Name: Anna's story
Start: 2026-02-21T15:00:00
Location: Performing Arts Sörmland

Riksteatern

Loved, hated, praised and mocked. Sara from Karlstad became Zarah Leander to the whole world.
Loved, hated, praised and mocked. Sara from Karlstad became Zarah Leander with the whole world. She was the highest paid film actress of her time and an internationally celebrated singer. Worshipped. Not least in Germany, during the dark reign of the Nazis. Something for which she was also questioned at home in Sweden.

Zarah

Järfälla Cultural Stage, Järfälla

Sundsvall Theatre, Sundsvall

The People's House, Sånglarkan, Smedjebacken

Berga Theatre, Åkersberga

Årsta People's House Theatre

Joar Blue, Enköping

Eskilstuna Theatre, Eskilstuna

Falköping City Theatre

Gällivare People's House

Härnösand Theatre, Härnösand

Kalix People's House

Tallås School Auditorium, Katrineholm

Kulturum Theatre, Märsta

Pigalle Cultural Center, Nässjö

Folkan Theatre, Örnsköldsvik

Storsjö Theatre, Östersund

Nordanå Theatre, Skellefteå

City Theatre, Skövde

 The Weave Scene, Umeå

“I have no words, actually!” – that’s what the chairman of the municipal board once said when the news came. The news was one of many that followed the rounds surrounding Boxholmsost.
This is a story about a society that refused to give up. A fight for more than a dairy product – about identity, pride and faith in the future. Playwright Ivar Waldemarsson, known for the success Jag for ner till bror , gives voice to the story of Boxholm and the cheese. How does a place feel when its identity is taken away? What makes people fight? What does defeat taste like? Four actors from the Östgötateatern with musicians go on tour in Östergötland to meet the audience on home turf

The Cheese Rebellion

Wasagarden, Vadstena

The People's House, Åby

People's House, A-room (Cinema room), Boxholm

Finspång Cultural Center

Saga Theatre, Linköping

Skärblacka People's House

Logen Vidar, Munkbrogatan 13, Söderköping

Cinema Royal, Tranås

Långrådna Community Centre,  Valdemarsvik

The marriage between Hildegard and Jörgen has probably been strained even before the strip club came to the village. But now! No one is left untouched by this incredible addition to the entertainment scene, who is for it and who is against it? As if that weren't enough, Näcken herself is roaming the edge of the forest.

The frustrated Hildegard, played by Anna Blomberg, has her life turned upside down. When she and the dancer Jessica chase the mysterious Näcken, not only does an unexpected friendship arise. She also realizes that the secret she has been carrying will soon be exposed.

In the middle of a small town, everyday life, dreams and longing meet. In Hildegard and Jörgen's combined living room and foot care salon, life goes on in all its quiet confusion, while the new entertainment establishment lures with glamour and promises of something more. And out in the forest, Näcken keeps vigil between nightmare and daydream, between allure and danger.

When the strip club came to the village

Forum Älvsbyn

People's House Happyranda

The Rubber Factory, Värnamo

Citizens' House, A-hall (Folkan), Arboga

Glada Hudik Cultural Center

Kalix People's House, Kalix

Village Theatre, Main Stage, Kalmar

Concert Hall Theatre, Karlskrona

The Theater, Kristianstad

Grand Cultural Center, Ljungby

 Mjölby Culture Stage, Mjölby

Borgen Osby

Christina Kultur, Piteå

Skillingehus, Skillingaryd

Söderhamn Theatre, Söderhamn

 Saga Theatre Cinema, Tidaholm

Växjö Theatre, Växjö

When Dre and Des meet as sixteen-year-olds, anything is possible. The world is wide open and the emotions are bombastic. They share dreams, closeness and their first great love. Many years later, they meet again. They are now thirty-two. Dre has stayed, Des has moved. Everything has changed, and yet the bond between them remains.

In an interplay between then and now, between memory and reality, their shared history unfolds. What happens when the past collides with the present? Does their love belong to the past, or is it still here?

Shifters

Tivoli House, Höganäs

Ritz, culture and activity center, Arvika

National Theatre, Botkyrka

Vasa Theatre, Hedemora

The Theatre, Landskrona

Dergård Theatre, Lerum

The Theatre, Nyköping

Sävsjö Cultural Center 

Citizens' House, Theatre, Vansbro

Vara Concert Hall

About Swedish soldiers' experiences from the war in Afghanistan
They are among us, but few have heard their stories. In The Veterans we meet the Swedish soldiers who served in the war in Afghanistan.
 
It is about being able to trust each other, about volunteering and working hard. It is about the will to make a difference and about moments you never forget. But also about what we are prepared to do to be part of the group, and how we must live with our decisions – and about dealing with the great challenge afterwards – of becoming a “civilian” among others.

The Veterans

Multeum Cultural Center

Citizens' House, Theatre, Arvidsjaur

Rondo, Boden

Westerlund High School, Enköping

Auditorium Air Force Museum, Linköping

Ljustorp Community Centre, Ljustorp

Little Theatre, Norrköping

Wadköping, Teaterladan, Örebro

Frösåkers School, Östhammar

Fifteen years ago, the feared gangster leader and the Janitor's top hitman, the Auditor, disappeared without a trace with a wagonload of gold. After years of searching, the Janitor has now found out where the Auditor is... In Rio, Rio de Janeiro.
The young gangster Sonny is tasked with going to Rio to retrieve both the gold and the Auditor's head. Sonny, who once had the Auditor as a father figure, cannot even in his wildest fantasies imagine what awaits in Rio....

The Accountant in Rio

Center House, Robertsfors

Citizens' House, Vännäs

Finally, the National Theatre is going to make the classic Nils Holgersson's wonderful journey through Sweden ! Not only that - they have managed to cast the main role with Nils Holgersson himself, who has now turned 120! But when Nils is to make his entrance, he suddenly does not appear - he has disappeared without a trace. But the show must go on, the audience has arrived. In his absence, the ensemble begins to stage what they remember of the story and the choreographies and forgotten numbers that were deleted long ago. It turns out that the props in the set have been replaced, that the audience is not just an audience and that the doors to the backstage are open. People from the local area come in.

Mission Holgersson

Halmstad Theatre, Halmstad

Ritz Arvika 

Folkan/Theatre, Kumla

Ystad Theatre, Ystad

An existential dance performance about the philosophy of suffering

The performance is about how we can find comfort in the truth of life's suffering, and see suffering as a common condition of life we ​​all must relate to. How pessimism can be an alternative to self-help and be the basis for comfort and compassion. The audience will experience a performance full of physical and mental striving, emotional music and a vulnerable and intimate expression.

Comfort

Grenna Museum, Gränna

Jönköping County Museum

You can clean up your home, of course, but also your emotions, and sometimes you need to clean up things you don't want everyone to know about...
Renate 61, has just started to dream about life's dessert - retirement with Karl-Ingvar. But life surprises. Karl-Ingvar leaves Renate and suddenly Renate finds herself in the company of a broom and rags. The apartment is to be sold and must be cleaned out. She has 1 hour.

Truths emerge in dirty corners, old grudges are dusted off and new views - new perspectives - are seen through polished windows.

The performance has visualizing sound effects and newly composed music in various genres - country, schlager, pop, happy jazz...

Clean House

Medborgarhuset, Vittsjö

Glömminge Association House

Svängsta Citizens' House

All three refused to make themselves victims. Even as inmates of mental hospitals. Creative women. Artists through life and illness.

We meet the writer Agnes von Krusenstjerna, the artist Sigrid Hjertén and the poet Nelly Sachs and are taken on a journey through their artistry, life and illness. How were these women able to take power over their situation, against the world and institutions, and still maintain their creativity?

The performance is based on Karin Johannisson's book Den sårade diva – om psykets estetics and on Agnes von K, Sigrid H and Nelly S

The wounded diva - about Agnes von K, Sigrid H and Nelly S

Revue Theatre, Ängelholm

 Björnen Cultural Center, Åstorp

Sköldberg & Andréas interpret Swedish composers
Sköldberg & Andréas interpret Swedish composers and perform music by Benny Andersson, Laleh, Ted Gärdestad, Björn Skifs, Håkan Hellström, Lasse Berghagen and others.

The duo met at the Gothenburg Opera in Kristina från Duvemåla in 2014 and have since performed together in musicals, concerts and performances.

Jacob Andréas, from Lerum, has over 20 years of experience on stage and has appeared in productions such as Kristina från Duvemåla, Hair, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Oliver at the Gothenburg Opera. He has also been in The Sound of Music, Rock of Ages, toured with Tomas Ledin and is now touring with the concert Sånger Från Duvemåla Hage.

Thanks for the music!

Hebergs Community Centre, Heberg

The Comedian Cultural Center, Varberg

A musical journey to the green island.
On guitar, five string banjo, tin whistle and with vocals, Dag Westling performs a solo program of Irish and Scottish folk songs mixed with a splash of American old-time.

Dag Westling is an internationally recognized musician both as a solo artist and as a singer and instrumentalist in the music group Quilty. The band is considered one of the Nordic countries' foremost representatives of Irish traditional music. Dag Westling's genuine feeling for Irish music finds multifaceted expression in his instrumental virtuosity and emotional singing.

Folk songs from Ireland - Dag Westling solo

People's House, Sala

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 fate during the 20th century. Camilla Arvidsson has drawn a strong portrait of a life and a time that was marked by great changes.

Anna's story

Performing Arts Sörmland