Oxytocin - Backa Teater

Foto: Ola Kjelbye

The jury’s motivation

Tender and precise puppet theatre with a total focus on the young audience. The expressive puppets and the carefully crafted stage pave the way for approaching the most intimate and fragile issues. The puppeteers navigate with ease through tricky themes such as sex, drugs and puberty. With the help of subtle stage solutions and well-incorporated live music, a story is told about intimacy at all stages of life. It is thorough and heartwarming.

Not everything turns out well, but it goes on anyway.

We are ready to risk everything to get a little closeness. But what do you do when the body is both your best friend and worst enemy?

Oxytocin is a realistic play about being a human of flesh and blood, told through puppets. Inspired by interviews with people of different ages, experiences of and the relationship with the body and its changes are depicted. About puberty, sex, and aging. About being afraid while longing and feeling curiosity in the same moment as being disgusted. Embedded in a recognizable everyday life that contains both vulnerability and cruelty, the grandness in the small is revealed.

Credits

By / directing: Oskar Thunberg

Set designer, costume and mask design: Maja Döbling

Doll maker and design: Jenny Bjärkstedt

Light design: Christofer W fogelberg

Composer: Mats Nahlin, Daniel Ekborg, Simeon Pappinen Hillert

Sound design: Simeon Pappinen Hillert

Cast: Nikola Borggård Gavanozov, Wahid Setihesh, Vivi Lindberg, Malin Morgan, Pelle Grytt/Ove Wolf

Musicians: Daniel Ekborg, Mats Nahlin

Stage technicians: Krister "Kritan" Nylander, Ellen Dynebrink

Assistant director: Märta Jungerfelt

Producer: Lisa Nowotny

Costume: Helena Arvidsson O´Byrne, Ellinor Landahl

Mask designer: Kerstin Olsen, Josefin Ekerås

Props/Attributes: Ellen Dynebrink, Wanja Fernandes Johansson, Charlotte Heyman, Hannele Fernström, Christofer W Fogelberg

Decorative painters: Ellen Dynebrink, Wanja Fernandes Johansson, Colin Ferguson, Hannele Fernström

Dramaturg: Stefan Åkesson

Dramaturg trainee (SKH): Sara Raisse

Build: Krister “Kritan” Nylander, Colin Ferguson

Communication: Erika Isaksson, Anna Hansen

Project manager children and young people, teaching materials: Erika Isaksson

Marketing: Hanna Lööf

Audience developer: Ulrika Andersson