“What the hell is an artist for if you don’t do what you want?”
With this question, Marie-Louise Ekman summarizes the theme of the playful performance “Still Life” in a press release. The piece will premiere on December 11th on the main stage of the Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm and is set in a surreal universe where tears are shed and pretending to speak English and you can’t really trust anything.
Directed by Marie-Louise Ekman the film “Still Life”, which premiered in 1985, starred, among others, Johannes Brost and Örjan Ramberg. When she now goes to the theater stage, it will also be a return to Stadsteatern, where her theater career began in 1968.
At Stadsteatern, Marie-Louise Ekman was responsible, among other things, for the script and direction of performances such as “I fru Vennermans fall” (1994) and “Goodnight Herr Morris” (1997). During her long career in cultural life, she also worked as a professor of painting and rector at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm and as CEO and theater manager at Dramaten.
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