, Shima Niavarani,
Bengt Nilsson, Crister Olsson, Mats Blomgren
App. 3 h incl intermission.
Première 29 mars 2008
This is a journey from darkness to the light and back again. Ugly Johan loves his cousin Hedvig, one of lay about Fredrik Jonsson Lök’s twelve children with Ida Pripp, the daughter of the shoe store owner. One day, Johan decides to bring himself and Hedvig out of poverty by stealing the most valuable object in existence, The Silver Bible of Uppsala. Johan, in order to achieve this goal, acquires both language and education, but in the process removes himself from Hedvig. Then one day, his past knocks on his door.