DIVAN

Divan, a new play written for Klockriketeatern by one of the most prominent playwrights of our time Mikhail Durnenkov, will premiere in march 2025.

Divan is both a poetic text and a psychotherapeutic detective play, where the two characters — He and She — are simultaneously both victims and perpetrators. She is 15-20 years older than him; she is an actress, and he is a journalist.

This performance is full of sudden twists and turns, psychological depth of the charachters, difficult ethical choices and non-obvious conclusions.

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"My goal as playwright is to make a text that resurrects my long-forgotten enjoyment of a well-made (and acted) story in the theater.

I usually write plays easily and quickly and take a long, painful time to edit and polish them. 

I believe that the author should write a scene in the same rhythm as the actors will pronounce the text, then the lines come out most naturally.  But then the task is not to miss all the possibilities that need to be laid down for the future production. 

It's something like covering a painting with layers of varnish. The more layers the better. It is clear that not all the layers are used by the directors and not all of them are visible in the work, but as a playwright I am sure that they must be there."

– playwright Michail Durnenkov

Actors: Jon Henriksen & Ylva Ekblad