The audience began to cry profusely over Joel Igor Hammad Magnusson's music in the performance "Beauty is Chaos". He set to music poems by Inger Christensen. Now he is writing emotionally powerful songs for "Romeo and Julia", the autumn's major venture at Folkteatern, which is being made as a kind of sing-along performance.
The audience will receive a songbook, similar to a fanzine, explains Frida Röhl, emphasizing that singing is voluntary. Ultimately, it's about meeting and experiencing things together.
I'm also thinking about how incredibly hard it is to be human in 2025. The difficulty can't be skipped over, but it can be overcome.
Beside the young, untainted love, Shakespeare's play deals with violence and spirals of violence and is remarkably topical, she highlights.
Both in Sweden and the world, it feels like masculine violence is escalating right now. It's clear that you can make plays that say it's wrong, but I'm more interested in creating a space for people to engage with the present together.
"Romeo and Julia" premieres on October 4.
