On the table is a flower arrangement decorated with skulls, a memento mori in the midst of bröllopstrivseln. Lars von Trier’s ”Melancholia” is both about the bride’s depressive state of mind and the planet will soon collide with earth. The metaphor of the downfall can hardly be clearer than this big bang, which at the same time illustrates how mankind’s disintegration, in fact, starts from within. So we create all the time the conditions for our own disasters, on both the personal and the planet’s behalf.
To set a psychological science-fiction drama on stage at the same time means a lot of challenges. But in the house of the Sceptre dare, despite the 2017 year musikalförlust in mångmiljonklassen – both new thinking and bet big. Now when you put up von Trier’s great film from 2011, it will be thus, both luxury and lågbudgetkänsla at the same time. The three acts are given at several locations in the house and playing with different forms of expression, where the audience is activated in both movements as the waltz, accompanied by both classical and contemporary music.
in the restaurant with small portions of the wedding menu, while dressed in black wedding planners, rushed to and fro between the långborden. Her sister Klara, a tightly hysterical Malin Mases Arvidsson) trying to hold the fort in anticipation of the bride, Justine (one with compassion absent True Ingermaa Nilsson). Dramatic nature of a chamber play between the two sisters is reinforced by the groom Mikael is just a kringburen doll. But in an ensemble enhanced with non-professional actors and Stefan Sauks dryge Jack to which the video effect is a whole spectrum of vivid supporting roles.
Director Jesper Mases Berglund and his team are common aware of the need to create distance to filmförlagan; the excitement and atmosphere must be built with other methods. Jerker Beckman has translated and edited the script with a local angle. Sometimes beats dråpligheterna over in the farce. But it is surprisingly fun to sit in the middle of the firing line when the bride’s mother, Gaby (a brilliant bitter Åsa Arhammar) the lighthouses of his sarcasms against the marriage of bourgeois rituals. With the Jönköping Sinfonietta at their disposal can be Accomplished to John (Peter Andersson) in addition to go around and brag about an orchestra of 18 musicians instead of the film’s 18-hole golf course.
the form of vandringsföreställning, where scenes are played out in different rooms. We follow the black rope (which symbolically runs through the entire show) like a sluggish liquid mass to the monotonous fateful music with an emphasis on rumbling drums and bleckblås.
instead of Wagner’s world of tonal resolution, as in the movie, Bernt Karsten Sannerud composed entirely other kind of domedagsmotiv and planetbrus with melancholic and minimalist undertones. A fairly generic but still evocative soundtrack during the last act in the premises. But with a more traditional framing at the end, it becomes more difficult to ignore the fact that resources are not quite enough. Sceptre set of ”Melancholia” is a happening that involves, but that talteater reaches not quite up to a striking design.
