Wednesday the 12th of March. Today I
went and looked at a theatre play with my friend Niklas von Lüders (actor,
studied at Calle Flygare Teaterskola). It was about a 29-year old Hilda who
works as a psychiatric nurse and takes care of her old mother (who always
complains about everything Hilda does). Hildas best friend is the slightly
older Kathryn, who just is getting divorced and likes date sites and alcohol.
The play was much about criticism of our mental health care system, but mainly it was very funny and comic.
In a
interview with the director Sissela Kyle, she sais that she thinks the author
Chris Lee has written a funny, absurd and humanistic play, that she feels tells
a story about the enormous loneliness. All people in the play are terribly
lonesome and are not able to do anything about their situation. Everyone except
Hilda and her friend Katheryin, who have each other. Their friendship is unsentimental
and quite tuff but deep and real.
The play
was very amusing and had many good points about how we nowadays prefer to pump
people full with medicines instead of listening and actually trying to help
people. But the story was slightly slow and for me the direction was a bit
unclear and sometimes I felt that quite unnecessary things were put in, which
only slowed down the tempo of the play. But I had many good laughs and could
recognize many people in the play, so I think it was worth watching.
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