Review: Skymning 41 – berättelsen om Molly och Henry

We are only in February, but you can already predict that Skymning 41 at Lilla Teatern will be one of this year’s theater events.

The novel on which the performance Skymning 41 is based has been proclaimed one of the author Kjell Westö’s best, and it is about time that we see a dramatization of a Westö novel on a Finland-Swedish theater stage again. It has been a quarter of a century since the last time Dragons of Helsinki was staged at Teater Viirus.

Since then, there have been four Finnish productions of Westö’s texts at the Helsinki City Theatre and the National Theatre, but nothing in Swedish for 25 years, so it is an expectant audience, to say the least, who sit down at Lilla Teatern. And director David Sandqvist, only 30 years old this year, who most recently had success with Ronja the Robber’s Daughter at the Swedish Theatre, does not disappoint.

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Vivi Lindberg shines as both Asta Heikel and Ghita Röman. Alexander Wendelin, Antti Timonen, Pia Runnakko and Joachim Wegelius all have several roles on their lot, which they portray convincingly but with humour and a twinkle in the eye. Director David Sandqvist really gets great performances out of his ensemble.

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