Guest performance: Norma Jeane Baker av Troja – Olof Runsten/Dramageddon.

In Norma Jeane Baker av Troja, we meet Helen of Troy and Norma Jeane of Los Angeles – two iconic figures, separated by millennia but bound together in myth, beauty and guilt. Anne Carson’s text becomes a dramatic tapestry where anachronisms expose the contemporary fixation on the feminine as a projection surface and scapegoat.

The play is based on Carson’s drastically humorous and mythological-poetic language – where the destructive power of romanticized beauty, the absurdity of war and the logic of toxic masculinity are put in sharp relief. Here the image of the feminine icon with a thousand faces emerges, and of a society that returns again and again to war as an idea and solution.

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