Anja Suša, who has international directing assignments, is leading the production of Tove Ditlevsen's eclectic, autofictional trilogy. According to Svenska Dagbladet, the theatre makes memories from the past reformulated into an elusive now. The production features innovative staging techniques, with every scene created as a gestural figure.
In one key moment, the little girl Tove's fringe comes loose, and when it is placed on the mother or brother, other actors take on the poet role and fantasize the scene we see. Another scene shows 20-year-old Tove, a maid in a Hitler-loving bourgeois family, crouching under a table and describing the cramped space as her maid's room. The entire ensemble holds Tove like a marionette in her first childbirth, where she stands alienated before a small bundle of cloth representing a child.
It is a complete fireworks display of scenic incidents when Anja Suša enters Tove Ditlevsen's universe.
The exact date of the production and how audiences or critics have received it remain unknown, as do specific international assignments Suša has undertaken. It is also unclear if there are upcoming shows or tour dates, or what other works by Ditlevsen have been adapted for the stage.
Suša, who besides her own international directing assignments is a professor in theatre direction at Stockholm University of the Arts, could use 'The Copenhagen Trilogy' at Intiman in Malmö as a prime example of the possibilities in scenic design.
Everything in Ditlevsen's eclectic, autofictional trilogy can be transformed into physical forms.
The theatre makes memories from the past reformulated into an elusive now.