Review: Figaros bröllop

★★★★

The Marriage of Figaro serves up the bravura of director and Lilla Tearn’s artistic director Jakob Höglund: bodily rhythm and the physical immersion of the actors.

You couldn’t have expected anything less from the direction of Jakob Höglund, known for his comprehensive use of the actors’ bodies, and Sven Haraldsson’s visual set-up. Höglund makes the actors shine. Most recently, Lilla Teatern’s Kris och katastrof i Moominvalley in 2022.

The theatre Lilla Teatern, which has a strong tradition of farce and revue, now serves up a full-blooded farce after a break, when Pierre Beaumarchai’s The Mad Day or The Marriage of Figaro (1778) is performed on stage for the first time. Better known as Mozart’s opera (1786), the story is excellently married with the tradition of slapstick and commedia dell’arte’s physical boasting.

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The story, which originally contained very convoluted subplots, has been cleaned up into a courtship dance of three core couples in Lillan’s adaptation. At the centre of it is the Count, and in the role is Joonas Heikkinen, who has a fine command of gags, i.e. tricks based on physical comedy.

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