Sissela Kyle is back with a new, personal "My show about my mother". For years, Sissela Kyle has had the idea that her mother's time on earth would be suitable for a stage version.
Now it's time for the new "My idea of mother". Gunhild Kyle was born in 1921, the same year that Swedish women came of age and gained the right to vote. Her life was in many ways typical of a woman of her time. A girl during the Second World War, the first in her family to graduate from high school in the forties, educated and married in the fifties, a homemaker and full-time worker in the sixties, and divorced in the seventies. Like many other women in Sweden. Ticket here.
But Gunhild was also a pioneer in her research on women's conditions, making her the first Nordic professor of women's history.
- Gunhild Kyle was a brilliant, funny, dark and furiously angry person. I want to tell you about her struggles and her deeds, her anguish and her fervor. I want to tell you about what it was like when she became old and blind and in need of help and how she fought for her dignity, to continue to be a human being to be reckoned with until the end. That's what I want to tell you about," says Sissela.
- In the past, I've mused and joked about death and lists on my shows. Now it's time to see time through my mom's eyes, which sometimes also happen to be mine. What happened? How did it happen? Why did it happen? I will be both funny and serious.
Like mom, says Sissela.
The show on at the Rival 26/1, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4. Tickets here.
