THE WEIR
Conor McPherson
1 F / 4 M
Drama
A handful of single men are all regulars in a remote Irish pub where they in turn, excel in telling ghost stories. Then one day, when a woman named Valerie moves into the neighbourhood, they eagerly compete to impress her with the best story. However, she takes them all by surprise by telling her own ‘ghost story’, which turns out to be true and utterly inescapable.
BY THE BOG OF CATS
Marina Carr
6 F / 6 M
Drama
A dark, poetic tragedy about the strong and stubborn Hester, who was abandoned as a child and now lives on the margins of society, deeply tied to the bog where she grew up. When her former lover Carthage chooses wealth and another woman over her, Hester’s longing for love and belonging drives her toward a violent and inevitable tragic end.
MOTHER PLAY
Paula Vogel
2 F / 1 M
Drama
English text
Amid moving boxes, memories, and temporary homes, a family grows up — and grows apart. A mother clings to the past while her children fight for the right to become who they truly are. Through decades of love, loss, and transformation, the play paints a vivid portrait of the bonds that both tie us together and set us free. A darkly comic family saga about love, survival, and identity.
HOME, I’M DARLING
Laura Wade
4 F / 2 M
Comedy
Every marriage needs a little fantasy to keep it sparkling. But being a domestic goddess isn’t as easy as it looks. In her comedy Laura Wade shows us one woman’s attempts at being the apron-wearing, shirt-ironing 1950s ideal. But behind the chintz curtains, this marriage is not as perfect as it may seem. A play about out-dated domestic ideals.
THAT FACE
Polly Stenham
4 F / 2 M
Drama
A dark, intense family drama about privilege, neglect, and toxic love, That Face follows siblings Mia and Henry as they struggle to survive their chaotic home life. With an absent father and a manipulative, drug-dependent mother, the children are forced into adult roles, blurring boundaries between love, control, and survival. As their fragile world spirals, the play exposes the damaging cost of family loyalty and emotional dependence.
JORDENS SØJLER (THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH)
by Ken Follett / Thomas Poul Bjørn Høg / Lasse Aagaard / Sune Vibæk Svanekier
6 F / 10 M
Musical
Danish text
Set in 12th-century England, the master builder Tom Builder dreams of creating a cathedral the world has never seen before. A dream carried on by his stepson, Jack, and intertwined with the noblewoman Aliena’s struggle for survival and love in a brutal world shaped by power, war, and religious corruption. THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH is a sweeping historical drama about ambition, faith, art, and human determination – and about the price of fighting for something greater than oneself.
JORDENS SØJLER (THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH) ©Juul Fotografi
JORDENS SØJLER (THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH) ©Juul Fotografi
THE 39 STEPS, Himmerlands Teater 2019
by Patrick Barlow (after Alfred Hitchcock & John Buchan)
1F / 3 M
Comedy
English text – Translated into Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish
Richard Hannay is accused of a murder he didn’t commit. In the effort to clear his name and pursued by spies and police across Britain, he must unravel the mystery plot of “The 39 Steps” in a wildly funny adventure, where four actors play dozens of roles at a breakneck pace.
by Henry Shields / Jonathan Sayer / Henry Lewis
2 F / 6 M
Comedy
English text – Translated into Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Danish
An amateur drama society attempts to stage a 1920s murder mystery, but everything that can go wrong does-rops break, actors miss cues, scenery collapses, and chaos escalates into side-splitting disaster as the cast desperately tries to keep the show going
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG ©Karri Lämpsä
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG ©Karri Lämpsä
by Michael Frayn
4 F / 5 M
Comedy
English text – Translated into Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Danish
A theatre company’s attempt to perform a farce spirals into backstage mayhem, complete with collapsing props, jealous tantrums, romantic mix-ups, and nonstop door-slamming chaos. ”Noises Off” delivers pure, high-speed comic disaster as the show falls apart and the actors desperately try to hold it together.
NOISES OFF ©Iisa Manninen – Kuopion kaupunginteatteri
NOISES OFF ©Iisa Manninen – Kuopion kaupunginteatteri
JANE EYRE
by Charlotte Brontë Adapted by Tone Schunnesson
6 F / 2 M
Drama
Swedish text
The young, orphaned Jane searches for her own voice in a world ruled by class, gender and desire. As governess at Thornfield Hall, she meets the enigmatic Mr Rochester, and their love is challenged by the secrets the house holds. Tone Schunnesson’s stage adaptation combines Gothic intensity with modern language and feminist awareness in a poetic tale of freedom, identity and power.
JANE EYRE ©Tone Schunnesson
JANE EYRE ©Tone Schunnesson
JANE EYRE ©Tone Schunnesson