Moomsteatern
Mysteriet Kaspar
© Photo by: Photograph: Bodil Johansson
A photograph from Mysteriet Kaspar by Moomsteatern depicting seven performers huddled together on a stage all dressed in blue. The background set is made up from blue buildings, of different types and sizes.
The Tempest
© Photo by: Photograph: Bodil Johansson
A photograph from The Tempest by Moomsteatern depicting a performer lying on sand with her head in the lap of another. The performer lying down has her eyes closed and is wearing a white gown. The other performer is wearing a bright blue outfit with some gold brocade on the shirt.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
© Photo by: Photograph: Bodil Johansson
A photograph from The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Moomsteatern depicting four performers all with their hands crossed above their heads, all are dressed in red.
A Dreamplay
© Photo by: Photograph: Bodil Johansson
A photograph from A Dreamplay by Moomsteatern depicting five performers on a stage huddled around a central character. All the performers are wearing different costumes, including one with a net tutu and feather boa, and another wearing a sandwich board.
MAKT
© Photo by: Photograph: Bodil Johansson
A photograph from MAKT by Moomsteatern depicting seven performers on a stage, all crowded around a desk. One performer is seated and looking at a laptop, and the others are looking on or in animated conversation. All the performers are wearing office wear.
Moomsteatern is a professional theatre company based on seven actors with learning-disabilities, on stage often integrated with non-disabled actors and situated in Malmö, Sweden. Since Moomsteatern was established in 1987, they’ve had the expressed goal to work with artistic objectives, banning all therapeutic and social aims. This means that the focus group is always the audience, the story and the art. The sole aim of Moomsteatern is to produce performing arts of high artistic quality.
The theatre is legally a Foundation, with 15 employees including artists, technical staff and administration. The actors with learning-disabilities are employed on a full-time basis with salaries and conditions of employment based on the collective agreements relevant to the performing arts in Sweden. They are trained at the national Theatre Academy and members of the Swedish Actors Guild. For each theatre production Moomsteatern collaborates with professional guest artists, musicians, directors, scenographers and costume designers.
Moomsteatern does two or three theatre productions each year, and the target groups span from young children, to teenagers and adults. Moomsteatern’s main audience is in Sweden, but they also tour around Europe and the rest of the world.
Contact details
Anna Gustafsson
Producer
Moomsteatern
Olof Palmes plats 1
SE-21444 Malmö
Sweden
Artistic Directors
Per Törnqvist
Online
Email: ticket@moomsteatern.com
Website: http://moomsteatern.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/moomsteatern
Fix You
Duration: 37 mins
Description: A short film by Martin Kullberg based upon the play Fix You written for Moomsteatern by Mikaela Javinger. With Therese Kvist as Sara.
A film about inner pain, severe anxiety, self-harm and hope - the hope that forces us to continue even when we want to let go. About the young woman Sara, who struggles to survive her internal darkness. Shifting between hope and despair, depression and euphoria her way to endure is to hurt herself. A gripping and honest insight.
w English subtitles
Freight: none
Man without Direction
Description: A short film written and directed by the internationally awarded Johannes Stjärne Nilsson and the renowned artists Pelle Öhlund & Nina Jemth in collaboration with Moomsteatern.
Lost to himself and the world, Mr D is drawn into a world of endless corridors, lethal waitresses and talkshow hosts that decapitate their guests. A dark, humoristic and surrealistic journey inspired by Dante’s Inferno.
w English and French subtitles
Freight: none
“Moomsteatern creates a masterpiece”
– Sydsvenska Dagbladet about Compagnie of Strangers
“A strange, surreal, thoroughly unique theatre experience full of surprises and unsettling images.”
– Liverpool Daily Post About Compagnie of Strangers
“A phenomenal ability to in often wordless scenes and expressionistic graphic tableau vivant reach our most fundamental existential questions about affiliation and loneliness.”
– Kvällsposten about Mannen utan Riktning
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