A sparse christmas tree, probably northern Europe’s risigaste, droops a little for himself on the South of the Theatre scene, when the audience greeted by a genuinely julhatande julvärd. Sven björklund’s figure Lars Stenberg from Älvsbyn do not really know why he should talk – ”where I come from, we keep the trap shut” – but because he still has chosen to julvärd after a series of deaths, we now know quite a lot about his julvägrande christmas traditions.
When Olof Wretlings Manganese after several attempts, finally makes his entrance in the right place, stollig, the stable boy, too little stjärngossesärk and with all lussesånger that disappear out of my head, and summoned the christmas spirit … not at all.
kind of antijulshow that the gang behind mom’s new guy bidding on, the Umeåproducerade humorprogrammet as the year 2005 began to be broadcast in the Swedish Radio P3. In 2016, they took the concept to the theatre stage with the set ”A foundation of knowledge”, and in the years touring with the new ”mom’s new guy is celebrating christmas at random” in a smådeppig, allmogestiliserad samkvämslokalsscenografi by Frederic Eklöf and Niklas Rudolfsson.
To celebrate christmas at random means a lot of high-quality nonsense (and some just nonsense) with the deliberately aimless and haphazard jultematik. Permanent bisittaren Pite-Patrik involved inside a människostor bang, Lars Stenberg makes cirkustrick with its two mysterious dödsmetallfriserade stjärngossevarelser to pets, Sofia Wretling dancing in tap shoes with a air of american comedian Amy Sedaris to view the rim on the juklappar with muddled and confused content. Of course, we will meet with the audience as a muscle builder Thunder (Mattias Fransson) and nycirkusartisten Katla (Olof Wretling), which in finalnumret makes up for with a jesuskomplex of biblical dimensions.
MNK-the gang have cleverly sanded until its signature style when it comes to the genre of ”making men” and many of the characters are so established that they are long before they opened the mouth can make the audience start to laugh. A cohesive narrative, it has not really bothered about this, but simply set up a comical christmas dinner with a variety of dishes in a line one after the other. When the presenter Bengt Strömbro, at one point commenting that ”a certain amount of saturation to appear” I am inclined to agree with on a dramaturgical plan.
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contribute right Bengt Strömbro. His trivseldjupa radioröst and samtalsuppehållande programledarfrågor asked with an almost neutral expression on his face creates a calm and permissive atmosphere for the human shortcomings and odd behaviors. We must meet the difficult types, to mirror ourselves in them and take part of the little man’s great fantasies, or illusions on the verge to burst.
throughout the evening, overall, it has a nice lågmäldhet in the middle of all the nonsense makes ”mom’s new guy is celebrating christmas at random”, in a time when statusstress and perfektionspress can easily rise above grantoppen, rather than give both a redemptive skrattpaus, and a quiet grace. And just maybe the christmas spirit turned up in all cases?
