1. What are you most looking forward to this spring?
2. Which monster would you most like to be on stage?
Josephine Andersson
Opera singer. Currently with “Cinderella” at the Royal Opera.
1. “Tosca” at the Folkoperan, which I missed last fall. Then I’m looking forward to seeing “LOL” at the Malmö Opera and “Die fernen Klang” at the Royal Opera, to name a few.
2. It’s interesting how we can now turn the perspective and follow the events from the monsters’ point of view. Like in the new film adaptation of “Frankenstein” by Guillermo del Toro, where man is the monster. That’s why I wanted to depict the giant octopus Kraken from this perspective.
Different Berg
Actor. Currently with “Macbeth” at Uppsala City Theater.
1. It will be very interesting to see Milo Rau’s “Rage” at Dramaten, what reactions and conversations it triggers in an increasingly tough Sweden, where the government has turned its back on the idea of a solidarity society and culture is seen as a problem. Then “We are Orlando” at the Uppsala City Theater is something I definitely won’t miss.
2. Polyphemus is a monster that we haven’t seen enough of on stage! Fooled and alone with his sheep there on his island and at the same time so thirsty for love and inclined to sing!
Alva Bratt
Actor. Currently with “Rage” on Dramaten.
1. “In the Solitude of the Cotton Fields” on Dramaten’s small stage.
2. I haven’t spent much time thinking about monsters in my life, so I find it more exciting when it comes to the essence – like the raw forest. But I absolutely think Frankenstein will be fun to watch. Mary Shelley herself was exciting.
Ing-Marie Carlsson
Actor. Currently with “Gora rätt” on Ö2 in Stockholm.
1. The drama “The Misanthrope”. What can come of the constellation of Clas Månsson, Jens Ohlin and Hannes Meidal other than something extraordinarily brilliant?
2. There are so many monsters in human form in the world now, are more needed? I could imagine the Hulk becoming huge, strong, and terrifying every time I get angry about injustice, bullies, or people who hurt others. Or a space monster with an insatiable appetite for dictators, warmongers and general human pigs.
Amanda Flodin
Singer. Currently with “Where Have All the Sensible Straight Men Gone?” at Atalante in Gothenburg.
1. The Backa Theater here in Gothenburg always offers innovative shows and the theme of “1984” feels terribly current. For me as a member of the opera company “Man Must Sing”, it will be particularly exciting to see how our in-house director Gunilla J Gyllenspetz portrays the all-powerful dictator.
2. In our polarized world, it would be interesting to see a more complex monster on stage than traditional evil.
Andre Street
Actor. Currently with “Once upon a time there was a house” at the Malmö City Theater.
1. “The Sewing Machine” in the Angered Theater by Yohannes Frezgi, “1984” in the Backa Theater directed by Monica Wilderoth, “Night is the Mother of the Day” in the Malmö City Theater directed by Anna Takanen and Nadja Hjortons with several interpretations of “Fäbojäntan” in Dramaten.
2. Monsters? Yes, give me a person who has stopped being a person, who allows violence, manipulation and weak, pathetic pettiness to dictate his actions. Like many of our world leaders simply. A person’s brutality due to a lack of empathy and love is one of the scariest things there is.
Hanna Kisch
Set designer and costume designer. Currently with “Knocking” at Norrdans.
1. I’m so excited about “Hybrid” by Mille Bostedt at Kontraer – a posthuman musical. Then I wish I was 12 years old and lived in Borås and the surrounding area, then I would have the luxury of watching “I’m a Roar” by Eddie Mio Larsen.
2. It would be wonderful to portray the mermaid in Johan Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel Summer 1985, a creature with a fish tail but far from the Ariel we know.
Christoph Lehmann
Actor. Currently with “We are Orlando” at the Uppsala City Theater.
1. “Three Sisters” directed by Magdi Saleh at the Örebro Theater. Then also “Förspelet 2.0” by Hanna Nygårds at Fri scen at Kulturhuset Stadsteatermn and “Måsen” by Julia Marko-Nord at Teater Västernorrland.
2. This Medusa character from Greek mythology or Næcken from Norse folklore would have been epic!
Efva Lilja
Dancer and choreographer. Currently with “A life as good as rain”.
1. Mette Ingvartsen’s work “Skatepark” in Dansens hus. I have been following Mette’s work for many years. For me, she is a choreographer who continually surprises us and lets us look forward, while at the same time forcing us to debate our inner thoughts, feelings and, not least, prejudices. She unmasks and reveals with gentle warmth even what we didn’t know we wanted to know.
2. The world has no room for more monsters! That’s enough for now.
Helena Lindegren
Actor and author. Currently on tour with the “Big Dialect Show”.
1. For dramas it has to be “Fäbojäntan”. The team behind it has made such crazy and magical productions that my expectations are sky high!
2. Tough question, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’s Monster is the ultimate monster story. My son recently had it in his reading class and I was impressed by how incredibly relevant it is in these AI times. But in answer to the question: Why not the Great Lakes Monster? Could be both a frightening and touching appearance in the loneliness and cold beneath the surface of the Great Lakes.
Rebecca Livaniou
Dancer. Currently with “Deep leap” on MDT.
1. “Black” by Oulouy and “Infinétude” by Alma Söderberg at Dansens hus.
2. I’m drawn to monsters that arise from pressure rather than horror. On stage it would be a body that carries too many expectations, where control and collapse coexist, a monster slowly taking over from within. I like it when music, sound and the dancer’s movements and presence transport the audience into a state in which time and space dissolve.
Julia Marko-Nord
Director. Currently with “Måsen” at Teater Västernorrland and “Miss Julie” at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern.
1. Mille Bostedt’s musical “Hybrid” at Kontrarer, which is about not being at home in the human species.
2. I want to see Cookie Monster, the monster I most easily identify with. I love cookies!
Ingela Olsson
Actor. Currently with “In the Solitude of the Cotton Fields” on Dramaten.
1. I attended Milo Rau’s Pelicot Trial at Dramaten, which was a shocking experience. So I’m very excited to see what he and the ensemble will offer the audience in “Rage.”
2. Medea, Phaedra, Queen Kristina, Joan of Arc, Ulrike Meinhof, Valerie Solanas are or were viewed by many as monstrous. I’ve played them all and it’s clear that I’m drawn to roles with darker content. So yes, there are new “monsters” that I would like to empathize with.
Göran Ragnerstam
Actor. Currently with “Frankenstein” at the Kulturhuset Stadsteatern.
1. “Personkrets 3:1” in the Kulturhuset Stadsteatern.
2. I would like to play the tyrant Caligula.
Helena Sandstrom-Cruz
Director. Currently with “Hekabe” at the Gothenburg City Theater.
1. Milo Rau’s “Rage” at Dramaten. As well as everything on the contrary.
2. Mrs. Sorrow, with her coat full of bats, from Selma Lagerlöf’s “En herrgårdsägen”. A beautiful, wistful and evil monster that comes from the darkness of the soul. I know she got her own play by Nina Jeppson at the Intima Theater in Strindberg a few years ago and I’m sorry I missed that performance.
Simon “Chippen” Svensson
Comedian. Currently with “Unchanged Status”.
1. I don’t know why everyone doesn’t talk about Isidor Olsbjörk at least once a day or at least think about it. I have to try to see his show “Sveriges siste magiker”, even though it only seems to be performed in Gothenburg
2. Maybe a story about a very famous man with tattoos on his face who makes up a horrible story about his mother just to become even more famous. And then everyone believes the lie and the monster becomes uglier and uglier.
Jorgen Thorsson
Actor. Currently with “Frankenstein” at the Kulturhuset Stadsteatern.
1. Ada Berger’s interpretation of David Wiberg’s play “Prayer for idiots”. In the poster, the amazing ensemble has cones on the hood…? Then that’s stupid, right? I just need to hear what’s coming from the heads under those cones.
2. Haha, maybe Dracula! I’m only now realizing that I missed the complexity of Frankenstein – what other monsters did I ignore? To me, Dracula is a guy with extreme canines who sleeps in a coffin, but surely the book is a brick? Truly breathtaking! Next, something for your canines to bite into.
Johan Wahlström
Actor. Currently with “Eurotrash” at Galeasen in Stockholm.
1. “Mother’s Day” at Dramaten, curious about Helena Bergström. But also the set of “Fäbojäntan”. I saw the film in the 1970s and never laughed so much in my life. It didn’t get a gold beetle, did it?
2. Godzilla. I think it’s a challenge to sound like an iron gate.
David Wiberg
Actor, director and playwright. Currently with “Prayer for Idiots” at the Kulturhuset Stadsteatern.
1. “Infinétude” by Alma Söderberg in the Dansens hus. Or “Rage” in drama, always just as exciting to see what happens when Central European geniuses are in town.
2. If I understood SVT’s documentary “Hatet” correctly, Joakim Lundell’s mother is not a monster, otherwise it would be exciting to see her story portrayed on an institutional stage.
Saqib Zabbar
Actor. Currently with “Once” at the Helsingborg City Theater.
1. I have to take five, so cheers! “Invisible Rulers” at Skånes Dansteater, “Det svenska missnöjet” at Helsingborg City Theater, “Atlas Lied” at Gothenburg Opera, “Tre systrar” at Örebro Theater and “Rage” at Dramaten.
2. “Richard III” by Shakespeare, of course. Although maybe he’s more of a villain than a monster? Otherwise it has to be the Audrey II plant in “Little Shop of Horrors” – well groovy Music.
Read more about the stage spring 2026 here.
