SATAN by Iggy Malmborg (SE) in coproduction with Frascati Producties

Satan

In SATAN, Iggy Malmborg tells the supposedly true story of his short life and his problems in six chapters and a prologue. It's a bumpy road that takes him from a deeply Christian family in the Swedish countryside, through friendships, sins, and homelessness, to the theatre. It unfolds a story of a hero who tries to become a villain but fails.

SATAN could be seen as a homage to the ancient form of oral storytelling, where a solo performer’s body and voice are the sole means to bring the audience to faraway places. But at the same time, something or someone lurks in the shadows....

SATAN is dedicated to the function of illusion. Illusion is a momentary, pleasurable escapism but also an elemental tool for creating stability and wholeness in reality itself. Whoever dedicates oneself to the subject of illusion must also talk about truth. In the cosmos of this piece, truth is an instance that reveals itself in a structure of fiction.

Iggy's aesthetic style in his previous works is characterized by fragmentation and repetition. But in SATAN, he will, for the first time, tell a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end in exactly that order. But what does it mean to tell a story? Does this act ever go beyond the mere event of self-design?