DIRECTOR
Maken
Maken
SCENOGRAPHY BY JOHANNA MÅRTENSSON
Lena Mossfård
BY
Gun Britt Sundström
PLAYWRIGHT
Ninna Tersman
SCENOGRAPHY
Johanna Mårtensson
LIGHT
Sofia Linde
MAKE UP
Linda Goncalves
PHOTOGRAPHER
José Figueroa
Maken (swedish for Husband) is a play based on a book by Gun Britt Sundström about a young man and woman in the sixties who tries to find a way of living together without following the norm.
It is a very intellectual play and I wanted the scenography to give the actors a physical challenge, to amplify the ups and downs and the complexity of the relationship. I designed a hybrid of a roller coaster and a bed, covered with mattresses, with the classical mattres fabric. The actors could jump, run, fall, fight and crawl on the mattresses which really helped the actors to perform this story in a fast forward and playful way. In act 2, when the relationship starts to get very complicated, they take the mattresses of leaving the bare bed like a skeleton. And in act 3, that we call the divorce act, they take the construction apart, leaving it as fragments / islands on the stage. This gave them very different restrictions to work with, from soft and playful to harch and hard.
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