Stina Kajaso and Sissel Romme Christensen were given free rein at Malmö Dockteater in the fall of 2022. Inspired by the horror film The Descent, they built The Cave.

"I'm basing my work on the film The Descent by Neil Marshall and John Lennon's worst screaming period meets a bottomless cave."

Using horror film attributes and references, Stina Kajaso created a work that was both visually and thematically packed with details and images that relate to film history. But amidst the staging of yet another female murder with a knife, everyday situations emerge that are at least as frightening as a horror film.

Sissel Romme Christensen's cave is projected in the form of animated charcoal drawings that "eat up" all the light in the room, piles of bone fragments pile up on top of each other. Grey-painted plastic encapsulates the audience and, like a technical marvel, walls and ceilings collapse around the audience, making room for the laconic final scenes where the caveman reaches the campfire and the final fantasies about how death finally takes one.

Grottan will be performing at Turteatern in Stockholm in December 2023.

The cave is made of

From and to: Stina Kajaso

Scenography: Sissel Romme Christensen

Lighting design and technology: Olivia Grefve

Sound design and technology: Mattias Alheim

Music: Eyal Shachar

Decorative carpenter: Jonas Truedsson

Production Manager: Ingrid Långström Einarsson

Producer: Agnes Rosenberg

Thanks to:

Cathrine Bjørndalen and Ebba Petrén