ACT AS IF is a rythmical game with the rules and structures that applies within the classroom.

In a Dogville atmosphere and in an absurd and tragicomic language it deals with the questions- How to become in relation to each other and in relation to the rules and expectations that are put upon us.

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In the preparation work for this production there was an extensive interview work made together with sociologist David Redmalm with high school students in different cities in Sweden.

The interviews covered conversations about how norms are created and how we can rewrite and reconstruct them.

Labelling and diagnosis was a reoccurring subject, and many conversations circulated around wether we became the labels we get, when do they become something that brings freedom and when is it a hinder.

 

In this way we entered conversations around identity, and a transformative becomings. 

A game with performativity in relation to Diagnosis - which bacome the main subject for the performance. 

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This work is a second chapter to the work ”Short interruptions before we continue” but for young audience.​

 

For the age 13 - 15 years old.

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