Month: February 2023

Shape Up

Come and watch the digital performance Shape Up, being projected by Teater Jalada!
Three characters A, E och N live in Nydala and Nydala is where their story takes place. The three struggle in different ways with their inner conflicts, with marginalisation and a lack of hope for the future. However the strength of both their own and their joint identity allows them to hope for a future where they will be able to come into their own– each in their own unique way.

Come along and meet the three of them,  in a video walk around Nydala. Perhaps you will re-discover Nydala in a new way, or perhaps you will recognise yourself.
The performance mixes Swedish, Arabic, English, Romani and Kurdish. Shape up is for audiences aged 13 and up and can be understood by monolingual as well as multilingual speakers.

Kvinnolinjen/The Line of Women 

– a one-woman show about a family trauma

One glittery curtain, five empty chairs and a family history.

Actress Eva Ekengren plays the role of herself, her mother, her maternal grandmother, her great grandmother and her daughter and invites us to a meeting place beyond space and time, in order to edge together towards a hidden family trauma and perhaps even find resolution.

A humorous and steeply layered one-woman show built on Eva Ekengren’s own family history, where the deeply personal becomes a part of the deeply universal human condition. A female history we are all a part of.

Regissören Nina Jemth Öhlund talks about the performance:

“This is a story of stunted strength and the struggle to reconquer life. To unhesitatingly dare to believe in a change is possible. So, with warmth and humour, we extend an invitation to you dear public to witness a unique line of women, in the way all women are unique, but women who nevertheless reach out to one another across all boundaries.”

From the audience:

“Eva Ekengren is a brilliant comedienne who makes us laugh, cry and takes our breath away. A highly personal history which by daring to go all the way, becomes a universal story so many of us recognise ourselves in. Great theatre and a true transformative work! WATCH IT!” /Tina Q

”Blown away by yesterday’s premiere of the performance ”The Womens’ Lineage”. “So gripping, genuine, intimate, with love, objectivity and humour. It prompted many questions about my own lineage and how important it is to see and heal one’s history. Go see it!” /Cicki D

“A warm and heartfelt thank you for The Line of Women”.  Fragile and strong all at once. Was moved to tears.  Wish that many young people, especially young men, get the chance to watch it.” /Göran B

On stage Eva Ekengren

Idea and Script Eva Ekengren

Director Nina Jemth Öhlund

Costume Elin Adler

Light/sound Martin Kullberg

Mini song café
 – excerpts from Simply Opera’s performance series and song cafés on the theme of” The School of Love”.
Simply Opera presents songs from our performance series and song cafés on the theme of ”The School of Love”.
Love can be expressed in different ways, beautiful, infinite. Experiences of love vary from person to person, everything from floating on rosy clouds and finding ‘the one’, to hopelessness, apathy, desperation, the mundane.
In this mini-song-café we allow our characters to express their experiences in song and text describing different aspects of love and playing out different scenarios.