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5114 dagar Photo: Ola Kjelbye

5114 dagar

Jury selection

Performance

How is it to have lived in 5114 days? To be almost adult, but looked upon as a kid. Filled with secrets and longing, but at the same time scared to death.

Theatre

Lower secondary school

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8 kvadrat - Kulturhuset Stadsteatern Husby

Jury selection

Performance

The world can be contained in a small space. It can also be hidden in a story that starts here and now. And which shows the warm and tender relationship of two brothers. A story that overflows to all of us who are t ...

Family

Upper secondary school

Lower secondary school

Theatre

Anchors Away

Anchors Away

Performance

Three little people with big dreams of sailing.

Dance

Family

Theatre

Föreställningsfoto med rosa textplatta med texten Artisten - Helsingborgs Stadsteater & Malmö Stadsteater

Artisten - Helsingborgs Stadsteater & Malmö Stadsteater

Performance

The red carpet is rolled out and the foyer smells sweetly of powder and audience expectations. Welcome to the magical world of the theatre, full of glitter, glamour and fabulous wigs! You are about to see a real wor ...

Family

Lower primary school

Lower secondary school

Middle school

Theatre

bild Bak-å-fram-på, bibu 2018, Photo: Lina Ikse

Bak-å-fram-på

Performance

This performance is not selected by the jury but included in Tema Friktionskraft: Teatercentrum presents a tool for analysing performances to encourage a norm-creative approach to artistic work and audience developm ...

Friction

Theatre

Dance

Performance image Beyond Sensation

BEYOND SENSATION

Jury selection

Performance

Beyond Sensation is based on the concept of “creating the new with tradition and building the old with future”. With cooperation and exchange between the two parties, the  future image is portrayed with the present ...

Theatre

Föreställningsfoto med blå textplatta med texten Boll? Boll. Boll! - Mittiprickteatern

Boll? Boll. Boll! - Mittiprickteatern

Performance

Boll? Boll. Boll! (Ball? Ball. Ball!) is a fantastical, playful and physical theatre show about a dream-like world where anything is possible. Where a small red ball suddenly can turn into a mouthwatering cake while ...

Preschool

Theatre

Young Swedstage

Perfoming image Buster Keaton på månen

BUSTER KEATON PÅ MÅNEN

Jury selection

Performance

Suzanne Osten returns to Unga Klara with a play by Gunilla Linn Persson.

Theatre

c/o UNG TEATER - AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON ACTING TRAINING

Seminar

Four persons from four countries meet in a conversation to elucidate and discuss views on theatre for youth and what place it could be given in acting education from an international perspective.

English

Theatre

CREATING PERFORMANCES FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES WHO HAVE THE MOST BARRIERS TO ACCESS

Workshop

Workshops for actors and dancers with Ellie Griffiths (UK) and Natasha Gilmore (SCT-UK)

Circus

English

Funktion

Theatre

De Passant, show image, bibu 2018, Photo: Kathleen Michiels

De Passant

Jury selection

Performance

Some people feel at home wherever they are. Others spend their whole life looking, wandering hither and thither, longing for a place to put down roots and eventually come home to. But what exactly is home? 

Theatre

Dance

DNA - dansa nära anhörig

DNA - Dansa nära anhörig

Jury selection

Performance

Four duets between four actors and their real mothers. It is a performance about distance, closeness, food, limitless love, sorrow, loss and renewal.

Dance

Theatre

Upper secondary school

Föreställningsfoto med rosa textplatta med texten Dunkers Kulturhus presenterar Mellan oss emellan - Kollaborativet

Dunkers Kulturhus presenterar Mellan oss emellan - Kollaborativet

Performance

An immersive performing arts experience for all senses - together we explore a universe of materials whose unique properties bring our hearing, sight, movement and touch to life. A place for presence and community w ...

Dance

Funktion

Theatre

Performance image, East Side Stories, Bibu, 2018

East Side Stories

Performance

"East Side Stories" is a musical based on the true stories and the many encounters with people living in the eastern parts of Helsingborg.

Theatre

Musical

Performance image Fanfiction

FANFICTION

Jury selection

Performance

From her old letters, diaries and family albums, Johanna Karlsson creates a scenic fanzine. In the performance, she cuts apart memories and books in an attempt to create a new story; with a happy ending. Fanfiction ...

Lower secondary school

Theatre

Performance image Fångad i ett nätverk

FÅNGAD I ETT NÄTVERK

Performance

Fångad i ett nätverk is a play to be played in classrooms about exposure online that aim to build safety and confidence between actors and audience. It focuses on the vulnerability for young girls, and boys, in cons ...

Lower secondary school

The school as venue

Theatre

Young adults

Föreställningsfoto med gul textplatta med texten Forever young - Regionteater Väst

Forever young - Regionteater Väst

Jury selection

Performance

The actors need the young audience's DNA to escape their mortality and, as if by magic, the audience's contract is both upside down and perfectly clear. Between skincare routines and karaoke, the three actors tackle ...

Lower secondary school

Theatre

Förhör

Förhör

Jury selection

Performance

Sara hasn’t been to school for over a month. She is tormented by anxiety, which grows so strong that she vomits if she is trying to get anywhere near the building

Theatre

Lower secondary school

Upper secondary school

Game Over, bibu 2016

Game Over

Jury selection

Performance

When ten years old Lisa is diagnosed with a disease, the kind you don´t get well from, her dad comes up with an idea. He develops a videogame designed to help Lisa and the family to cope with the worst of outcomes.

Theatre

Sign language

Glängtan Photo: Ola Kjelbye

Glängtan

Jury selection

Performance

Below the ground, where we cannot see, the trees lead their mysterious lives. They talk to each other, take care of their youngsters, and they might even remember things.

Theatre

Lower primary school

Hela familjen, Photo: Markus Gårdner

Hela familjen

Jury selection

Performance

Poor Leia (yes, she is named after the lady in the bikini in Star Wars) has a secret love who will dump her twice, but she doesn’t know that yet.

Theatre

Middle school

Hemligt

Hemligt

Jury selection

Performance

A performance that aims to, together with the audience, approach the most private - the diary - and examine our innermost feelings and thoughts.

Theatre

Middle school

Hopp och hinder

Hopp och hinder

Jury selection

Performance

About discovering, mastering and living out your inner hobbyhorse. Three hobby horse riders are born in a hockey rink where the hockey sticks quickly transform into three lively horses.

Theatre

Preschool

Lower primary school

Performance image Hear how quiet it is

HÖR SÅ TYST DET ÄR

Jury selection

Performance

Hör så tyst det är as it is, is an interactive experience, for the middle school, created by the performing arts collective Nyxxx, where the audience and actors together create a narrative concert based on sound sce ...

Listen

Lower primary school

Middle school

Theatre

Hugo

Hugo – elak, blodtörstig och jättefarlig

Performance

Having been a tightrope walker, he is of course no ordinary crocodile, and loves to knit and bake. He wants nothing more than to receive guests in his neat little house.

Theatre

Mime

Preschool

Lower primary school

The school as venue

I'm here show image, bibu 2018, Photo: Julia Lindemalm

I´m her(e)

Jury selection

Performance

Ara has skipped school for a very long time now. Because she has been given a room of her own by Virginia Woolf. One billion followers on YouTube, Musica.ly and Instagram can see what she does in there. She can trav ...

Theatre

Föreställningsfoto med gul textplatta med texten Jag tänker på dig - Johanssons pelargoner och dans

Jag tänker på dig (I'm thinking of you) - Johanssons pelargoner och dans

Jury selection

Performance

A gentle voice in the headphones guides us through the library. On the basis of our own bodies, we move through the room in a choreography. Alone and together with others. With assignments we are taken into the wor ...

Dance

Lower secondary school

Middle school

Theatre

Konferenz der wesentlichen Dinge, bibu 2018, Photo: Julius Matuschik

Konferenz der wesentlichen Dinge

Jury selection

Performance

What would happen if you could chose your own family? What kind of freedom would it create? Who would take care of whom? 

Theatre

English

Föreställningsfoto med gul textplatta med texten Lyssnaren - Skuggteatern

Lyssnaren (The Listener) - Skuggteatern

Jury selection

Performance

With great openness and sincerity, it tells the story of a silent child's observations of the world around it. In the audience's headphones, the everyday tones and sounds that we easily take for granted take on new ...

Family

Lower primary school

Preschool

Theatre

performance image mamman, bibu 2018, Photo: Henrik Dahl

Mamman

Jury selection

Performance

A show for social justice activists of all sizes. The little town where we lived only had one purpose. The factory.

Theatre

Puppetry

Middle school

Performance image Mantis and the Bee

MANTIS AND THE BEE

Jury selection

Performance

Mantis and the Bee is based on a story of the first people.  It is a visual, musical, and humorous exploration of /Xam mythology and the origin of life. The performance uses dance, masks, puppetry, Khoikhoi, and Eng ...

Middle school

Puppetry

Theatre

Mellan oss

Jury selection

Performance

What are boundaries, and what do they do to us? Which boundaries can we cross, and are they open to all of us? How does something become boundary-less or boundless? 

Dance

Theatre

Preschool

Performance image Mitatim

MISTATIM

Jury selection

Performance

An unforgettable story of reconciliation, Mistatim is about the taming of a wild horse and the truest of friendships. Under a prairie sky, a simple wooden fence is all that separates Calvin on his ranch and Speck on ...

Dance

Theatre

Mitt kalas!

Performance

I Mitt kalas! firar Jago sin födelsedag. Jago älskar att fylla år, inte minst för att man som födelsedagsbarn får bestämma över alla andra.

Theatre

Preschool

The school as venue

Perfomance image Mizeria

MIZERIA

Jury selection

Performance

The twins Aicha and Ali were born on the same day, in the same family and both carry their postcode as a flag. On each side, they struggle to find their way between pile of pipes, washing times, telemarketing jobs, ...

Lower secondary school

Theatre

Young adults

Performance image Mysteriet på Gården

MYSTERIET PÅ GÅRDEN

Performance

This is an exciting performance that is played outdoors on the preschool / school yard. Three fairy tale archaeologists come to the preschool yard because they heard that a fairy tale had taken place at this very pl ...

Preschool

The school as venue

Theatre

Performance image Nätet

NÄTET

Performance

Agnes is an up-and-coming writer whose debut was a big hit. Felix is an artist who has been assigned to illustrate Agnes’ new book - a horror story for teenagers. They have never met before but now they are travelli ...

Middle school

The school as venue

Theatre

Performance image Ögonvittnen - Lea & Stefan

ÖGONVITTNEN - LEA & STEFAN

Jury selection

Performance

What do you think it was like as a child to end up in a concentration camp during World War II? What places, scents, faces do you think one remember from such an experience? Stefan Zablocki and Lea Gleitman survived ...

Upper secondary school

Lower secondary school

Theatre

Oorlog, show image, bibu 2018

Oorlog

Jury selection

Performance

A balloon, slowly loosing it’s air. Little helicopters falling of a tree. A shower that weeps. An audience that shoots and three soldiers on roller-skates, speaking backwards with shock.

Theatre

Performance image På ren svenska

PÅ REN SVENSKA

Jury selection

Performance

På ren svenska (In Pure Swedish) is a performance that examines what it is to be Swedish. How is a national affiliation created? How does one become Swedish? And who can join the community?

Lower secondary school

Theatre

Performance image, Papper - en ordlös saga om livet, bibu 2018, Photo: Petra Hallberg

Papper - en ordlös saga om livet

Jury selection

Performance

Crumpled paper, folded paper, twisted paper, torn paper; a never ending cycle where figures appear out of nowhere, transform, perish - and are resurrected.

Mime

Puppetry

Theatre

Performance image, Pavlovs Tispe, bibu, 2016

Pavlovs Tispe – ett slag ståuppteater (Norge)

Performance

In cooperation with director Kai Johnsen actor Camara Joof has created a performance with events from Camara´s own life where she sometimes fall short, sometime goes to far.

Theatre

Performance image, Pim & Theo (Danmark), bibu, 2018

Pim & Theo (Danmark)

Performance

It’s a bloody mess in the streets and a moral mess in our heads…

Theatre

English

Rasist? bild

Racist?

Performance

What is it to be a racist in Denmark or Sweden in 2016? Through Facebook the Afro-Danish performer Sara Traore has contacted people with racist beliefs.

Theatre

Föreställningsfoto med gul textplatta med texten Raised on rhythm - Unga Dramaten

Raised on rhythm - Unga Dramaten

Jury selection

Performance

Raised on Rhythm is a bodily total experience where dance, rhythm and music seamlessly intertwine to create a playful, explosive, energizing universe. From the audience's own heartbeat, the dancers take us on a wind ...

Dance

English

Lower secondary school

Theatre

Rapport från ett omklädningsrum, bibu 2018, Photo: Chrisander Brun

Rapport från ett omklädningsrum

Jury selection

Performance

Dreams, shower gel and sexual harassments – what is really going on in a locker room? What wellknown and untold stories are hidden among sweaty socks and wooden benches?

Theatre

REPRESENTATION, CREATION AND INSPIRATION

Seminar

Glad Theatre has taken the initiative to create a series of international artist residencies in which they invite artists who inspires them into spaces of creation and exploration. Their first artist residency was c ...

English

Funktion

Theatre

Revolution, bibu 2016

Revolution

Jury selection

Performance

Revolution is a performance about hair, liberation and identity. It is a modern fairytale about the bond we have to our families, friends and loved ones.

Theatre

Performance image, Rhapsody in Black, bibu, 2016

Rhapsody in Black (USA)

Performance

Rhapsody in Black follows one man´s spellbinding personal journey through an underprivileged childhood in the ghettos of McKeesport, Pennsylvania to teenage experiments with crime and drugs to scholastic achievement ...

Theatre

English

Riddare av tusen äventyr

Riddare av tusen äventyr

Jury selection

Performance

An unreal campsite, a girl hike and a collective dream. PotatoPotato creates a show based on the Swedish Girl Scout movement.

Theatre

Lower secondary school

Shakespeares hjärtslag

Shakespeares hjärtslag

Performance

Shakespeares Hjärtslag (Shakespeare’s Hearbeat) is based on William Shakespeare's play Pericles. Using a number of selected scenes and rhythmic lyrics, music and songs from the the children/young people are invited ...

Theatre

For pupils with learning disabilities

Funktion

signalisterna, bibu 2018, Photo: Jonas Jörneberg

Signalisterna

Jury selection

Performance

"The Signalists" are part of the three-year project named Stafetten, where Masthuggsteater collaborates with students at Sandeklevs school in Bergsjön.

Theatre

Dance

Preschool

Lower primary school

Six drummers på Operaverkstan, bibu 2016

Six drummers på Operaverkstan

Jury selection

Performance

Where does music begin, and where does it end? What does silence sound like? What do you hear?

Try

Musical

Theatre

Föreställningsfoto med gul textplatta med texten Snattaren - Ung Scen Öst

Snattaren (The Snatcher) - Ung Scen Öst

Jury selection

Performance

Alejandro Leiva Wenger's clever play Snattaren (The Snatcher), directed by Martin Rosengardten, is a thrilling story with references to The Usual Suspects. It captures the audience from the first moment and keeps th ...

Family

Middle school

Theatre

Snubben lättar på sitt hjärta

Snubben lättar på sitt hjärta

Jury selection

Performance

What is masculinity? Are there different types of masculinity? A stage performance in which we can follow a group of guys who try to understand themselves, each other and the world.

Theatre

Lower secondary school

Upper secondary school

Stora drömspelet

Performance

Kliv in i drömmens egendomliga, fantasifulla och roliga värld!

Theatre

Performance image Stora drömspelet

STORA DRÖMSPELET

Jury selection

Performance

Stora drömspelet is a show for everyone who still got a childish mind left. Erik Holmström has together with the ensemble created a spectacle for the youngest audience. I Stora drömspelet, the audience gets to step ...

Family

Preschool

Puppetry

Theatre

Performance image Stranden

STRANDEN

Performance

The set design is adapted with custom-made seating for the audience, and newly composed music is performed live on stage by the actors. The show is built up in several layers to be able to communicate with children ...

Funktion

Theatre

Stranden

Stranden

Performance

Stranden is based on the poem "Dover Beach" written by Matthew Arnold and the audience is invited to the scenery where the poem takes place, a poetic beach café by the sea.

Theatre

For pupils with learning disabilities

Funktion

Show image, bibu 2016

Teater Smuts startar punkband - Motståndsstrategier i ett fascistiskt Europa

Jury selection

Performance

What happens to us when uniforms are replaced by polished politicians and who is responsible for the wave of fascist victories around Europe?

Theatre

Musical

The Ballad of the Apathetic Son and his Narcissistic Mother

The Ballad of the Apathetic Son and his Narcissistic Mother

Jury selection

Performance

This high-energy performance exposes the inherent narcissism that is at the centre of motherhood and how this becomes a burden to the child embarking on adulthood.

Dance

Theatre

Middle school

Lower secondary school

Upper secondary school

English

Performance image Tigern i magen

TIGERN I MAGEN

Performance

Tigern i magen is written by the comic book author Sara Hansson and is presented in collaboration with Banditsagor. With the help of a picturesque world of sound and a dollhouse-like scenography, we are moved into a ...

Family

Preschool

Theatre

Performance image, Törnrosa, bibu 2018, Photo: Sandra Lee Pettersson

Törnrosa – den enda sanna kärlekens tid

Jury selection

Performance

After a hundred years of sleep, the beautiful princess is about to be awakened by “the one true love’s kiss”.

Theatre

tyst performance image bibu 2018, Photo: Lyad Kamel

Tyst

Performance

This performance is not selected by the jury but included in Tema Friktionskraft: Teatercentrum presents a tool for analysing performances to encourage a norm-creative approach to artistic work and audience developm ...

Friction

Theatre

Performance image, Ursäkta, bibu, 2016

Ursäkta, skulle ni kunna svälta lite tystare, vi försöker faktiskt skapa lite ekonomisk tillväxt här borta!

Jury selection

Performance

Four people up in the clouds. Here, money is nothing but numbers.

Theatre

three persons holding hands

Vahák

Jury selection

Performance

The performance Vahák - violence - takes place in a reality where colonial and homophobic violence act together.

Dance

Theatre

Musical

Vår klass, bibu 2016

Vår klass

Jury selection

Performance

The play Vår klass tells the story of ten teenagers in a small Polish village in 1925 and through the nazi and sovjet occupations all the way to this day.

Theatre

English

Performance image Vara

VARA

Performance

Vara is a performance with humor and imagination where the audience gets to follow Hamlet's grief and frustration for the first time in her parents' divorce. The audience gets to see her try to take power over a sit ...

Lower primary school

The school as venue

Theatre

Performance image Våra viktigaste vuxna

VÅRA VIKTIGASTE VUXNA

Jury selection

Performance

In the adult world, it is common to like and think about children, but the year when the children's convention became Swedish law, Angereds Teater became the perspective and let the children like the adults. What ar ...

Lower primary school

Theatre

Föreställningsbild

Vårt förakt för svaghet

Jury selection

Performance

Theatre

Vilka är ni?

Vilka är ni?

Jury selection

Performance

Both humorous and serious. A theatrical performance for all the family. The audience encounters characters from the plant and animal kingdoms of the forest in an absurd and poetic performance.

Theatre

Lower primary school

Middle school

Föreställningsfoto med grön textplatta med texten Whizz, whirr, bang, clang! - Teater Viirus & Hav-Anna Company

Whizz, whirr, bang, clang! - Hav-Anna Company & Teater Viirus

Jury selection

Performance

Whizz, whirr, bang, clang! is an exceptionally well-composed entirety and a place for sensory experiences, imagination and philosophising. The heartfelt and witty performance meets the audience with curiosity, empat ...

Family

Lower primary school

Middle school

Theatre

Sagan om Sverige, bibu 2018, Photo: Linn Saalbach

​Sagan om Sverige

Performance

​Sagan om Sverige is the meeting between the Swedish actor Jörgen and the young, Syrian poet Daniel.

Theatre