Dramaten actors stop the show before it even begins
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- Dagens Nyheter reviews Dramaten’s autumn premiere, “Fake,” starring Bianca Kronlöf as a feminist podcaster and Lindy Larsson as a fading singer.
- Critic Jacob Lundström says the production blurs the boundary between fiction and the actors’ real identities, ultimately becoming trapped before a wall of mirrors.
Bianca Kronlöf plays a feminist podcaster. Lindy Larsson plays a singer whose career is in decline. But “Fake,” Dramaten’s first autumn premiere, raises a more unsettling question: is the play also staging negative fantasies about the actors themselves?
The production disrupts the usual agreement between performers and audience about what belongs to fiction. Instead of allowing that boundary to remain secure, it repeatedly draws attention to the people onstage and the identities they bring with them.
Dagens Nyheter critic Jacob Lundström writes that the show eventually gets stuck in front of a wall of mirrors. The image captures the production’s central tension, as its fictional roles turn back toward the actors who perform them.
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Originally published by Dagens Nyheter in Swedish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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