“Victoria Benedictsson”
“Theatrical skäggfeminism open the festival.”
“Cecilia Djurberg see the ”Forbidden entrance” at the Victoria Benedictsson festival”
“we Have not got anywhere, one might wonder, when the male genikulten at the theatre are once again reminded in the news. Well, it has we actually. In several places in the theatre world is a continuous struggle, to question, brotta down and bury the male genius – and not only to place more women in the limelight, but also highlight them in other ways than in the past.”
“At Strindbergs intima teater has been working Anna Pettersson systematically dekonstruerat classic portraits of women, fought with Strindberg’s view of women and, inter alia, arranged an alternative, feminist Bergmanfestival.”
“To Strindberg’s intima theatre now hosts a tvåveckorsfestival dedicated to the writer Victoria Benedictsson is a logical continuation of this conscious work.”
“nFörst out at the festival are monologue, Prohibited the entrance, Pettersson directed, in cooperation with the Gothenburg city theatre, where it premiered in February. This portrays Mattias Nordkvist in the kongenial semi-drag Victoria Benedictsson based on her diaries. With a full beard worthy of a Shakespearekung and inknölad in Benedictssons black, long, narrow 1800-talsklänning, he makes an interesting, theatrical testing of her person. Marks the hesitant step, hold your breath, the screws in the hands and appears to be equally uncomfortable and trapped role as Benedictsson itself seems to have been. “
“She is that, due to its time standards, wrote their books under the male pseudonym Ernst Ahlgren, and at the end of his short life, which she finished with a razor in a hotel room in Copenhagen, led by both physical illness like mental pain.”
“”I will go and haunt on earth,” she describes her existential crisis and the suffocating existence and towards the stage set backdrop of bright gardinlängder projected filmed drönarvyer where Nordkvists frustrated Benedictsson squirm on a field. On stage he writes frantically chosen, manifestation nyckelrepliker while the sound of the crunch is amplified dramatically. A thunderous fan rips the tag in the manuspapper so that they flutter across the stage and the roar drowns out the words.”
“it is in these expressionistic scenes of the play’s strength lies, while some monologpartier unfortunately tends to tip over in an unnecessarily high tempo, so that the voice and expression is stressed rather than embodying the stress. The point remains, however – it is not easy to be a woman. However, compared with the end of the 1800s, we can remind ourselves that it still moved a little forward. Also at the theatre.”
“nVictoria Benedictsson-the festival is happening at Strindberg’s intimate theatre until 7 april.”
“Victoria Benedictsson”
“Director: Anna Pettersson”
“production Design: Anna Pettersson and Max Mitle”
“In the role of: Mattias Nordkvist”
“Scene: Strindbergs intima teater”