21–23/11
Norma Jeane Baker av Troja av Anne Carson

Helen of Troy meets Marilyn Monroe in an audiovisual tragedy for our time.

Doors 18:30 ● On stage 19:00 ● 80 min ● SWE

NORMA JEANE BAKER AV TROJA
by Anne Carson

i översättning av Lars-Håkan Svensson

In Norma Jeane Baker of Troy, we meet Helen of Troy and Norma Jeane of Los Angeles – two iconic figures separated by millennia, yet bound together by myth, beauty, and blame. Anne Carson’s text becomes a dramatic tapestry, where anachronisms expose contemporary society’s obsession with the feminine as both projection and scapegoat.

The play draws from Carson’s sharply humorous, mytho-poetic language – where romanticized beauty, the absurdity of war, and the logic of toxic masculinity are laid bare. We see the image of the feminine icon with a thousand faces, and a world that persistently returns to war as solution, as idea, as inevitability.

Text, image, and spatial composition unfold into an unpredictable dramaturgy of poetic and cloud-like imagery – an audiovisual tragedy for our time, directed by Olof Runsten.

Olof Runsten is a theatre director with a BFA from Stockholm University of the Arts (StDH, 2017). In his work within the contemporary experimental theatre field, he combines different artistic forms where visual and auditory elements play a central role. Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is created by the artistic team behind Marthas Hus (2024) and continues their work with audiovisual theatre in dialogue with Anne Carson’s text. Previous works include: Seasons (2024), Romantiken (2023), Bergfiktioner (2022). Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is created by the artistic team behind Marthas Hus and continues their exploration of audiovisual dramaturgy.

Anne Carson was born in Canada and now lives partly in Iceland.

Cast: Actor TBA
Text: Anne Carson, translated by Lars-Håkan Svensson
Direction: Olof Runsten
Scenography & Costume: Tove Dreiman
Light & Video: Christoffer Lloyd
Composition: Andreas Huumonen
Mask: Emma Eastop
Produced by: Dramageddon
Supported by: The Swedish Arts Council, Region Halland, City of Stockholm
In collaboration with: Turteatern, Inkonst, Skogen

→ www.olofrunsten.com