Theatre Listings

Swede Hollow, in St Paul, Minnesota USA, is a park and neighbourhood these days, but in 1897 it was a slum in an industrial city, where poor Swedish immigrants lived between back-breaking shifts in the gritty factories that powered the US’ economy. Ola Larsmo’s 2016 book, which takes its name from the slum, chronicled the […]

Erika Sheffer’s play The Fundamentals opens with a vision of luxury, a New York hotel at the top end of the range, the destination of choice for the city’s richest classes. Then it swirls down into the depths of the hotel, where the cleaners and other mistreated, underpaid staff on the sharp end of the American […]

Photo:  Saga Berlin HR When Umeå rapper Cleo and dance collective JUCK come together, what do they do? They put together a feminist performance that blends hip hop and high-art dance performance. Cleo is the founder of FATTA, an organisation that works against sexual violence, and bringing this performance on tour is the latest of […]

Battle of Angels was the first play written by Tennessee Williams to be produced, which opened in 1940 and flopped. Later, Williams reworked it into Orpheus Descending, a play that sticks to the classic Tennessee themes of passion causing chaos and violence in previously small, quiet lives. And like another Tennessee classic, it later became a […]

KonstAB (Filip Aladdin, Ossian Melin and Anton Hellström) may not consider themselves theatre people (Aladdin: “I have limited experience with theatre. I think it gives us freedom, because we don’t know all the rules”), but their surrealist ‘Total’ plays have caused some of the biggest stir of any theatrical pieces in Sweden over the last […]