A musical humor show about love, single life and happiness. Based on Liv Strömquist's socially critical and twisted series. By Ada Berger after comics by Liv Strömquist, adapted and directed by Julia Marko Nord.
Press quote:
"The result is a driven performance with charmingly audience-pleasing entrances. Especially when the ensemble is committed to finding love in the people in the audience...
They empathetically portray the intricate issues of love. It's particularly striking when the talking stops and the physics takes over. Extra plus to the portrayal of birds' love relationships. Where Niklas Larsson Lirell shows a confused mimicry beyond the ordinary ...
This is a compact stage production with a whole bunch of new, or at least unspoken, thoughts presented over 90 minutes. Well worth a visit." - Norran
Audience reactions.
"So damn good! Will see it a third time. Don't miss the best show of the year!" - Audience vote
"SO GOOD!!" - audience vote
"Great show 👏go and see it! " - Audience vote
"Love this show. Lots of different scenes that make you laugh even though the seriousness is also there. The transformation into birds is so wonderfully twisted and ingenious. Take the chance and see this performance !!!!!!!!!" - Audience vote
"Absolutely uuuuonderful performance! A great laugh fest with sharpness. So impressed with the actors" - Audience vote
"A great show!!!" - Audience vote
"Thank you for laughter, joy and goosebumps" - Audience vote
"Real energy boost in the November darkness" - Audience vote
"I think love has everything you could ask for! Fun, bountiful, strong, important and absolutely wonderful!" - Audience vote
"Watch it! Entertaining, with a little sharp-eyed edge." - Audience vote
What happens to love when we try to choose a partner rationally? What happens to romance when we only care about our own happiness? And what can we really learn from Glenn Hysén about the single consumerism of our time? And from Britney Spears about the myth of love?
Welcome to a musical and humorous show that holds up a laughing mirror to the present and offers both bizarre and everyday scenes.
Julia Marko-Nord, who successfully directed Rotterdam at Västerbottensteatern in 2022, returns to take on Liv Strömquist's uncompromising, twisted and analytical series about everything from sex, class, power structures and social criticism in general, to feminism in particular.
Liv Strömquist broke through in 2005 with her successful debut Hundra procent fett and has since established herself as one of Sweden's most important cartoonists and cultural personalities.
With books such as Einstein's Wife (2008), Prince Charles' Feeling (2010), The Fruit of Knowledge (2014), The Reddest Rose Strikes Out (2019) and most recently Liv Strömquist's Astrology (2022), she has created a special position for herself as both a sharp satirist and educator.
Her comics have won several awards, have been translated into nearly twenty languages, and have been dramatized extensively. Liv Strömquist also runs the podcast En varg söker sin pod together with Caroline Ringskog Ferrada-Noli and regularly participates in the podcast Stormens utveckling with Ola Söderholm and Jonatan Unge.
TIPS!
DECEMBER 7 - BEHIND THE SCENES - THINKING ABOUT LOVE. Read more>>
OPEN REHEARSALS DURING THE STORYTELLING FESTIVAL,
TUE 17/10, WED 18/10, THU 19/10 AT 16-17.
FREE ENTRANCE BUT TICKET REQUIRED.
Eng: I AM THINKING ABOUT LOVE
A musical and humorous show that offers both bizarre and everyday scenes. Based on Liv Strömquist’s uncompromising, twisted and analytical series about everything from sex, class, power structures and social criticism in general, to feminism in particular.
