The Hard and the Soft – Taable
Det hårda och det mjuka - boord
2010
In 1957 the Swedish artist and writer Öyvind Falhström wrote the play Det hårda och det mjuka – Boord (The Hard and the Soft – Taable), a few years after he wrote his well known Manifesto for Concrete Poetry (1953). Fahlström certainly creates his own world where the hardships of life are rendered with a distinct brutality combined with an absurd humor. It is a world in which the borders between the individuals dissolve. They hit, they rub and use each other’s bodies in a way that is distinctly different from most social conventions. Even if other laws rule, it is a world that structurally reminds us of our own. Influenced by the repressing powers to make everything and everybody measurable the individuals consume each other.
Performed at Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm City Theatre (Unga Klara) and House of Dance, Stockholm.
On stage
Rickard Turpin actor
Kirsti Thorhaug actor
Hans Sandquist actor
Eli Ingvarsson actor
Natalie Ruiz dancer
Christian Hillborg actor
Elisabeth Karlsson dancer
Emelie Jonsson actor
Teddy Hultberg narrator
Ivo Nilsson musician (trombone)
Jonny Axelsson musician (percussion)
David Stackenäs musician (guitar, live electronics)
Credits
Original script Öyvind Fahlström
Adaptation Tora von Platen, Johan Petri
Music Ivo Nilsson, Jonny Axelsson, David Stackenäs
Dramaturge Tora von Platen, Magnus Jacobsson
Choreography Natalie Ruiz
Set design Sören Brunes, Karin Wegsjö, Janna Holmström
Costume design Filippa Hanzon
Lightning design Jenny André
Sound design Niklas Billström, Alexis Benson
Set construction Anders Lillis Lindholm, Dan Wernstedt
Film photographer Dan Lepp
Direction Johan Petri
Produced by Alice Collective for Sound&Stage Art in collaboration with Tensta Konsthall, Unga Klara and The House of Dance, Stockholm.