A recently separated ladies' magazine reporter, a young couple who are in love, an unfaithful but jealous crane driver, a longing father and his unknowing daughter, the home coming fisherman's son who seeks reconciliation with his parents, the farmer who thirsts for tenderness. We meet them all in Svenska hjältar, a modern saga about the chipped heroes of everyday life.

Expectations

Comic hit performance from Dramaten with a star-studded ensemble and Johan Rabaeus in the lead role. Misery and confusion, genius acting and nocturnal hardships are mixed into irresistible entertainment. It was Molière's plays in particular that were early hits in ballrooms all over Europe. His theater group Illustre Théâtre, which he ran from the age of 21 with his partner Madeleine Béjart, rented ballhouses in both cities and the countryside. The ball houses, both temporarily and permanently rebuilt, paved the way for spectacular performances for a wider, mixed audience. And it was precisely in a ball house exactly 250 years ago that the first Swedish opera premiered, performed in Stora Bollhuset in Stockholm on January 18, 1773.

The Miser

A meeting between two old ladies on a tourist trip. Lillemor is polite and a bit naive, while Barbro is demanding and challenging.