Anna's story

It was a girl! The disappointment was unmistakable – the father’s disappointment. The mother, who had just given birth, was overjoyed at her child. In secret. The child, who was named Anna, was born in southern Sweden on an icy January night in 1929. Anna could be your mother, or mine. Anna would have been a son. The son would take over the farm – the large farm that had been in the family for generations. Thus begins the play about a woman’s fat...