Fredrik Möller

Miss Julie (Fröken Julie)

August Strindberg

07. A Somber Feeling of Happiness

This theme appeared in the 2013 production at Gothenburg City Theatre.

Miss Julie (Swedish: Fröken Julie) is a naturalistic play written in 1888. It is set on Midsummer's Eve and the following morning, which is Midsummer and the Feast Day of St. John the Baptist. The setting is an estate of a count in Sweden. Miss Julie is drawn to a senior servant, a valet named Jean, who is well-traveled and well-read. The action takes place in the kitchen of Miss Julie's father's manor, where Jean's fiancée, a servant named Christine, cooks and sometimes sleeps while Jean and Miss Julie talk.

By AUGUST STRINDBERG Adaptation LUCAS SVENSSON Adaptation and Director EMIL GRAFFMAN Actors FREDRIK EVERS, ÅSA-LENA HJELM, EMILIE STRANDBERG, NINA ZANJANI Extra CLAES-GÖRAN LANS, MY RING, JONAS SCHMIDLREN GULIDFULLIA, ERON Lighting design LINUS FELLBOM Mask KATRIN LIND Sound GUSTAV NORDMARK Dramaturg LUCAS SVENSSON

Hedda Gabler

Henrik Ibsen

05. Parhelion, 08. That Polish Guy, 09. Peculiar

These songs appeared in the 2015 production at Gothenburg City Theatre.

Hedda and Jörgen have barely had time to return from their honeymoon before people from their past unexpectedly show up in the new home.

What would be the start of an orderly life turns into a furious deal with shattered illusions and unrequited longing. In the center is the general daughter Hedda Gabler with two inherited pistols.

The world premiere was staged on 31 January 1891 at the Residenztheater in Munich. Ibsen himself was in attendance, although he remained backstage. The play has been canonized as a masterpiece within the genres of literary realism, nineteenth century theatre, and world drama. Hedda Gabler is a captivating and well-known play from the 1890s that dramatizes the experiences of the title character, Hedda, the daughter of a general, who is trapped in a marriage and a house that she does not want. Hedda Gabler has been described as a female variation of Hamlet.

By HENRIK IBSEN Translation KLAS ÖSTERGREN Adaptation LUCAS SVENSSON Adaptation and Director EMIL GRAFFMAN Actors ANNA BJELKERUD, CARINA BOBERG, ERIC ERICSON, FREDRIK EVERS, DANIEL NYSTRÖM, NINA ZANJANI KST JASRANAN GULLAN GJANGANI, LJANGANI, LENDORPH Sound FREJ OBENIUS Dramaturg LUCAS SVENSSON Assistant to Director FREDRIK LUSTH

The Picture of Dorian Gray

(Dorian Grays porträtt)

Oscar Wilde

02. Departure

This theme was in the 2016 production at Stockholm City Theatre

The artist Basil has found the ultimate object to paint: the young, innocent Dorian Gray. Baselessly in love, Basil begins to paint the masterpiece of his life. His friend the art collector Henry shows up in the studio and gets to see the painting. When he then meets the beautiful Dorian Gray himself, he is as taken as Basil. After that, life changes for all of them.

Not least for Dorian himself.

Intoxicated by the attention, a new world opens up for him. Aware of the power of youth and beauty, he does things he could never dream of. Never let it end! What would he not give for the pleasure and the eternal beauty?

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Fearing the story was indecent, prior to publication the magazine's editor deleted roughly five hundred words without Wilde's knowledge. Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding public morality. In response, Wilde aggressively defended his novel and art in correspondence with the British press, although he personally made excisions of some of the most controversial material when revising and lengthening the story for book publication the following year.

By OSCAR WILDE Adaptation LUCAS SVENSSON Director EMIL GRAFFMAN Actors EMIL LJUNGESTIG, RICHARD TURPIN, RIKARD WOLFF Extra CLAES-GÖRAN LANS Set design and costume JULIA PRZEDMOJSKA Lighting design LINUS FELLBOM Mask MARIA LINDSTEDT Sound MICHAEL BRESCHI

Submission (Underkastelse)

Michel Houellebecq

03. Dreams and Dust, 06. Waltz

These appeared in the 2018 production at Gothenburg City Theatre.

The year is 2022 in France. The Muslim Brotherhood party has taken power with its charismatic leader. The literature teacher François views his own and the contemporary state. How far is he willing to go to make things better for himself? Can the height of human happiness possibly consist in the greatest possible submission?

Submission (French: Soumission) is a novel by French writer Michel Houellebecq.The French edition of the book was published on 7 January 2015.

By MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Translation KRISTOFFER LEANDOER Dramatisation LUCAS SVENSSON, EMIL GRAFFMAN Director EMIL GRAFFMAN Actor FREDRIK EVERS Set design EMIL GRAFFMAN, TOBIAS HAGSTRÖM-STÅHL Costume JENNY LJUNGBERG Mask INGELA COLLIN Lighting design TOBIAS HAGSTRÖM-STÅHL Sound JÖRGEN ERICSON Dramaturg SISELA LINDBLOM

The Rite (Riten)

Ingmar Bergman

04. Stabat Mater, 10. FIN

These was in the 2018 production at The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm

Three successful actors have had an obscene vaudeville show censored. Now they are being summoned for questioning by a judge who seems to want to expose all their weaknesses. The trio of actors live in a dense but destructive symbiosis. After years of international success, their time together seems to be over. But will they really manage on their own? When they show their stage act to the judge, the power lies with the actors and the judge becomes the one who is forced to examine himself.

The Rite (Swedish: Riten) is a 1969 Swedish drama film. It premiered on Swedish television on 25 March 1969

By INGMAR BERGMAN Adaption LUCAS SVENSSON, EMIL GRAFFMAN Direction and Set Design EMIL GRAFFMAN Actor MARIA HANSSON BERGQVIST, JOHAN HOLMBERG, RASMUS LUTHANDER, PIERRE WILKNER Lighting design TOBIAS HAGSTRÖM-STÅHL Costume Design HELLE CARLSSON Wigs and Make Up THEA HOLMBERG KRISTENSEN

Long Day's Journey into Night

(Lång Dags Färd Mot Natt)

Eugene O'Neill

01. A Desolate Place

This was in the 2019 production at Gothenburg City Theatre.

Long Day's Journey into Night takes place in the Tyrone family's summer house for one day in 1912. James, Mary and the two adult sons seek answers to why life turned out the way it did. They confront each other with love and hate. They all have their own truth. Whiskey temporarily alleviates evil, as so many times before. But this night will be different.

Long Day's Journey into Night is a tragedy play in four acts written in 1941–42, first published in 1956. The play is widely considered to be his magnum opus and one of the finest American plays of the 20th century. It premiered in Sweden in February 1956 and then opened on Broadway in November 1956, winning the Tony Award for Best Play.

By EUGENE O'NEILL Translation SVEN BARTHEL Direction EMIL GRAFFMAN Dramaturg LUCAS SVENSSON Actors ANNA BJELKERUD, ERIC ERICSSON, FREDRIK EVERS, JOSEFIN LJUNGMAN, CLAES MÅNSSON Set design and costumes JULIA PRZEDMOJSKA Mask KERSTIN OLSEN Lighting design TOBIAS HAGSTRÖM-STÅHL Sound TOMMY CARLSSON Publisher NORDISKA APS – COPENHAGEN