Gunnar Eklund's storytelling performance - a free interpretation of Torgny Lindgren's story "I Brokiga blads vatten".
"One day when Aunt Lydia was standing at the kitchen table - yes, it was during the war and she had just cooked three legs of pork from which she was going to pick the meat - Prince Eugene himself knocked gently three times on the door before entering. Aunt Lydia had no idea who it was and called out: 'Stay! Stay! Prince Eugene immediately stood to attention, but it wasn't him she was shouting at, but at the Danish dog Lola, which she had received in lieu of payment from a thief from Boden who had stolen the Bygdsiljum..."
What truth there is in this - that Prince Eugen would have come to visit Aunt Lydia in Norsjö - is not so easy to know as her nephew, and also the author of the story, is called Torgny Lindgren. He once wrote to Gunnar Eklund that "one should not be restrained when lying."
We at Västerbottensteatern are very happy that Gunnar Eklund will return with this "Torgny performance" this opening fall at Sara Kulturhus. Few actors have interpreted Torgny Lindgren's texts and characters as often as he has. Everything from Skrävel Jani in The Serpent's Way on the Hill to the story of Tailor Molin, which was also filmed for TV. And now, ten Torgny productions later, we proudly present When the Prince Came to the Village - a free interpretation of In the Water of the Broken Leaf - a colorful story about life and love of art.
Press release:
It's an endearing story about odd people in a boarding house in the shadow of the Second World War. And that's where the emphasis
lies in Gunnar Eklund's interpretation. As usual, he gets most things right. Alone on stage for an hour, many characters to enter and exit - and yet he never gets in the way. It is always the text that has the main role. - VK 26/2-2019
ENG:
Torgny Lindgen is one of the regions 3 literary giants. När prinsen kom till byn is a colorful story of how Prince Eugen, a skilled artist, arrives in Norsjö where he meets a well-known local painter, Herman Andersson. Perhaps not an entirely true story, but then as the author himself proclaimed - "One should never restrain when lying".
