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The World Has Been Sad Since Tuesday

A theatre performance filled with movement and magical realism.
A man suddenly gets wings. A group of children get caught in a sea of light. Two people get married, but the bride’s ring finger won’t stop bleeding. Based on three short stories by the master of magical realism Gabriel Garcia Márquez, the question is asked: what happens when man is struck by the great and incomprehensible?

The World Has Been Sad Since Tuesday is a physical performance that plays with the genre of magical realism. We meet characters who experience that which they longed for the most, but absolutely cannot understand. Through subtle, sad and absurd stories, we grapple with the beginning, middle and end of life.

  • CAST
    Jamil Drissi, Joséphine Wistedt, Harón Sánchez, Monica Albornoz
  • DIRECTED BY
    Shari Sabel Strandmark
  • ADAPTED FROM ORIGINAL BY
    The director and the actors
  • SET DESIGN
    Anja Ruehle and Aitor Casero
  • COSTUME DESIGN
    Anja Ruehle
  • SOUND DESIGN
    Katharina Stenbeck
  • MOVEMENT DIRECTOR
    Joséphine Wistedt
  • MAKE-UP
    Lena Strandmark
  • DRAMATURG
    Eva-Maria Benavente Dahlin
  • LIGHTS
    Angela X
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
    Eva Catarina Olausson
  • GRAPHIC DESIGN
    Andrea Devia-Nuño
  • ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
    Monika Wade
  • PRODUCED BY
    Simon Revilla/aliasTEATERN in collaboration with Innovadora Stockholm
  • With the support of
    Kulturrådet, Stockholm stad, Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse, Svante Bergströms teaterstiftelse.