Based on: We just obey - a story about the employment agency by Roland Paulsen

Puppet players: Andrea Edwards, Nils Dernevik, Malin Morgan, Märta Lundin and Erik Holmström.

Helper: Linus Wincenth.

Concept and puppets: Erik Holmström

Scenography: Erik Holmström and Emelia Carlsson

Dramaturg: Sofia Westerlund

Sound design: Erik Rask

Producer: Anna Jonsson Björck

Performance length: 2 hours including intermission.

Premiere: April 27 at Malmö Puppet Theatre.

Played there until June 1, 2015.

Played on tour:

November 16 and 17, 2015 at Stora Teatern in Gothenburg.

November 19 to 22, 2015 at Teater Tribunalen in Stockholm.

March 11 and 12, 2017 at Gothenburg City Theatre.

At the Malmö Festival 2017 we offered exclusive excerpts from the debut performance Functional Stupidity. *Andrea Edwards, Malin Morgon and Sandra Stojilkovic

The performance Functional Stupidity is the employment service on a shrunken scale, based on the reportage book We Just Listen - a story about the employment service by sociologist and labor critic Roland Paulsen. The book is an in-depth study of people who in different ways maintain a system that few actually believe in. Read more about the book here.

Using a large number of backdrops and perspective paintings on a scale of 1:2, a model world is shown that is familiar to most people. We follow the doll Roland in his study of the employment agency; the strategies of the employees, the structure of the bureaucracy and the morality of the working society.

The lines in the performance consist of authentic quotes from staff meetings and interviews with employees at the employment agency, but also with managers, politicians and a former CEO.