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When Everything Becomes Content, Everyone Just Wants to Shine

From Svenska Dagbladet · () Swedish

Translated from Swedish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Yael Ronen’s Dramaten production examines the remains of the audience’s authentic selves through a “Sliding Doors” narrative.
  • The review calls the production entertaining and accurate in its observations, but says it becomes more of a numbers show than ensemble theatre.
  • The performance directly places the audience under scrutiny, assigning different wealth levels according to their seats.

At Dramaten, the audience is not merely watching the show. The audience is the subject of the show, and the actors are there to examine it.

Yael Ronen’s production uses a “Sliding Doors” narrative to explore what remains of our true selves. It begins with a quick visual assessment of the people seated in the theatre. Those in rows one through seven are classified as the economic upper class, with estimated fortunes of “between 20 and 100 million kronor.” People in the second balcony, by contrast, are assigned “zero assets.”

The logic is simple: the closer to the stage, the richer you are. The review describes the result as entertaining and sharply observed, but argues that the production ultimately resembles a sequence of numbers more than a true ensemble performance.

The production is directed and written by Yael Ronen and features Mustafa Al-Mashhadani, Björn Elgerd, Electra Hallman, Bianca Kronlöf, Ia Langhammer and Lindy Larsson.

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Originally published by Svenska Dagbladet 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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