Name: FORES(T)EMPEST Malmö performance
Start: 2025-03-27T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-03-27T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Barnens Scen

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Fores(t)empest performs in Malmö
Thursday 27th March at 19:00 hrs
at Folkets Park [the beautiful round performance space at Barnens Scen]
FORES(T)EMPEST is an original, unique, multilingual, multidisciplinary stage play, using two actors and two dancers. A story-telling and lyrical performance, primarily in English, based on and re-inventing Shakespeare’s The Tempest with a timeless, contemporary twist.
Swedish/French theatre company Theatre In-Balance is taking Fores(t)empest on an international tour, making a brief stop in Copenhagen for 2 days after performing in Paris and then in Malmö in 2025.
The play first premiered at Skillinge Teater Sweden in 2023.
Fores(t)empest is inspired by Argentinian folktale, by the book THE DEEP by Rivers Salomon and Laurie Anderson's poetry.
Using 2 experienced, strong Swedish/British character actors,
2 argentinian/ italian dansers to create an original, powerful and beautiful story of movements, magic and adventure. The theatre form also uses dialogue but focuses on story-telling, object theatre and elements of puppetry and mask.
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Fores(t)empest is a performance written, choreographed and directed by Mariana Araoz, international theatre director and Professor of Mask, Object theater and Puppetry, who has created a unique theatrical style based on her renowned physical and object theater technique, the ©In-Balance Method for actors, dancers, theatre-makers, musiciens, circus performers.
Mariana teaches her method in national drama schools the world over, including as Professor at Teaterhögskolan Malmö, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, l'École du Jeu (Paris), The Conservatoire de Paris, Columbia University in New York, (previously) Boris Shchukin’s Institut in Moscow, Hong Kong Theatre Academy and more.
Theatre In-Balance is a Swedish/French theatre company with branches in Malmö Sweden and Paris France, est. 2016, its own theatre space in Paris and affiliated to renowned mask company Collectif Masque Paris.
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ABOUT THE PLAY Fores(t)empest
Did you know that 40 million years ago under the sea there was a forest of birch trees?
Follow the tale of Miranda, herself trapped on a remote, magical island, with an overbearing father Prospero and a lump of precious amber, as she deliberates between 2 princes – one of them Prince Caliban. Follow Miranda below the waves where she meets an alter ego Anahi, trapped inside a tree...
Discover a tale of the merpeople under the sea and a power struggle between nature and artifice, where only re-awakened memories and the discovery of a shared language will perhaps prove the way forward.
Fores(t)empest carries the audience on a dramatic thematic journey between land and sea, using Shakespearean text, Latin American traditional fairy tale and modern Detroit's legends blended with puppetry, object theater, physical theatre, sound and movement, to create a folk tale of our time.
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*Like all the work of director Mariana Araoz, this colourful performance piece is strongly influenced by traditions from the world of puppetry, mask, dance and drama.
ON STAGE: Nils Peder Holm, Vanessa Poole; Corrado DiLorenzo, Nidia Martínez Barbieri.
FORES(T)EMPEST first premiered at Skillinge Teater Sweden in 2023 and is now touring to Lund, Malmö and Paris as well as Copenhagen in 2025.
(Not recommended for ages under 13.)
*WITH THANKS FOR THEIR FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO
Region Skåne, Lunds Kommun, Konstnärsnämnden and Stenkrossen Lund in Sweden, as well as the City of Paris and la MEG/ Collectif Masque.
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