The elderly fisherman Santiago has long been unlucky - he catches no fish. Some villagers mock him, others pity him. His apprentice Manolin urges him to venture further out to sea than anyone else has ever dared, one last adventure to prove that Santiago's glory days are not over.

The Old Man and the Sea

Uppsala City Theater

"And what I remember most clearly is the sound of all the mobile phones. By now many relatives had found out what had happened and started calling. You could see the names on the phone displays. Mothers, brothers, sisters, fathers. For obvious reasons, no one answered."

We are Orlando

In Lena Andersson's August Prize-nominated novel, conversations are at the center, both the dialogues and the inner monologues. On the Small Stage, becomes a performance filled with razor-sharp observations of the most banal essentials – a deep dive into the thankless task of being a human being among humans.Study in human behavior.

Gloria Tapia

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