Moln

Moln is a circus performance imbued with music and inspired by the life and work of legendary Swedish poet Karin Boye. Its framework is the tale of a collection of individuals living at each other’s mercy in a sort of vacuum between childhood and adolescence. Dystopian, yet life-affirming, it moves between the ordinary and the grand.

This performance is a “dream play” that with a light and poetic touch casts itself between the dark existential abyss and the bright, light clouds that coexist inside all of us, particularly on the brink between childhood and adulthood. Stina Oscarson’s script is an experiment in form, where excerpts from Karin Boye’s poems merge into a seamless universe. These texts will in turn be set to music and sung by the artist Jonathan Johansson.

Based on poems by Karin Boye
Co creative artists: Axel Ahl, Benjamin Beaujard, Elaine Briant och Sara Runsten

Directed by: Viktoria Dalborg
Music: Jonathan Johansson och David Lindvall
Playwright: Stina Oscarson
Set & costume design: Sus Soddu
Lighting design: Sofie Gynning
Magic consultant: Axel Adlercreutz
Makeup design: Sophie Rockwell
Violin and arrangements: Erik Arvinder
Technical production manager: Joakim Björklund
Technical production manager: Stefan Karlström
Production manager: Mette Klouman

Press:

"The poet’s spirit hovers over the stage. Like Boye’s poems, “Moln” speaks to all trembling hearts, young or old, who want to keep the dream of flying alive."
– DN

"Moln is a feather-light dream play filled to the brim with poking Boye melancholy. A narrative, even for a younger audience, with liberating deep seriousness." 
– Expressen

"With acrobatics, poetry and newly written live music, Kompani Giraff beautifully captures a borderland between dream and wakefulness, between childhood and adulthood."
– Svenska Dagbladet

"Stylish and seductive new circus”
– Gefle Dagblad

"A performance that with precise tone hits moods and emotions in Boye's work." /… / "The result is overwhelming, there is not one dead second."
– Danstidningen

"Moln is a living work of art with a range from invulnerability to anxiety to liberation" /… / "it is innovative and fresh"
– Sundsvalls Tidning

Citat:

"It's interesting how humans can interpret so much from what is basically just light and sound. For example, the brain reacts calmly to the color blue, while the color red symbolizes love, passion and anger. I think the endless striving to try to explain the meaning of existence comes up when you watch the performance. Half a high school student sits and watches some actors make movements while music inspired by an author who has been dead for 80 years is played. In some way, the abstract format gives you food for thought about your own life, especially when you have Karin Boye's life story in mind. What is my identity? Is there God? Why?"
– Elev från Blackebergs Gymnasium

Calendar:
See tour dates in our Calendar

Show document:
Download Show Document (PDF)

Trailer:
https://vimeo.com/564155856

Age: from 9 years

In collaboration with
Cirkuslyftet Sundsvall

Bookings:
Axel Adlercreutz
0707148042
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