Theatre day is where you buy a badge for 40 crowns (4£) that gives you entry to various performances and rehearsals. I met up with Renzo and Åsa at Kafferösteriet at 2:00pm with pretty low expectations. I had been the year before and it sucked. . . amateur and youth theatre at it's worst.
But this year was another story. First we saw a dress rehearsal of Ibsen's The Wild Duck at Teater 23. It's a heavy play and the suicidal/enigmatic ending was flawlessly rendered by the chamber cast. My favourite line from this play is when Hedwig tells about a book she has seen from London:
-Jag såg döden med en timeglass, och en jungfru (I saw death holding an hourglass, and a virgin)
The laden symbolism got even stronger at the open dress rehearsal of Chekhov's Cherry Orchard by Malmö's Dramatiska Teatern. To top off a fine day was some edgy scenes from Pinter's American Football. Loneliness, Disorientation and Interrogation were the strong themes set beside a trombonist and an array of digital efects.
It was all fantastic theatre! Later that night I introduced Renzo, Åsa and Calle to a little drink I have termed the Gammel Danskini. Instead of a twist or olive, you use a nip of Gammel Dansk to spice a vodka martini - the perfect end to a magical, and quite political, theatre day.
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