Work in progress session at Skeppsholmsstudion with dancer and choregrapher Destiny Af Kleen and director Kajsa Isakson

MÄRIT
A free adaption for stage of Ing-Marie Eriksson’s acclaimed debut novel Märit (1965).
This performance moves between past and present, childhood and friendship, war and time, in a community where not everyone has a place—then or now. Dancer Destiny af Kleen flows through the music, weaving between the story and the forest.

On stage, we see Destiny af Kleen, with music by BK Sannerud and Johan Söderberg, moving images by Johan Söderberg and Beate Poikane, and artwork drawn and painted by Anna Fors. The script is by Malin Nord, with direction by Kajsa Isakson.

Set in the 1940s in the village of Sikås, Jämtland, six-year-old Ingrid and her three-year-old sister Eva form a friendship with Märit, a woman who is an adult on the outside but a child on the inside. In a time when society views those with disabilities harshly, Märit is seen as different, and the village seeks to mold her into someone who won’t stand out or bring shame to her family.
Free entrance.

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